The art of preparing a situation assessment

Overall goal:
Developing participants’ political potential and their ability to understand and analyze events, build scenarios and expectations, and identify likely scenarios, as well as developing participants’ skills in political formulation and writing to estimate the situation.
Course topics
 Introduction to assessing the situation (strategic assessment)
 Comparison between the press release, political analysis, and assessment of the situation.
 The elements influencing the political event, and their applications in assessing the situation.
 The eighth cycle of political decision-making, and the scope for benefiting from assessing the situation therein.
 Context Analysis.
 Building vision and perceptions.
 Scenario Building.
 The art of writing a situation assessment.
 Practical training on writing a situation assessment (workshop), by writing models for a situation assessment, discussing them, and making comments on them.
Target groups
 Politicians and media professionals.
 Researchers and students of law and political science.
 Cadres and frameworks of public institutions.
 Those interested in political affairs.