Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Webinar: Participatory Design Processes in Peacebuilding

Participatory or co-design processes have gained recognition in recent years for their ability to engage with stakeholders in developing innovative solutions to problems across sectors.

However, in the fields of international development and peacebuilding, the assumptions upon which participatory design processes often rest must be challenged. How can we co-create with groups that don’t share our cultural framework for understanding the world? How do you reconcile the interests of stakeholders who not only have varying needs, but also vastly different educational backgrounds, language capabilities, and lifestyles? How do you ensure that solutions benefiting one group don’t cause harm to another? Using experiences from participatory design workshops promoting road security in Senegal and Burkina Faso, this webinar will explore the benefits and challenges of working at the grassroots level to co-create local pilot initiatives.

About the Speaker

Kyle Shrivastava is a peacebuilder who joined the PartnersGlobal team in 2018 after founding and leading programmatic efforts at R3SOLUTE, a Berlin-based non-profit focused on reducing conflict in refugee communities. Kyle has also led organizational development efforts at Bosh Bosh Inc., a grassroots women’s empowerment NGO in Liberia and served for two years with the Peace Corps in Senegal. At PartnersGlobal, Kyle works on the Global Initiatives team, helping to develop technical approaches to peacebuilding and global civil society strengthening. He is a graduate of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at Columbia University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bucknell University.