MINELRES: Workshop: Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation & Post-War RRR, January
20 - 24, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
MINELRES moderator
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Fri Nov 29 15:31:21 2002
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PEACEBUILDING,
CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION &
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION AND RESOLUTION
January 20 - 24, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction,
Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR 2003), is the only five-days
intensive training programme/workshop of its kind, exploring all
three phases of violence and war -- pre-violence, violence, post-
violence -- and what can be done, for advanced practitioners, aid and
development workers, international diplomats, national and local
level politicians, and policy makers.
The PCTR 2003 is designed to help practitioners, policy makers, and
aid and development workers in societies affected, threatened by, or
in a post-war situation. One of TRANSCEND's most intense and high
level training programmes, the PCTR has been created to help
participants strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the
structures and dynamics of war and violent conflict, and skills,
tools and approaches useful for peacebuilding, conflict
transformation, and post-war reconstruction, reconciliation, and
healing.
The PCTR Training Programme/Workshop offers participants an intensive
and stimulating environment in which to address the challenges and
difficulties facing them in their communities and work, and to learn
together with advanced practitioners from around the world. It has
been designed to build upon the best aspects of TRANSCEND's advanced
training programmes for practitioners, together with a working needs-
based approach to respond to the particular situations and needs of
the participants involved and the dynamics of the conflicts in their
communities.
Bridging the fields of theory and practice, the PCTR 2002 will be
highly effective for those working to prevent the outbreak of violent
conflict in their countries/communities, to transform violent and
intractable conflicts towards peaceful and constructive outcomes,
and/or to promote reconstruction, reconciliation, resolution and
healing in post-war situations.
THE TRAINING PROGRAMME - January 20 - 24, 2003
The Training Programme will take place from Monday to Friday, January
20 - 24, 2003 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
The Training Programme will be divided into a Morning and Afternoon
session for each day, combining intensive training, group work,
workshop sessions, and individually designed working modules. There
will be a two hours break for lunch and individual work in between,
and additional breaks for tea and coffee in each session. The
programme will begin each day at 09:00, and run until 18:00.
THE TRAINING SCHEDULE
Monday, January 20
Morning Session: Introduction to the Programme, Trainer and
Participants followed by an Introduction to the TRANSCEND Method of
Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Afternoon Session: The TRANSCEND Method Continued
Tuesday, January 21
Morning Session: Identifying the Challenges: Violence Prevention,
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, and Post-War
Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Resolution
Afternoon Session: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation: Mapping
Actors, Resources, and Strategies
Wednesday, January 22
Morning Session: People and Community Centred Approaches to Conflict
Transformation and Peacebuilding
Afternoon Session: Violence Prevention and Conflict Transformation
Thursday, January 23
Morning Session: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation in War-
Torn Societies
Afternoon Session: Post-War Reconstruction, Reconciliation,
Resolution and Healing
Friday, January 24
Morning Session: Building a Culture of Peace and Reconciliation:
Peace Journalism, Peace Education and Peace Praxis
Afternoon Session: Participants Presentations
THE TRAINER AND FACILITATOR
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is founder and Director of the Peace
Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and Co-
Director of TRANSCEND, and is on the Executive Board of the TRANSCEND
Peace University (TPU). He has worked extensively in Afghanistan,
Nepal, Russia, South Eastern Europe, North America, and the Middle
East at the invitation of governments, inter-governmental
organisations, UN agencies, and local organisations and communities
promoting local development, community empowerment, and
peacebuilding. He has written and published widely, and is author of
The Struggle Continues: The Political Economy of Globalisation and
People's Struggles for Peace (Pluto, forthcoming), co-author,
together with Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen, of Searching for
Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000 & 2002) and Editor of the
TRANSCEND book series published together with Pluto Press, Critical
Peace Studies: Peace by Peaceful Means. He is also a member of the
Executive Board of the Journal of Peace and Development and the
Executive Board of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and
an Associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future
Research, as well as an advisor to several governments, foreign
ministries, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Council of Europe.
In 1999 he was founder and Director of the Coalition for Global
Solidarity and Social Development, and in 2000, together with Johan
Galtung, he was founder of the Nordic Institute for Peace Research
(NIFF). Since 1996 he has provided more than 130 training programmes
in peacebuilding, development, and constructive conflict
transformation to more than 3000 participants in 26 countries.
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen will be supported by the staff of the
Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR).
PARTICIPANTS - Who Can Take Part?
The PCTR 2003 Training Programme/workshop is intended for experienced
aid and development workers, national and local level politicians and
policy makers, diplomats, senior NGO staff, human rights and peace
workers.
Participants are requested to send in a copy of their CV and the
completed Application Form no later than January 6th, 2003 (see the
end of this document for the Application Form). The programme is
limited to a maximum number of 35 participants, and applicants are
requested to send in their applications as early as possible in order
to guarantee a place in the programme.
Detailed information about travel to Cluj-Napoca will be sent to
those who have registered.
COSTS AND FEES
Participation fees for the full 5-days training programme are:
Participants from North America, Western Europe and South-East
Asia/Oceania: US$500
Participants from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe:
US$300
The participation fee covers participation in the training programme,
and all materials, including:
� Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach,
The United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme Manual
(UNDP 2000)
� Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND by Johan Galtung, Carl
Jacobsen and Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen (Pluto Press, 2002)
� Peace by Peaceful Means by Johan Galtung (Sage Press, 1996)
� After Violence: 3R - Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Resolution
� as well as accommodation for five days and nights.
Accommodation is provided in double rooms. Single room accommodation
is available for all participants for US$100 extra for the week.
THE ORGANISERS
TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict
Transformation by Peaceful Means
TRANSCEND is a network of more than 200 of the world's leading
practitioners and scholars in peacebuilding and development from over
60 countries around the world. Committed to the promotion of peace
by peaceful means, TRANSCEND has 20 active programmes, and conducts
its work through action, education/training, dissemination and
research. With centres in Barcelona (Spain), Cluj-Napoca (Romania),
Geneva (Switzerland), Hagen (Germany), Honolulu (USA), Kyoto (Japan),
Moscow (Russia), Sandnes (Norway), Taplow Court (Great Britain),
Torino (Italy), Vienna (Austria), and Washington, DC (USA) � with
several others now being formed in Europe, Latin America, Africa and
Asia � TRANSCEND has provided more than 300 training programmes for
over 6000 participants in 43 countries around the world.
Participants in TRANSCEND training programmes have included
politicians, diplomats, aid and development workers, teachers,
psychologists, social workers, journalists, civil service employees,
UN staff, professors, students, and others. In 2000, TRANSCEND
developed the United Nations' first ever manual on "Conflict
Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach."
Currently, TRANSCEND is doing research on: Peacebuilding and
Empowerment; Non-Territorial Federalism and Functional Independence;
Self-Determination and the Nation/State Dialectic; Peacebuilding and
Globalisation; Conflict Transformation and Psychological Assumptions;
Comparing Methods of Conflict Transformation from Micro, Meso and
Macro-Levels; the Dialogue Process; Local and Subsistence Economics;
Models for Global Economic Crises; Understanding Genocide. TRANSCEND
has recently launched the new TRANSCEND Media Service, and is in the
process of developing the Conflict Transformation Index (CTI) and
TRANSCEND Early Warning Index (EWI). TRANSCEND perspectives are
freely available on the Internet (www.transcend.org), and a TRANSCEND
monthly Bulletin is being prepared for distribution in 12 languages.
PATRIR � The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania
Founded on March 1st, 2001, the PATRIR, is an institute,
organisation, training centre and network, linking together scholars,
grassroots activists, and peace researchers throughout Romania and
South-Eastern Europe. Its aim is to address the core challenges
facing Romania and the countries of South and Eastern Europe, to
strengthen and empower grassroots organisations and citizens' action,
to mobilise people for active peace work and peaceful conflict
transformation, and to address the structural causes of poverty,
human rights violations and economic and social injustice. PATRIR is
an institute and an organisation for research, training and active
peace work. PATRIR organises training programmes in peacebuilding
and peaceful conflict transformation; peace journalism; democracy and
human rights; multi-culturalism; empowering civil society; gender and
peace; sustainable development; post-war reconstruction,
reconciliation and resolution; and, environment and ecology.
Participants to PATRIR training programmes frequently include senior
politicians and diplomats, experienced aid and development workers,
UN and NGO staff, civil society activists, professors, teachers,
students, journalists, artists, and psychologists from Romania and
more than 30 countries internationally. PATRIR cooperates with
TRANSCEND as the TRANSCEND Centre for South-Eastern Europe. Since
2001, PATRIR has been one of TRANSCEND's leading international
training sites.
For more information or to register as a participant, please contact:
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