Conflict Dynamics’ Governance and Peacebuilding portfolio is located within the Peacebuilding in Transition States program and focuses on the political accommodation – or mutual conciliation around competing political views and interests – as a key component of peacemaking and peacebuilding. Conflict Dynamics has developed a typology of five focal areas for political accommodation which is being used to explore technical options for governance in transition States. This work is being undertaken in a number of contexts, including Sudan and Somalia.

Conflict Dynamics has identified the following objectives for the Governance and Peacebuilding portfolio:

1. To explore and generate technical options for political accommodation in the Sudan, Somalia, and other contexts;
2. To develop overall frameworks and indicators on governance structures, political accommodation, and peacebuilding in transitioning states;
3. To ‘feed in’ these technical options and tools to local and international stakeholders;
4. To facilitate a limited by targeted dialogue on political accommodation with key interlocutors.