Training and Education
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Visiting Fellowships 2009-2010
The Kroc Institute has a visiting fellowship program. Kroc Institute Fellows conduct research in peace studies, broadly defined. See guidelines for applying.
Applied Conflict Transformation Studies Programme
ACTS is a two year part-time MA course, during which time participants come together for 6 residential seminars. It is run by participating regional centres, and each learning group is recruited from within that region.
It aims to:
- Provide an accessible, flexible opportunity for advanced, practical learning in conflict transformation for people who want to make constructive change happen in their situation.
- Generate and share more widely new knowledge, theory and insights relevant to work for peace and justice in the region.
- Challenge and strengthen existing work for peace and justice by deepening the capacity of practitioners, and their organisations and networks, for complex analysis and strategic activity at all levels.
Resources for Training in Nonviolent Action
List of resources that were shared within one of the online dialogues on New Tactics for Human Rights. The theme of the dialogue was Training in Nonviolent Action.
Training for Change
Since 1992 Training for Change has been committed to increasing capacity around the world for activist training. When we say activist training, we mean training that helps groups stand up more effectively for justice, peace and the environment. We deliver skills directly that people working for social change can use in their daily work.
Living Values education Program
Living Values Education Program (LVEP) is a comprehensive values education program. This innovative global character education program offers a wide variety of experiential values activities and practical methodologies to educators, facilitators, parents and caregivers that enable children and young adults to explore and develop twelve universal values. In addition to programs for classrooms and parent groups, LVEP offers special materials for street children, children affected by war, and children affected by earthquakes.
Peaceworkers UK Courses
Upcoming courses from Peaceworkers UK
Web Para La Paz
World Association of Early Childhood Educators (AMEI-WAECE) are working to set up a taskforce of Peace Education from Early Childhood Education "Learning to live together in peace from early years" all over the World. The main objective of this project is to make available for teachers, pedagogical and methodological procedures to help them instill in children norms, values, concepts and behaviors that foster the attainment of peace and the rejection of violence as essential components of their personality.
Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT), USA
Now in its 10th year, the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) program at the School for International Training (SIT) has trained peacebuilders from more than 60 countries around the world. CONTACT participants are chosen for their ability to take what they use in the program and apply it directly to their current work in their home communities and in war-torn regions of the world.
Irenic Studies - The Graduate Institute Academic Programs
Irenic Studies, named in honor of the Greek goddess of peace, is a 36-credit Master of Arts degree program that embraces the task of creating a peaceful and sustainable world. Its overarching purpose is to shift the paradigm of peace-building from conflict resolution to conflict transformation. Participants explore peace-building techniques that may be applied in interpersonal, institutional, national, and international conflict transformation.
Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships
The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression.
Women’s Human Rights: Building a Peaceful World in an Era of Globalization, May 22 - June 29, 2007
The Institute brings feminist perspectives and an active orientation to the inextricably related issues of peace, human rights and life-sustaining development. Participants will gain an understanding of the local and global economic, ecological, legal, cultural, and political contexts of this practice, as well as the groundbreaking work that is currently being done and has been done over decades by women and men around the world. Important milestones such as the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, The African Protocol on Women’s Rights, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women, Security Council Resolution 1325, the Beijing Platform for Action, and Women’s Action Agenda 21, will be featured. Women’s historical struggles for their adoption, their potential as resources for social change, and effective ways of using them as tools for education and practice will be explored.