The course asks a single question in five steps: what changes when you stop treating conflict as a clash of personalities and start reading it as a situation organised by power. You will watch five short videos, read one text, work through two self-checks, and complete four short individual tasks. Two of those tasks are looked at by an instructor, who will leave you written feedback. Nothing is scored. You either complete the course or you do not, and completing it means having done the work rather than having produced the right answers.

What you will be able to do afterwards is narrower and more useful than a general claim about conflict skills. You will be able to identify how power, hierarchy and inequality shape a conflict situation, recognise how communication sustains or challenges dominance, and reflect critically on your own position and responsibilities. These are the competences the Alliance expects of people who go on to work in Living Labs, societal dialogue formats and other community-based initiatives, where you meet real disagreements between people with unequal room to manoeuvre.

The course does not teach negotiation technique, mediation or facilitation. Those are practices that need supervision and practice with other people, and three asynchronous hours cannot provide either. What this course builds is the analytical and ethical groundwork those practices rest on.

You may use AI tools to help you understand the material, check your English or think through a task. What you submit has to be your own work and your own reflection, and you remain responsible for its content. A task that reads as though a tool wrote it will be returned with a request to write it yourself, because the point of the reflective tasks is the reflection.

Each activity shows its estimated time in its name. Every video has captions and a transcript you can download. If any of that does not work for you, write to the course contact address at isanlier [at] cu.edu.tr and we will find another way.