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UPEACE/Geneva eNews,
November 2003, Issue 2003-04

Thanks for reading the November 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.
An online version of all newsletters is available at the UPEACE Africa Programme web site. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, please send an email to enews@upeace.ch using “unsubscribe” as the subject.

Issued by UPEACE Geneva.
Editor: Ameena Payne, Director University for Peace Geneva Office. For further queries please contact enews@upeace.ch

      
Curriculum Development Workshop on Human Rights, Justice and Peace in Kampala, Uganda

The second UPEACE Curriculum Development Workshop for the Central and Eastern region will be held in Kampala, Uganda from the 1st to 5th of December, co-hosted with and coordinated by the Makerere University, Uganda's premier institution of higher learning.

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.

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.

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New Gender and Peace Building Short Courses at UPEACE

The Department for Gender and Peace Studies at the University for Peace is pleased to announce three new international courses that will be taught on the University’s main campus in San José, Costa Rica in 2004. Below are brief descriptions of the new courses.

Human Rights, Democracy and Governance from the Gender Perspective
February 2 – February 20, 2004
Professor Alda Facio (Costa Rica)
This course on human rights, democracy and governance is given from the standpoint of a feminist human rights activist who is committed to the idea of human rights for a better world. To talk about human rights is to talk about democracy, governance, justice, state responsibility, the duty to protect, participation, human security and substantive equality, all of which are pre-requisites for peace.

The Ethics of War and Peace and Human Security from the Gender Perspective
March 1 – March 19, 2004
Professor Indai Sajor (Philippines)
The international short course on the Ethics of War and Peace and Human Security is meant to give an overview of the theory and practices of war, its causes and consequences, the definition of the meaning of peace and an interrogation of human security. Students will be introduced to different forms of war and armed conflict – ethnic conflicts, communal violence, resourced based conflicts, religious based conflicts, terrorism and other conflicts that have recently erupted in other countries.

A Gender Analysis of the Environment and Sustainable Development
April 12 – April 30, 2004
Professor Lorena Aguilar (Costa Rica)
The three-week international course “A Gender Analysis of the Environment and Sustainable Development” is designed to provide technical, methodological and practical inputs that facilitate an understanding of the importance of gender issues for the environmental sector.

For further information about the courses and the programmes, including an application form, please visit http://www.upeace.org

Additionally, you may contact the Office for Academic Administration directly at acadmin@upeace.org.

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Curriculum Development Workshop for the Military in Freetown, Sierra Leone

A Curriculum Development Workshop for the Military sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace, the British Council, the Sierra Leone Africa Centre, and the Department of Peace Studies University of Bradford in association with the UPEACE Africa Programme, and jointly organized with the Ministry of Defence, was recently held in Freetown, Sierra Leone (3-5 November). This workshop was conducted by Dr. David J. Francis, Director of the Africa Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Bradford, and academic advisor to the Africa Programme of UPEACE, with the goal of developing courses on peace studies and conflict resolution which will be adapted and introduced at various career levels in the Sierra Leone military forces education programme.

UPEACE was pleased to also enable the participation of Brigadier Kaihura Kale on behalf of General Nayakairima Aronda of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) . Both General Aronda and Brigadier Kale are strongly committed to expansion into Uganda of the programme for military education in peace studies and conflict resolution and meetings will be held to this end early in December following the Makerere University/UPEACE Curriculum Development Workshop in Kampala.

Dr. Francis' full report on the workshop output and implementation schedule will be available shortly on the Africa Programme website.

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