Conflict Resolution & Social Cohesion

Part of: RESOLVE

For Governments

You want to deliver health services even in conflict zones — without waiting for outsiders to mediate.

Violence disrupts your vaccination campaigns, closes clinics, and drives away health workers. You need proven ways to negotiate ceasefires and rebuild trust. We give you the conflict-health mapping tool and dialogue facilitation training. You lead the peace processes.

✅ You reduce violence-related health disruptions by 40%.

✅ Your polio and HIV campaigns reach previously inaccessible areas.

✅ Your government co-invests 20% → 70% in peace committees.

  • What's holding you back: the health cost of unresolved conflict

    Land disputes between herders and farmers stop vaccinators. Armed groups block supply convoys. You lose years of progress in weeks of violence.

    You've seen this too many times:

    “We were about to eliminate polio — then the conflict started.”

    “We have the vaccines, but we can't get past the checkpoint.”

    “Every time we try to mediate, we need an outsider to lead.”

    We help you become your own mediator. We train your local leaders and health workers to facilitate dialogue and negotiate “days of tranquility.”

    Your Plan — 3 steps you take with our tools

    1. Map conflict and health gaps

    We give you a simple mapping tool. You identify which districts have both high violence and low vaccination rates.

    2. Train your dialogue facilitators

    We provide a 5-day training (in-person or virtual) for your health staff and community leaders. They learn conflict analysis, negotiation, and ceasefire agreements.

    3. Facilitate peace committees and transition

    We co-facilitate the first three meetings. Then you take over. We provide ongoing helpdesk support — but you lead.

For Donors

You want your health investment protected when conflict flares — not watching years of vaccination progress erased in weeks while waiting for an outside mediator to arrive.

It's not a security failure — it's a mediation capacity gap that costs you every time conflict resumes.

When violence disrupts a vaccination or HIV campaign, the usual response is to wait for an international mediator or peacekeeping presence – a process that takes time your health campaign's momentum doesn't have. Every week of delay means more disease spread, more health workers who leave and don't return, more ground your funded program has to rebuild once access resumes.

Local leaders and health workers trained as dialogue facilitators respond immediately, without waiting for outside mediators – meaning your funded campaigns lose days, not months or years, when conflict flares.

  • Your wins with Conflict Resolution & Social Cohesion, as a donor:

    ✅ Violence-related disruptions to your funded health campaigns drop by 40% – a direct, attributable reduction in the risk that erases your program's progress.

    ✅ Your polio and HIV campaigns reach previously inaccessible areas – expanding your program's actual reach, not just protecting what it already had.

    ✅ Local mediation capacity responds in days, not the months it takes to mobilize outside mediators – meaning your investment's momentum survives the next conflict flare-up.

    “Within the training cycle, your local health teams negotiate their own 'days of tranquility' – protecting your campaign's progress in days, not the months it takes to mobilize outside mediation.”

    This is the same co-investment discipline behind every BAROS-AFRICA engagement: government funding for peace committees escalates as local mediation capacity takes hold, so this isn't a service you fund indefinitely through a third party.

    [See our co-investment model]

For Partners

You want your conflict-training curriculum or facilitation expertise built into a sustained local capacity — not delivered once and then disconnected from the peace process it started.

It's not a role-elimination risk — it's a training-to-practice continuity gap.

Organizations that design and deliver conflict-training curricula often have no ongoing visibility into whether that training actually gets used – the 5-day program ends, and the organization has no connection to whether local facilitators go on to negotiate real ceasefires or run real peace committees with what they learned.

Co-facilitating the first three peace committee meetings alongside locally-trained facilitators creates a visible bridge from training to actual practice – something a training-only engagement doesn't have.

  • Your wins with Conflict Resolution & Social Cohesion, as a partner:

    ✅ Your training curriculum is followed by co-facilitated real peace committee meetings – not a training certificate with no visibility into whether it gets used.

    ✅ You see your training's direct impact on a measurable outcome (40% reduction in violence-related disruptions) – a concrete, attributable result tied to your specific curriculum.

    ✅ Local facilitators you trained take over peace committees fully, with ongoing helpdesk support – meaning your training investment compounds through continued local practice, not a one-time session.

    “Within the first three peace committee meetings, your training curriculum is already being practiced in real negotiations – not delivered once with no visibility into whether it was ever used.”

    This runs on the same flexible model as every solution: your expertise builds a capacity that keeps functioning after your direct involvement, rather than depending on your continued presence to have any value.

    [See our full partnership model]