Participants included lawyers, government officials, community development workers, human rights and peace advocates, and women and youth representatives from Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and Russia. They gathered together to exchange lessons, experiences and strategies and to deepen skills in conflict analysis and negotiation. Representatives engaged in small group conflict analysis, and negotiation simulations and reviewed policies and cases in particular on land and resource issues. Traditional approaches to reconciliation were reviewed through cases from East Africa and from Bougainville.

Resource persons included indigenous experts from the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, including UNITAR programme graduate, Ms. Megan Davis, who has recently been elected as Expert Member to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as representative from the Pacific region. A senior conflict transformation specialist from Africa also contributed to the programme. The international training programme was made possible through support from the Governments of Canada, Finland and Sweden.