MINELRES: Peace studies: TRANSCEND Training on-line and on-site

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TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY
Second Semester, September 8 - December 19, 2003

Johan Galtung, the Rector of TPU and one of the founders of peace
studies, invites you to join practitioners and students from around the
world ON-LINE.

TPU is the worlds first truly global, on-line Peace University designed
for practitioners, policy makers and students working in the fields of
peace, conflict transformation, development and global issues. TPU is
the educational branch of TRANSCEND. Our goal is: "to bring about a more
peaceful world by using action, education, networking and research to
handle conflicts with creativity, nonviolence and empathy". Since 1996
300+ on-site skills institutes have been offered for 6,000+ participants
around the world, using the TRANSCEND manual "Conflict Transformation By
Peaceful Means," published by the United Nations.

In Semester 2 of 2003 TPU will offer the following 12 courses:

Course                                     Course Directors

Peaceful Conflict Transformation              Johan Galtung
Nonviolent Security Approaches             Dietrich Fischer
Nonviolence in Global Conflicts             Jorgen Johansen
                                        Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Peacebuilding and Empowerment            Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Peace and Arts                               Olivier Urbain
Dialogue, Peace and Development               Katrin Kaufer
                                        Claus Otto Scharmer
Deep Culture in Conflict        Johan Galtung/Wilfried Graf
Reconciliation After Violence              S. P. Udayakumar
                                       Joanna Santa Barbara
War to Peace Transition                   Alejandro Bendana
                                         Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Development and Decolonization    Poka Laenui/'Imiola Young
Development and Human Rights             Jim Ife/Lucy Fiske
Development and Democratization                  Paul Scott

TPU aims at government and NGO practitioners and students at any level.
Courses are both skills and knowledge intensive. There will be
certificates for single courses, diplomas for clusters of courses and
eventually BA, MA and PhD degrees. Participants may combine online and
onsite courses.

Starting Date: September 8, 2003
Deadline for Registration: September 7, 2003
Cost per Course: 500 Euros

Course descriptions and instructors' CVs are available at
www.transcend.org/tpu

For more information or to register, please contact the TRANSCEND PEACE
UNIVERSITY GLOBAL CENTER in Cluj, Romania with a staff to handle
information, applications, payment of fees, course related questions,
and computer problems: 
Email: <tpu@transcend.org>
Tel: +40-264-420-298 or 
     +40-724-380551 
Fax: +40-264-420-298
Or visit the TPU web-site at: 
www.transcend.org/tpu

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PEACEBUILDING, CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION &
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION AND RESOLUTION

A Training Programme organised by TRANSCEND and the Peace Action,
Training and Research Institute of Romania
November 3 - 7, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction,
Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR 2003) is designed for practitioners,
political leaders and policy makers, and organisations working in areas
affected by conflict, violent conflict, and war, as well as countries
and regions in post-war situations.  Building upon experiences in
peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and post-war reconstruction,
rehabilitation, reconciliation and healing, the programme is highly
intensive and practice-oriented. Rather than a focus on pure theory, the
training is both skills and knowledge intensive, and is structured in
such a way as to take up and address within the programme the concrete
challenges and issues faced by the participants and the organisations
they represent, both in the field and in their organisation, programme
and project design.

Bridging the fields of theory and practice, the PCTR 2003 will be highly
effective for those working:

a. to prevent the outbreak of violent conflict in their
countries/communities;
b. to transform violent and intractable conflicts towards peaceful and
constructive outcomes;
c. to mobilise and empower communities for broad-based, comprehensive
and inclusive approaches to conflict transformation and peacebuilding;
d. to improve participants' abilities to map conflicts effectively and
develop appropriate strategies and responses for integration into their
work, organisations and programmes;
e. to develop effective methods, tools and approaches for conflict
transformation and peacebuilding;
f. to develop/improve and implement programmes within their
organisations/communities either directly addressing or affected by
conflicts and war;
g. to carry out reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and
healing in post-violence/war situations, going from cease-fires (halting
the violence) to peace processes (addressing root causes, transforming
the underlying conflicts, and building resources for peace and
reconciliation);
h. to realise effective policies/programmes for responding to conflict
and dealing with the impacts of war and violence on national and
community social, economic, political and development related
programmes.

The programme will begin each day at 09:00, and run until 18:00.
Participants will receive materials to assist them in their
participation before the programme, as well as written reports and
follow-up materials upon completion of the 5-day training.

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) where he is Course Director for the courses
Peacebuilding and Empowerment and War to Peace Transitions.  He has
worked in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, 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 currently working on
preparing a comprehensive handbook for Peacebuilding, Conflict
Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and
Reconciliation in Nepal. 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 150 training programmes in peacebuilding, development, and
constructive conflict transformation to more than 3500 participants in
28 countries.

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen will be supported by the staff and
additional trainers of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute
of Romania (PATRIR).

Applicants who do not require visas for travel to Romania are requested
to send in a copy of their CV and the completed Application Form no
later than October 10, 2003. Detailed information about travel to
Cluj-Napoca will be sent to those who have registered and been accepted
as participants.

COSTS AND FEES                                                    

Participation fees for the full 5-days training programme are:
Participants from North America, Western Europe and South-East
Asia/Oceania: Euros 700
Participants from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe:
Euros 400
Accommodation in double rooms is included. Single rooms are
available for all participants for Euros 50 extra for the week.

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

- And additional books and publications

Visit www.transcend.org for more information or to apply on-line
or write to sorana@patrir.ro for an Application Form.

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