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The UPEACE/Geneva eNews team thanks you for your contributions and encouragement during 2003. We wish you a happy and peaceful holiday season and look forward to our continued collaboration in 2004. The Geneva office will be closed from 22 December 2003 through 4 January 2004. University for Peace Admission The University for Peace is pleased to announce admissions for the academic year August 2004 - June 2005 are now open for the following programmes:
Admission requirements, on line application and detailed information about each programme is available on www.upeace.org/academic Application deadline: 31 March 2004 The Africa Programme has released a new CD during the Curriculum Development Workshop on Justice, Human Rights and Peace held in Kampala, Uganda from the 1st to 5th of December 2003. Its purpose is to provide inexpensive teaching resources and basic texts that can be instantaneously applicable and used for dissemination in universities, civil society and non-governmental organizations. The CD contains a number of African documents, A Glossary of Terms and Concepts in Peace and Conflict Studies, Human Rights Reference Handbook, and Human Rights Instruments. The content of the CD is available on the Africa Programme web site.
UHRC
launches a worldwide discussion and debate for a petition on a Convention
on the Human Right to Peace
At a Public Dialogue hosted by the Uganda Human Rights Commission during a UPEACE/Makerere University Curriculum Development Workshop on linking justice, human rights, and peace, a resolution was presented and supported to launch a global movement towards the adoption of a United Nations Convention on the Human Right to Peace. Further information is available on the UPEACE web site.
Fahamu, in association with the University of Oxford, has pioneered and field-tested a unique and innovative approach to capacity building of civil society organisations using CDROMs, workshops and the Internet in a programme known as Adilisha (Kiswahili for teaching or promoting justice). The following courses are widely available internationally:
Further information is available on http://www.fahamu.org.uk/ceedees.html
The Africa Peacebuilding Institute (API) offers an intensive study of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation rooted in, and responding to challenges emerging from the African context. Practitioners from across the continent come together to study and reflect on conflict transformation theory and practice and to interact with others involved with peacebuilding. The Institute is held at Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (MEF) in Kitwe, Zambia. The Africa Peacebuilding Institute (API), now in its fourth year of operation has seen encouraging development and expansion. The 2004 API will be held between 9 February and 19 March 2004. Participants are expected to arrive before Friday, 6 February. The institute has been re-designed in four (4) sessions with the choice of two (2) courses per session running concurrently. Each course is 7 days in length. No classes are scheduled over weekends. Applicants will choose one of the two courses offered in each session. For full details, please consult the online brochure or contact: Dag
Hammarskjöld Peace Center Tel:
+260.2.210.281
The Africa Law Institute (ALawI), has launched a peer-reviewed African Journal of Legal Studies (AJLS) on December 15, 2003. AJLS is the most recent initiative that ALawI is undertaking to assist in bringing critical African perspectives to bear on the numerous problems of governance that plague Africa. As an interdisciplinary academic journal, AJLS will focus on promoting innovative, policy-oriented African scholarship on a broad range of complex issues at the intersection of law, public policy and social change in Africa. AJLS invites submissions of unsolicited papers for its inaugural issue that will appear online in late March 2004. The
theme is Justice and Reconciliation For further details please contact African
Journal of Legal Studies
The newly established Moshoeshoe Center for Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation at the National University of Lesotho is organising a regional workshop to be held in Lesotho in January 2004. The objective of the workshop is to popularise the new centre and the Second Track/Citizens Diplomacy - a method for conflict transformation and management which is a joint project of National University of Lesotho and the University of Maryland. Part of the objectives of the centre is to serve as a regional (SADAC) centre for conflict prevention, management and education and the forthcoming workshop will draw participants from other SADAC countries. For further information, please contact: Dr.
Mamochaki Shale The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression. Applications are accepted at any time. Emergency applications receive urgent consideration. Non-emergency applications will be considered according to the following schedule:
Contact:
IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships
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