Equity, Power and Inclusion – Rethinking Security through a Comprehensive Approach 2026

How are you navigating the current security environment where priorities are shifting towards defence? What is the role of government institutions, civil society and the private sector? How can we have a more comprehensive and integrated approach that values and includes everyone?

This half day online workshop is designed to bring together leaders in peace, security, humanitarian and governance sectors grappling with shifting power dynamics and a focus on defence. It will look at the current challenges through the lens of inequalities, exclusion and power imbalances and the factors that undermine resilience. It will draw on the Nordic experience and approach to ‘Comprehensive Security’ that takes a whole of society approach to look at the potential role of individuals alongside government institutions and private businesses.

The objective is to create a space to share experiences and learn from experts and peers, as well as discover new tools to apply to your context.

Previous seminars have focused on Decolonisation and Localisation; and Peace and Security for Who?

Learning objectives

• Reflect on the challenges you experience in achieving human and state security in the current environment.
• Explore the concepts of comprehensive security and resilience.
• Discover the role that different actors, including governments, civil society and businesses can play in achieving security and resilience.

Modules

Pre-Course: 15 minute Teach Up Module

• Framing, terminology and background
• Your perspectives and experiences

Module 1: Equity, Power and Inclusion – current challenges

10:30 - 12:30

• What are the challenges you are experiencing in your work to approach security and resilience in the current environment?
• What is the role of government, civil society and businesses?
• Examples from different peacebuilding, governance and humanitarian sectors and exchange with peers and experts.
  
   

Module 2: Equity, Power and Inclusion – Understanding and Developing Comprehensive Security and Resilience

13:30 - 15:30

• What does a Comprehensive Security Approach look like and how can it be inclusive and build resilience?
• How could the Nordic approach apply in different contexts?
• Debrief and Closing.

• Practitioners and experts working in peace, security and humanitarian action
• Department/Division Heads and Deputies
• Operational Leaders and Managers
• Heads of Human Resources, Learning and Training

By application only. In your application, please explain what your current inclusion challenges are, and what you hope to gain by attending this workshop.