In this Issue

• UPEACE’s Newest Academic Appointment
• Faculty and Staff Development Seminar on Gender and Peace Building in Kitwe, Zambia
• The Institute for Media, Peace and Security moves to Geneva
• Meetings of the UPEACE Council and the Academic Advisory Council
• New Book Releases
• Free access to Oxford University Press journals

Selected Links

• UPEACE HQ web site
• UPEACE Africa Programme
• UPEACE Central Asia Programme
• Institute for Media, Peace and Security
• Journal of Peacebuilding and Development
• Reliefweb
• UN Web Site Locator

UPEACE/Geneva eNews,
June 2004, Issue 2004-03

Thanks for reading the June issue of UPEACE/Geneva eNews. This newsletter is aimed at providing updates and news from UPEACE and its regional programmes with special focus on the Africa and Central Asia programmes, which are coordinated through the Geneva office. In addition it will provide information on UPEACE publications and new developments, new documents available on the Africa programme, and Workshops/Seminars / Conferences being offered through the Africa and Central Asia programmes.
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Editor: Ameena Payne, Executive Director University for Peace Geneva Office. For further queries please contact enews@upeace.ch

The Institute for Media, Peace and Security moves to Geneva

Over the past ten, and especially five years, the international and academic communities have realized the central role that mass media play before, during and after conflict. The Institute for Media, Peace and Security (IMPS) was launched in April 2001 in Paris as one of the University for Peace’s worldwide programmes, and is one of the first university level education and research centers specializing exclusively in this pioneering area.

IMPS found its permanent home in Geneva within the regional office of UPEACE, and is currently moving forward on the development of academic and training courses to be offered next fall and winter on the UPEACE Campus in Costa Rica. Three courses are scheduled to be included in the existing MA programmes by January 2005.

During the coming months the IMPS also plans to update its website contents and design.

For further information please visit www.mediapeace.org

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Meetings of the UPEACE Council and the Academic Advisory Council

UPEACE convened meetings of its governing Council and its Academic Advisory Council (AAC) in Mont-Pélerin, Switzerland, 2-5 June 2004.

The Rector of UPEACE, Mr Martin Lees, briefed the AAC and governing Council on all the activities undertaken by UPEACE, and the Council endorsed the further consolidation, strengthening and development of UPEACE's programmes.

The Council noted with appreciation the progress which has been made under the leadership of Rector R. Martin Lees in consolidating and strengthening, under very difficult and demanding circumstances, current activities of the University and in defining and preparing new activities.

The Council expressed its sincere thanks to the donor Governments whose financial contributions to the University have made possible the further development of its programmes. More..

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• The Martinus Nijhoff Publishers has recently published the work of Christof Heyns, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, entitled "Human Rights Law in Africa".
  
  The aim of this reference work is to make African human rights law accessible to all those involved in or interested in human rights law on the continent, in order to strengthen its impact.
  
  Primary documents are introduced and reproduced and presented in a coherent framework. The main institutions - public and private - dealing with human rights in Africa are identified and discussed. Comprehensive overviews of the international human rights legal regimes applicable to Africa, as well as country reports are provided. Access to this body of law will enable judges, practicing lawyers, academics and other researchers, as well as law reformers, NGOs, activists and students, to both ascertain and assert these rights. It will also serve to ensure the development of a stronger indigenous African human rights jurisprudence, rooted in local experience, history, culture and practices. More..
  
  Title: Human Rights Law in Africa
  Volume 1: International Human Rights Law in Africa.
  Volume 2: Domestic Human Rights Law in Africa
  
  Edited by: Christof Heyns (Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria)
  Assistant Editor: Morne van der Linde (Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights and heads the Environmental Programme at the Centre)
  
  In Print: 2004
  ISBN: 90 04 13881 1
  
  Ordering information:
  Order can be made by using the order form or online on www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id21908.htm

• The University for Peace is pleased to announce that one of its professors in International Peace Studies, Adedayo Oluwakayode Adekson, recently published a book entitled: The ‘Civil Society’ Problematique: Deconstructing Civility and Southern Nigeria’s Ethnic Radicalisation. New York; London: Routledge, ISBN 04-15947-85-5. In particular, this volume deftly undertakes both a theoretical deconstruction of the concept of civil society, civility and related themes, and an empirical analysis of the ethnic radicalisation process in Southern Nigeria. Please refer to the abstract for additional information regarding the study's suppositions and findings.

• ‘Conflits en Afrique des Grands Lacs et Esquisses de Leur Résolutions’ par Anastase Shyaka, docteur en science politique est Directeur Adjoint du Centre de Gestion des Conflits de l’Université National du Rwanda. Varsovie; Pologne: édition académiques DIALOG, ISBN 83-88938-16-9.
  
  Les conflits identitaires qui résultent de la dégradation des perceptions identificatoires que les être humains peuvent avoir d’eux-mêmes, constituent aujourd’hui une grande menace pour la paix et la sécurité dans le monde et particulièrement en Afrique.
  
  Ce livre tente d’élucider les facteurs, tant structurels que conjoncturels, qui sont à l’origine des conflits de l’Afrique des Grands Lacs et met en évidence la place et le rôle déterminant qu’y jouent les acteurs externes.

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