| UPEACE/Geneva
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10 Scholarships Available for UPEACE 2006/7 Academic Year The Peace Education and the Environmental Security and Peace programmes have 10 scholarships available for this academic year. During the 2006-2007 academic year, the University for Peace will be providing Master's programmes in the following areas:
Admission requirements, online application and detailed information about each programme are available on http://www.upeace.org/programmes. Application deadline: 31 March 2006 Decisions will be emailed on 30 April 2006.
The Peacebuilders' series, published in the Daily Nation in Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration with UPEACE, goes from strength to strength. The series focuses on Africa's unsung heroes - those who have helped to promote and sustain peace in post-conflict situations. The Daily Nation is East Africa's biggest selling newspaper with a readership of around one million. The series also appears in the Daily Monitor in Kampala, Uganda and the Citizen Daily in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. To date It has featured two Liberian students helping to resolve political tensions at the University of Monrovia (downloaded PDF), two women caring for orphaned refugee children following the twelve-year civil war in Burundi (download PDF) and a nun working with children forced into the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army. The series has triggered an enthusiastic response from Daily Nation readers. They chose athlete Tegla Loroupe, who has organised peace races for opposing factions in Kenya's North Rift region, and peace activist and teacher Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a Kenyan Somali working in the region, as their Kenyan peace builders. The next article to be published will feature Sister Teya Kakuze, a Rwandan nun working with women affected by the 1994 genocide. The UPEACE Africa Programme invites you to suggest names of people working at the grassroots level in Africa whose work is cultivating a climate of peace in society. Kindly send your suggestions/recommendations to info@upeace.ch.
Call for Applications - University of Bradford Africa Centre PhD Studentship 2006/7 Academic Year 3-Year funded Research Studentship on Social Reintegration of Child Soldiers in Post-Conflict Societies in Africa Within the framework of the Allan & Nesta Ferguson Five Year Project on Working for Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa, the Africa Centre is pleased to announce a call for applications for a 3-year funded PhD studentship to be based in the Africa Centre at the Department of Peace Studies. This action-oriented research focuses on the war-torn and post-conflict countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda and Sudan. Applications from prospective candidates with knowledge and practical experience of working with programmes aimed at war-affected children, and child soldiers in Africa are particularly welcome. Applicants should have a first degree (2.1 or above) and/or a Master’s degree in the Social Sciences (preferably Peace and Conflict Studies, Politics and International Relations, and Development Studies). Applicants should have secured admission or have submitted an application for admission for the 2006/7 academic year in the Department of Peace Studies. Only those successful applicants who have been granted MPhil/PhD admission and researching on a topic relating to child soldiers and/or children and war in Africa will be considered for the studentship. Closing date for studentship application is 12 June 2006. For
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