For the last ten years, academic research and policy discourses have shown how much violent conflict and their transformation potentials are both influenced and based on specific roles and stereotypes of women and men and power hierarchies among them. It has become clear that without taking the gender-specific dimensions of conflicts into account, the analysis of conflicts and conflict transformation policies will be distorted, one-sided, if not altogether misleading and false.While referring to illustrative and concrete case studies, the training will introduce and discuss gender-specific dimensions of violent conflicts and conflict transformation as practice. The workshops will illustrate cases of best practice and the most important dos and don