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We provide training to peacebuilding, development and humanitarian partners to enhance their impact

Our EPI courses offer hands-on, expert-led training designed for researchers, students, and professionals from NGOs, donor organizations, government agencies and international institutions. Our courses blend theoretical insights with practical applications, making it invaluable for those wanting to:

  • Use participative methodologies with EPI’s approach to enhance conflict sensitivity in their projects.
  • Design impactful projects and policies that measure community-driven indicators to foster positive peace and sustainable development.
  • Connect and collaborate with a diverse network of practitioners across roles, sectors and regions.

We also design customized training programs to meet the unique needs of any organization. Contact us to explore how we can support your goals.

“one of the most fruitful learning experiences I’ve ever had”

Program Officer,

International NGO
EPI Training Participant

Flexible Learning Options

Online

Face-to-Face

Hybrid

Our participatory approach combines interactive discussions, hands-on activities and structured debates, creating an engaging learning environment that addresses the specific challenges and opportunities relevant to each participant’s work. 

We encourage participants to use their projects as case studies to gain insights that can be directly applied in your workplaces.

Our Courses

EPI Fundamentals Course: Explore the EPI Approach

Ideal for first-time users of the EPI approach and those seeking to apply the approach to project design, monitoring and evaluation.

What is included?

  • Introduction to peace research and measurement
  • Key concepts: everydayness, community and participatory methods
  • Selecting communities and facilitating focus groups
  • The EPI approach:
  • Step 1: Co-creating indicators through focus groups
  • Step 2: Verification and voting of indicators
  • Step 3: Coding and categorizing data
  • Practice exercises with live feedback from EPI staff
  • Introduction to the Grounded Accountability Model
  • Case studies and hands-on learning

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

  • Facilitate the EPI process with local communities
  • Identify, refine and prioritize community-generated indicators
  • Use the EPI approach to design, monitor and evaluate peacebuilding or development projects
  • Analyze indicator data for insights and reporting
  • Prepare for adapting EPI to your organizational context
Register your interest in the next offering of this course.
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EPI Applied Training Course: Integrate the EPI Approach into Your Work

Designed for those with foundational EPI knowledge, ready to customize and apply it in specific policies, programs and projects.

What is included?

  • Step 4: Deploying indicators in project life cycles (DMEEL)
  • Case studies on community engagement and the Grounded Accountability Model in practice
  • Designing community feedback and knowledge return strategies
  • Peer-led focus groups and discussion
  • Conflict sensitivity, ethics and navigating local-donor dynamics
  • Presentation of draft participant interventions
  • One-on-one consultations with EPI trainers

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

  • Tailor the EPI method for your context, sector or region
  • Deploy indicators to guide program design, monitoring and evaluation
  • Build ethical, inclusive strategies for engaging with communities
  • Lead your organization in using EPI for greater accountability
  • Transform community-generated insights into programs, policies and projects that drive meaningful change
Register your interest in the next offering of this course.
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Testimonials

EPI challenges practitioners to actually engage communities where they are, providing an actionable framework to discover issues and the way people make sense of elusive concepts in their daily lives... EPI is a great framework to unlock conversations that may get stuck in the “buzzwords” and empty signifiers that populate today’s international development practice
Thematic AdvisorInternational NGO
EPI Training Participant
Thematic Advisor
The course gave me an excellent understanding of the Everyday Peace indicators methodology and how it could be applied to my organization. The instructors were excellent providing detailed information on very complex subjects but making it as accessible as possible to the participants.... I really commend EPI on the training and I will be strongly recommending to others that they take the training.
Global Programme Development and Quality Assurance ManagerEPI Training Participant
Global Programme Development and Quality Assurance Manager
The EPI course provided me with insights on how to analyze community perspectives in order to effectively track and respond to indicators of everyday peace, enabling more informed decision-making in program design.
Conflict Sensitivity Technical SpecialistEPI Training Participant
Conflict Sensitivity Technical Specialist
If you're looking for an experience that is both meaningful for the communities you work with and deeply enriching for yourself and the organization you represent, the EPI course is exactly what you need. It not only teaches you the fundamentals of the EPI methodology but also shows you how to engage with communities in a respectful, participatory, and iterative way...I especially encourage you to enroll if you're ready to move away from traditional top-down approaches to peace and security...and be part of positive change from the ground up.
Postgraduate University StudentEPI Training Participant
Postgraduate University Student
I can’t recommend the EPI Fundamentals Training enough…We had students, practitioners, and academics from all over the world take part…Community-led indicator generation and participatory, inclusive frameworks just feel like the only sensible way to approach peacebuilding interventions and programming.
Postgraduate University StudentEPI Training Participant
Postgraduate University Student
I have grown not only in skills but also in perspective. The sessions didn’t just teach us monitoring and evaluation, they equipped us to measure peace, amplify impact, and tell the stories of change with integrity and clarity. ... As I return home, I carry not only the skills of M&E but also the encouragement of knowing that I belong to a network that is shaping the future of peacebuilding.
President, Economics Student Association and Peacebuilder EPI Training Participant (Global Unites Summit Doha)
President, Economics Student Association and Peacebuilder

Frequently Asked Questions

Who should do EPI training?
Our training is designed for individual peacebuilding practitioners, researchers, and teams from NGOs or civil society organizations.
Experienced EPI experts lead the course, supplemented by guest lecturers for specialized topics, based on students’ interests and course objectives.
We usually provide some reading before the first session.
Yes. Upon completing the EPI training, participants will receive a certificate of completion.
The enrollment fees depend on the duration and format of the course. Scholarships are available, and we provide a 20% group discount for participants from the same organization.

Previous Courses

EPI Applied Course I September 2025

We ran the EPI Applied Training course with practitioners from around the globe. The course focused on how to customize the EPI approach in specific policies, programs and projects in participants' work and organizations. Stay tuned for more details.

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EPI Fundamentals Course for Global Unites I August 2025​

At the Global Unites Summit in Doha, EPI trained 9 young peace activists from Pakistan, the Netherlands, Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, the United States, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

During the course, practitioners:

  • Explored how to identify and engage communities for participatory research
  • Learned the importance of tailoring approaches to local contexts
  • Examined core concepts of peace research, including indicators, everydayness and the role of the local
  • Practised co-creating community indicators through focus groups, verification and voting
  • Developed inductive categories and coded qualitative indicators
  • Designed and facilitated their own focus groups with support from EPI staff
  • Gained practical experience developing indicators using the EPI methodology
  • Learned about EPI applications in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia and Sri Lanka

Through a mix of in-person and online sessions, participants took part in hands-on, interactive learning focused on the first three steps of the EPI methodology. By the end of the course, participants built practical experience and gained the confidence to apply EPI in their peacebuilding initiatives.

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EPI Essentials for Practice Course I April & May 2024

We ran our EPI Essentials for Practice Training with nine participants from development, peacebuilding, humanitarian and security sectors who were based in Ethiopia, Colombia, Thailand, Norway, the United States and beyond.

During the course, participants:

  • Explored how to identify and engage communities for participatory research
  • Learned the importance of tailoring approaches to local contexts
  • Learned about EPI applications in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Sri Lanka, the USA, and Afghanistan
  • Examined core concepts of peace research, including indicators, everydayness and the role of the local
  • Practised co-creating community indicators through focus groups, verification and voting
  • Applied methods for analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data
  • Designed and facilitated their own focus groups with support from EPI staff
  • Gained practical experience developing indicators using the EPI methodology

This collaborative course gave participants both practical insights and the confidence to apply the EPI approach in their own work. 

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EPI Fundamentals Course I July 2025

We ran our EPI Fundamentals Training with 15 participants from education, peacebuilding, humanitarian, development and security sectors who were based in the UK, Japan, Thailand, Nigeria, Switzerland, Colombia, Peru, Canada, Chile, the United States and beyond.

During the course, participants:

  • Explored how to identify and engage communities for participatory research
  • Learned the importance of tailoring approaches to local contexts
  • Examined core concepts of peace research, including indicators, everydayness and the role of the local
  • Practised co-creating community indicators through focus groups, verification and voting
  • Developed inductive categories and coded qualitative indicators
  • Designed and facilitated their own focus groups with support from EPI staff
  • Were introduced to the Grounded Accountability Model and its Community of Practice
  • Gained practical experience developing indicators using the EPI methodology
  • Learned about EPI applications in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Sri Lanka, the USA, and Afghanistan

Through collaborative sessions, participants explored the first three steps of the EPI methodology and built the confidence to apply it in their own work.

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Course Facilitators

Julianne Funk

Julianne Funk has been EPI’s Project Manager and Research Coordinator in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2021. She is a peace scholar and practitioner with expertise in the Western Balkans, religious peacebuilding, ethnic identity, trauma and healing. She has an MA in peace and conflict studies and a PhD in social sciences from the University of Leuven.

Oscar Vargas

Oscar Vargas has worked with EPI for the past five years. Some of the projects he has been involved in include training civil society organizations in Colombia, leading an evaluation and adaptation of the EPI approach for the InterAmerican Foundation, and co-facilitating the Grounded Accountability Model. Oscar is a co-author of the EPI Colombia report, The Dogs Bark at Night: Everyday Peace Indicators in Colombia (2025).

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