ISS Call for applications: Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course 2025

The Institute for Security Studies, Reos Partners, Phaphama Initiatives and Leadership Pathways have partnered to offer a dynamic training course for South African facilitators and leaders who seek to, or who already, convene and facilitate dialogue and engagements across divides.

If you want the knowledge and skill to successfully design and facilitate engaging, interactive discussions and learn how to work constructively with conflict, then this course is for you.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Power, rank, and identity and how they play out in a process
• ?Listening principles
• How to tackle difficult and sensitive conversations
• Practical ways to design interactive and participant-driven processes

• Table of Content
• About Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
• Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course
• Requirements for Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Institute for Security Studies (ISS)

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is a pan-African think tank focused on human security and sustainable development in Africa. It provides independent research, policy analysis, training, and technical assistance to governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society. The ISS has offices in Pretoria (headquarters), Addis Ababa, Nairobi, and Dakar. 

Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course

Requirements for Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course Qualification

ISS encourage applications from:

• NGOs (especially those working in the GBV sector)
• Government employees
• People working in the private sector
• Researchers
• Donors and development partners

Interview date, Process and Venue for Institute for Security Studies Violence Prevention Forum Facilitation Course

The facilitation course draws on the tried-and-tested methods of the Violence Prevention Forum in South Africa. It is led by expert facilitators Judy Connors, Jabu Mashinini (Leadership Pathways), and Rebecca Freeth (Reos Partners), supported by Dr Chandré Gould (ISS).

The intensive nine-day course takes place over three months, beginning in September and ending in November 2025. It consists of three three-day modules. The course dates are:

• 17, 18, 19 September
• 22, 23, 24 October
• 26, 27, 28 November

Participants who cannot commit to the full nine days will not be considered. Participants are required to do some practical homework between the modules.

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Application Deadline

How to Apply

To apply, submit a letter of motivation of no more than two pages covering:

• Why ?you’re applying and how the course relates to your work
• What you hope to gain
• How will you utilise the skills and knowledge 

Include your full name, organisation/institution, contact details (email, cell and WhatsApp number), and role.

Email applications to [email protected], with the subject line ‘VPF Facilitation Course Application 2025’.

For more details, visit ISS webapage