Information Analysis Training Course
AFRICA-Analysis is an analysis and training organisation that specializes in the development of analytic capacity in the public, development and peacekeeping environment. The Information Analysis Training Course is part of our suite of specialized analysis and information product courses, delivered by accomplished and experienced security and policy experts.
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Dec 13, 2010 09:00 AM
to Dec 17, 2010 06:00 PM |
| Where | Cambridge |
| Contact Name | Raisa Cole |
| Contact Phone | +2721 790 9976 |
| Attendees |
The Information Analysis Training (IAT) Programme is a five-day course that focuses on the production of analysis in a multi-functional context, including interagency NGO structures, peacekeeping, humanitarian and political missions, national security organizations, security managers and multi-stakeholder emergency management. |
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COURSE CONTENT
The course consists of three inter-related elements: the framework in which analysis is done, specific analytic techniques, and skills to construct various analytic products. In the course these elements are integrated through individual and group exercises and simulations, culminating in a briefing on a real-life analytic challenge.
Day 1 -
Introduction to key concepts and issues in cognition and analysis
The politico-security information analysis system
Day 2 -
Analytic Techniques: Diagnostic, Contrarian and Imaginative analytic techniques
Scenarios as a tool of analysis and forecasting
Day 3 -
Open Source Intelligence and Social Network Analysis in complex environments.
Day 4 -
Analysis Production: types of products; constructing a good briefing; analysis in an
analytic team framework; dynamics in a multifunctional context.
Day 5 -
Reasoning and Logic in analysis
Presentation of participant analytic projects
Certificate Ceremony
