THAC – The Human Aspect

Empower people. Strengthen systems. Build trust.

THAC develops thinking, tools and training on how people and institutions hold together under pressure. Grounded in decades of work in fragile contexts and trauma care, we also offer advice and accompaniment to organisations and processes.

Development or erosion – and for whom? →

Advisory in three fields: Leadership & Strategy → · Governance & Resilience → · Dialogue & Conflict Transformation →

Two tools to start with

• Trajectory Scan → Does your strategy, project or organisation strengthen development – or reinforce erosion? For whom? Puts the Relational Systems Framework to work. Pilot, free to use – feedback welcome.
• Trauma-Informed Organisation – Self-Assessment → For organisations that want to become trauma-informed: check where you stand, see where action is needed and get recommendations grounded in research, guidelines and law. A separate tool from THAC’s trauma work. Pilot, free to use – feedback welcome.

THAC Papers

Working papers and essays that develop the Relational Systems Framework and apply it to leadership, security institutions, development and public debate. Read the papers →

Learning together

Modular training along the three dimensions and with THAC’s tools – from a half-day introduction to a full course – building on more than ten years of teaching at the Institute for Peace and Dialogue in Basel. Training →

Thirty years in the field

International cooperation, peacebuilding and institutional leadership – from Somalia and the Great Lakes to Swiss foreign policy. Peter Urs Aeberhard connects this experience with THAC’s own frameworks, analyses and tools. About Peter →

Contact: peter.aeberhard@thac.ch · Get in touch