All Discussions Tagged 'FLACSO' - ADRhub - Creighton NCR2024-03-29T04:37:37Zhttp://www.adrhub.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=FLACSO&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSummer Institute on Conflict Transformation across Borders in Ecuador: Call for Applications (due March 21)tag:www.adrhub.com,2016-02-13:4905899:Topic:711062016-02-13T04:19:44.361ZJeff Pughhttp://www.adrhub.com/profile/JeffPugh
<p class="ecxxmsonormal">Check out this exciting opportunity for hands-on learning in Latin America this summer!</p>
<p class="ecxxmsonormal"> The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC) are pleased to announce:<br></br> <br></br> The second annual <b>Summer</b> <b>Institute on</b> <strong>Conflict Transformation Across</strong> <b>Borders</b> will take…</p>
<p class="ecxxmsonormal">Check out this exciting opportunity for hands-on learning in Latin America this summer!</p>
<p class="ecxxmsonormal"> The McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies of the University of Massachusetts-Boston, FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC) are pleased to announce:<br/> <br/> The second annual <b>Summer</b> <b>Institute on</b> <strong>Conflict Transformation Across</strong> <b>Borders</b> will take place from <b>June 5-24, 2016 in Quito, Ecuador</b> at FLACSO, with graduate-level credit issued by UMass Boston. The program will focus on conflict and peace in border regions. More info and application instructions are available at <a href="http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation" target="_blank">http://www.</a><a href="http://www.caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation" target="_blank">caps.umb.edu/conflict_transformation</a> . <strong>The application deadline is March 21, 2016</strong>.<br/> <a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311560611?profile=original"><img class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2311560611?profile=original" width="612"/></a><br/> The program is coordinated by Dr. Jeff Pugh of UMass Boston (Dept. of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance) and Dr. Cecile Mouly of FLACSO-Ecuador (Dept. of International Studies and Communication), and will feature a series of high-level guest speakers (a former Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Relations, UN Ambassador, UN peacekeeper involved in the Nicaraguan demobilization process, refugee leaders, NGO activists, and more).</p>
<p class="ecxxmsonormal">This course is designed to equip early-career professionals, graduate students, and other future peacebuilders with practical tools, knowledge, and hands-on experience to understand the complexities of conflicts within and across border regions, and the types of interventions that can be used to transform these conflicts.<br/> <br/> The program will include classroom learning; trips to the Amazon cloud forest and the northern border region; practical skills training workshops on negotiation, cross-cultural communication, and proposal writing; and participants will design their own proposal for a peacebuilding project, receiving feedback from a panel of experienced experts in the field. In this sense, the Summer Institute is not just a learning or training opportunity, but a platform for action that connects a cohort of peacebuilders and empowers them to address the complex conflicts related to borders, migration and refugees, and transnational environmental challenges that face the world today. <br/> <br/> ==============<br/> Topics</p>
<ul>
<li>Human security vs. national security in border regions</li>
<li>Transnational dimensions of conflict and peacebuilding</li>
<li>Skills workshop: Conflict analysis</li>
<li>Border disputes and binational dialogue/peace processes: the cases of Ecuador-Colombia and Ecuador-Peru</li>
<li>Forced migration and social conflict in migrant-receiving communities</li>
<li>Skills workshop: Negotiation and mediation</li>
<li>Conflict involving transnational environmental challenges</li>
<li>Skills workshop: Project development and proposal writing</li>
<li>Indigenous identity, ethnicity and conflict in border regions</li>
<li>Skills workshop: Cross-cultural and non-violent communication as peacebuilding resource</li>
<li>Security sector reform; disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) and the Colombian armed conflict</li>
<li>Nonviolence and civil resistance</li>
</ul>
<p class="ecxxmsolistparagraph">Check out the outcomes, student reflections, published articles, and photos from the 2015 Summer Institute at <a href="https://conflicttransformationborders.wordpress.com/conflict-transformation-across-border-regions/" target="_blank">https://conflicttransformationborders.wordpress.com/conflict-transformation-across-border-regions/</a> . This 3-minute video is a great way to get a quick feel for the program: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUO5nSFS0gM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUO5nSFS0gM</a> .</p>
<p class="ecxxmsolistparagraph">---------<br/> Jeffrey D. Pugh<br/> Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director of Conflict Resolution<br/> Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance<br/> University of Massachusetts, Boston<br/> Jeffrey.pugh@umb.edu<br/> <br/> Apply today for the MA program in Conflict Resolution at UMass Boston:<br/> <a href="http://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/conflict_resolution" target="_blank">http://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/conflict_resolution</a><br/> <br/> Executive Director<br/> Center for Mediation, Peace, and Resolution of Conflict (CEMPROC)<br/> Quito, Ecuador<br/> <a href="http://www.cemproc.org/" target="_blank">www.cemproc.org</a></p>