Peacebuilding expertise. Practical strategies. Collaborative action.

Strengthening peace-responsive programming, institutional capacities and collaboration—from local to global.

What We Do

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior technical support to translate conflict analysis into practical strategies, peace-responsive programmes and institutional approaches. Working with organisations, governments and partners to strengthen conflict sensitivity, prevention and peacebuilding in complex environments.

Humanitarian, Development & Peace Nexus

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Operationalising the “P” of the HDP Nexus. Helping organisations and partners make the Peace dimension practical: connecting policy with programming, building shared understanding and developing approaches that respond to context and support collective outcomes.

Learning, Training & Toolkit Development

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Co-designing accessible curricula, practical toolkits and participatory learning experiences. Translating policy, evidence and field experience into capacities that organisations, teams and practitioners can apply in their everyday work.

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Creating spaces for dialogue, exchange and collaborative planning across institutional and societal divides. Connecting grassroots experience, organisational knowledge and policy processes, and helping diverse actors move from shared understanding to practical cooperation.

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

Helping partners understand what is changing, what is working and why. Bringing together research, evidence and reflective practice to strengthen programme design, capture learning and adapt strategies in support of meaningful peacebuilding impact.

How We Work

A collaborative approach from understanding to action

P&CD brings a collaborative and participatory approach to all of its work—whether working within an organisation or agency, accompanying a team, or engaging the stakeholders, partners and communities they serve.

Read the Reality → Reflect → Co-create → Reflective Practice: Learn & Adapt ↻

01 — READ THE REALITY

Start by listening and understanding. Work with organisations, agencies, teams and stakeholders to understand different perspectives, needs, priorities, existing capacities and the wider factors shaping what is possible.

02 — REFLECT

Create space to think together. Bring organisational knowledge, stakeholder perspectives, evidence and experience into the conversation to question assumptions and explore possible ways forward.

03 — CO-CREATE

Turn collective insight into practical action. Develop strategies, programmes, tools and learning processes together, grounded in the realities of those who will use, implement or be affected by them.

04 — REFLECTIVE PRACTICE: LEARN & ADAPT

Make continuous learning part of the process. Reflect systematically on experience and emerging evidence—what is changing, what is working, what is not, and why—and use learning to adapt and strengthen the work.

P&CD Convenings

Spaces for dialogue, learning and collective action

P&CD will initiate, design and convene spaces connecting practitioners, institutions, researchers, communities and other actors around critical questions emerging from peacebuilding practice.

GRASSROOTS ↔ PRACTICE ↔ RESEARCH ↔ POLICY

Practitioner dialogues — Exploring difficult questions emerging from practice.

Policy–practice exchanges — Bringing institutional and policy actors into conversation with field experience and grassroots knowledge.

Learning labs — Testing ideas, tools and emerging approaches.

Cross-sector conversations — Connecting humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, research and policy communities.

Multi-stakeholder dialogues — Engaging different perspectives, responsibilities and forms of knowledge around shared challenges.

Peacebuilding rarely happens through one institution acting alone. Knowledge should travel in both directions.

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About P&CD

Naghmeh Sobhani

Founder & Principal Consultant

Naghmeh Sobhani brings close to three decades years of international peacebuilding experience, connecting senior advisory work with the practical realities of organisations, practitioners and communities. Her experience spans global, regional and country-level engagement, with more than a decade of global advisory work with UNICEF.

Her work combines conflict sensitivity, peacebuilding and prevention with learning, capacity development, facilitation and collaborative diplomacy. It includes co-designing global programming guidance, supporting organisational learning, and leading large-scale education for peacebuilding work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Through P&CD Consulting, she works alongside organisations, agencies, teams and stakeholders to understand complex realities, bring different perspectives into dialogue and translate knowledge into practical action. Her approach connects institutional processes with grassroots experience, supporting responses that build on existing capacities and remain grounded in the contexts where they are applied.

GLOBAL ↔ NATIONAL ↔ LOCAL
POLICY ↔ PROGRAMMING ↔ PRACTICE

P&CD Consulting

P&CD Consulting

Peacebuilding expertise. Practical strategies. Collaborative action.

PEACEBUILDING & COLLABORATIVE DIPLOMACY

From Insight to Action

What We Do

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Humanitarian, Development & Peace Nexus

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Learning, Training & Toolkit Development

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

How We Work

A collaborative approach from understanding to action

P&CD Convenings

Spaces for dialogue, learning and collective action

About P&CD

Naghmeh Sobhani

Work With Us

Let’s explore what we can do together.

P&CD Consulting

Peacebuilding expertise. Practical strategies. Collaborative action.

PEACEBUILDING & COLLABORATIVE DIPLOMACY

From Insight to Action

What We Do

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Humanitarian, Development & Peace Nexus

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Learning, Training & Toolkit Development

Senior Advisory – Peacebuilding, Conflict Sensitivity & Prevention

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

Convening, Collaborative Diplomacy & Knowledge Brokering

Evidence, Learning & Peacebuilding Impact

How We Work

A collaborative approach from understanding to action

P&CD Convenings

Spaces for dialogue, learning and collective action

About P&CD

Naghmeh Sobhani

Work With Us

Let’s explore what we can do together.

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