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This CD-Rom has been prepared for the UPEACE Curriculum Development Workshop on Human Rights, Justice and Peace being held in Kampala, Uganda from 1-5 December, 2003. Its purpose is to help address the critical book famine that plagues many institutions of higher education in Africa by providing inexpensive teaching resources and basic texts that can be instantaneously applicable and used for dissemination in universities, civil society and non-governmental organizations.

The workshop's goal is to focus on teaching the linkages between justice, human rights, and peace. It is the second in a set of three sub-regional workshops being organized in 2003 and early 2004 by the UPEACE Africa Programme, bringing together academicians, researchers, and educators to consolidate knowledge and build the basis for mastering the skills needed for the management, resolution, and transformation of conflict. The strategy of curriculum development workshops will allow individual professors, lecturers, and NGO leaders, to come together and rapidly develop from their cumulative experience what amount to immediately applicable teaching strategies.

The objectives of the workshops are to:

• Strengthen the capacity of African universities to teach, train and deliver courses on peace and conflict studies
• Strengthen the capacity of academicians to respond to the demand for peace and conflict studies, in universities and other institutions of higher education that are hamstrung by rigid and traditional disciplinary boundaries
• Improve the quality of teaching
• Engage African academicians in the long-term process of contributing to the development of Africa-specific materials in the field of peace and conflict studies
• Encourage universities and civil society organizations to develop community outreach training programmes, and to establish collaborative partnerships between academia and civil society

A key output from the workshop will be the design of a package of tangible, practical teaching materials to respond to the dearth of teaching materials and indicative readings – termed the ‘book famine’ at African universities. The workshop in Uganda will specifically address the topic of justice, human rights and peace, underscoring the need for a basic understanding of how these areas are interconnected and directly relate to the building of peace.