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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..

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