Understanding Enemies

If you don't understand the perspective of the other side, you will make costly errors and may even cause the conflict to worsen unintentionally.

Dr Aisha Ahmad will show you how to see a conflict through the eyes of other people on the ground, including the enemy, in this course. You will be able to see the characters on the ground through alt-lens exercises.

We want to see the enemy as people and not just cartoon villains. This requires us to look at ourselves in these situations.

This course will show you how to use your alt-lens when in conflict. This tool will allow you to understand other people's worldviews and even those that are opposed to yours.

Unpredictability can make it easy for people to behave in predictable ways. No matter what cultural or ideological outlook you have, there are certain patterns that can be observed in human behavior and decision-making during conflict.

This article will explore how violent conflict affects human behavior and how conflict escalates.

You'll build on the conflict map you created in the first course and connect the tools, techniques and methods from both courses to help you better understand the Malian conflict theater.

This course will help you to create the histories, stories, and worldviews for different conflict groups and identify the good and bad guys in each story.