Practical Peace
Transforming conflict within the humanitarian and development sectors

Do you work in the humanitarian or development sector?

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Would you like the tools to be able to constructively handle conflicts with colleagues, funders and local partners?

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Or the skills to build a culture of clear communication within your team that enables both efficiency and resilience?

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Do you wish you had the ability to effectively mediate conflict between team members, colleagues or community leaders?

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I can help you to master these tools, skills and abilities.

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So much time and energy is lost within the humanitarian and development sectors because of conflicts that are ignored or mismanaged.  Tense offices, unhappy teams, competition and distrust between agencies, disconnection from local partners... Despite all the good people in the sector, many of us will recognise and have experience of one or more of these symptoms of unmanaged conflict.  The cost: low staff well-being, high burn-out

and turnover rates, under-achievement of objectives and, ultimately, reduced impact.

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I am Tanya Hubbard.  I'm a facilitator, trainer, anthropologist, mediator and professional

peace-builder. My work over 15 years in peacebuilding and conflict transformation has

spanned China, inner city London, Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Uganda,

Thailand and, for the last 9 years, the conflict zones of Myanmar. 

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I have a vision of a future in which self-awareness and conflict transformation skills are

embedded throughout the humanitarian and development sectors.  Where the well-being of local

and expatriate staff is nourished by mutual trust, a sense of belonging and harmony in the work-place. 

Of connectedness, mutual understanding and honest communication between agencies and teams that

enables effective collaboration and information sharing, enabling local people to be better served.  

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I work towards this vision by providing:

Training courses designed specifically for humanitarian and development workers

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Interventions to build teams and help resolve conflicts within or between teams

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