Call for Applications: UPEACE-IDRC
Doctoral Research Award
26 June 2008 – 12 September 2008
The UPEACE Africa Programme has secured funding from
The Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). This
funding will be strictly allocated to African students studying at
African institutions and in particular for those, who are in the
final stage of their PhD studies. The award is intended to support
PhD candidates in their field research, data analysis, associated
travel and production costs. In addition, part of the award may be
used to access updated scholarly materials and disseminate research
findings through publications and conference presentations. The maximum
award is US $10,000 per eligible student. More..
Internships, Addis Ababa Office:
The University for Peace, Africa Programme
offers a limited number of UNPAID INTERNSHIP POSITIONS in its Addis
Ababa office. These positions
are designed for graduate students (post graduate) in the peace and
conflict studies field, humanities and social sciences. More..
Final Reports Section
A new section has been added to the UPEACE Africa Programme
web site listing all final reports form various activities over the
past few years. Reports from 2005 - 2007 are already available
online and further reports will be loaded over the
coming few days.
Click here
to visit.
Publications:
Peace Research for Africa:
Critical Essays on Methodology
Authors: Erin McCandless and Abdul Karim Bangura
Editors: Mary E. King and Ebrima Sall
Research in the field of peace and conflict studies
needs to improve
the quality and relevance of knowledge by and for Africa.
This requires a healthy debate over appropriate methodologies
and epistemological approaches, the linkage between theory and application
as policy, and the ways in which peace and conflict studies research
can be usefully compared to that in other fields. This is important
for bridging the gap between the study of peace and conflict resolution
issues and on-the-ground peace-building activities in Africa, relating
the theory and empirical research to the practical needs of practitioners
and decision makers. Such research should offer both a conceptual
foundation of applicable and operational theory and case study examples
that address ways in which political, economic, and social factors
influence conflicts in Africa. More..
Compendium of key human
rights documents of the African Union
Arabic Edition - 2007
This
is the Arabic translation of Heyns and Killander (eds) Compendium
of key human rights documents of the African Union, published in
French as Sélection
de Documents-Clé de l’Union Africaine Relatifs aux Droits de l’Homme. More..
Nonviolent Transformation
of Conflict—Africa
In meetings by faculty and staff of the University
for Peace at more than fifty universities and five hundred non-governmental
organizations in Africa during 2002 and 2003, educators across the
continent lamented the dearth of materials on the subject of nonviolent
struggle in Africa. An historian at the University of Natal at Durban,
however, spoke with pride of ‘South Africa’s strong indigenous
tradition of nonviolent struggle—the tradition of Gandhi, Lithuli,
and Biko’, referring to Mohandas K. Gandhi, who developed his
formative principles during twenty-one years spent in South Africa,
the Zulu chief and Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Luthuli, and the
anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko. In 2004, Nigerian youth leaders
attending a forum in Abuja, Nigeria, fervently requested books to
help them learn how to fight for justice without violence: ‘All
we ever hear is violence’, said one, ‘some teachers even
tell us that what Nigeria needs is more violence’. In response,
and as a direct outgrowth of a 2005 workshop in Port Harcourt, Nigeria,
on nonviolent transformation of conflict, the Africa Programme of
the University for Peace is pleased to offer four publications on
nonviolent struggle. More....
Human Rights, Peace
and Justice in Africa: A Reader
Editor:
Christof Heyns and Karen Stefiszyn
This
Reader contains materials on human rights, peace and justice
relevant to Africa, extracted from academic writings, reports
from the United Nations and non-governmental organisations,
speeches, official documents, national constitutions and human
right cases.
Where possible, material from Africa has been selected. More..
Compendium of Key Documents relating to Peace
and Security in Africa
Editor: Monica Juma
Assistant editors: Rafael
Velásquez García & Brittany
Kesselman
This Compendium contains key official documents on peace
and security in Africa covering the period between 1963 and the end
of 2005. The
Compendium is part of an evolving Series on Peace and Conflict in
Africa published by the United Nations-affiliated University for
Peace (UPEACE). The main objective of the Series is to make material
which can be used by African universities in courses dealing with
issues of peace readily accessible to lecturers, students and researchers.
More..
More publications....
