[TRANSCEND] Training Programmes & Courses - TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU)

["TRANSCEND" <jacobsen at transcend.org>]

Announcement for courses and training programmes of TRANSCEND Peace
University (TPU)
<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org /
<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>www.transcend.org/tpu

TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) On-Line

1.	Opening Registration for courses beginning February 2005
(<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>www.transcend.org/tpu)


TRANSCEND International Peace and Development Training Programmes
(<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org)

2.	Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Rebuilding,
Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR) five-days advanced international
training programme, March 28 - April 1, 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
3.	Globalisation from below: strategies and actions for social
transformation and nonviolent struggle - learning from and building local
and global movements, April 18 - 22, 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


Please distribute as broadly as possible to individuals, organizations and
agencies which may be interested in participating.

1. TRANSCEND Peace University - TPU On-Line
The world's on-line university for peace and development studies
Announcing Registration for semester starting February 2005

The following is an announcement for the TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU),
the world's first ever global peace university for policy makers,
practitioners, scholars, students, UN staff and others working in
peacebuilding, conflict transformation, post-war reconstruction,
rehabilitation and reconciliation, development, human rights, and other
related fields.

Please forward this announcement to individuals, organisations, UN agencies
and governments which you believe may be interested in participating in the
TPU 's February Semester 2005. For more information or to apply on-line,
please visit www.transcend.org/tpu.

Please note, the deadline for applications for the February Semester is
February 15, 2005.
<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>http://www.transcend.org/tpu

TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY (TPU)
February Semester 2005<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>

Johan Galtung, the Rector of TPU and one of the founders of peace
studies, invites you to join practitioners and students from around
the world on-line.
<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>http://www.transcend.org/tpu

With faculty and Course Directors drawn from amongst the leading scholars
and practitioners in their fields internationally, TPU is the world's first
truly global,
on-line Peace University designed for government and NGO practitioners,
policy makers and students at any level working in the fields of peace,
conflict
transformation, development and global issues. Since 1996 300+ on-site
skills institutes have been offered for 6,000+ participants around the
world, using the TRANSCEND manual "Conflict Transformation By Peaceful
Means," published by the United Nations. There will be certificates; for
single courses, diplomas for
clusters of courses and eventually BA, MA; and PhD degrees.

Participants may combine on-line and on-site courses.
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In the 2005 February Semester TPU will offer the following 15 courses:
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1. Peaceful Conflict Transformation, Johan Galtung
2. Nonviolence as Political Tool and Philosophy, Jorgen Johansen
3. Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick
4. Film and Peace, Paul D. Scott
5. Deep Culture in Conflict, Johan Galtung, Wilfried Graf and Gudrun Kramer
6. Democratization and Development, Paul D. Scott
7. Dialogue, Peace and Development, Katrin Kaeufer and Claus Otto Scharmer
8. Conflict Prevention, Intervention, Reconciliation and Reconstruction, S.
P. Udayakumar
9. Development and Human Rights, Jim Ife and Lucy Fiske
10. Peace Futures: Mapping, Anticipating and Deepening Approaches to the
Futures of Peace (and War), Sohail Inayatullah
11. Peace Museums, Christophe Bouillet
12. Peace Zones, Christophe Barbey
13. Transformacion Pacifica de Conflictos, Sara Rozenblum de Horowitz
14. Peace Business and Economics, Jack Santa Barbara and Howard Richards
15. Literature and Peace, Marisa Antonaya

Starting Date: February 28, 2005 (or two weeks after the minimum number of
students is met for that course)

Ending Date: May 22, 2005

Deadline for Registration: February 15, 2005

Cost per one Course: For EU, North American, Japanese and South-East
Asian/Australian, participants 300 Euros. For all others 150 Euros.
<http://www.transcend.org/tpu>http://www.transcend.org/tpu

For more information or to register, please contact the TRANSCEND Peace
University Global Center in Cluj, Romania with a staff to handle
information, applications, payments, course related questions, and computer
support:
E-mail: <mailto:tpu at transcend.org>tpu at transcend.org
Tel +40-724-380511
Fax:+40-264-420298
Web-site <http://www.transcend.org/tpu>www.transcend.org/tpu

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2.                  Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War
Rebuilding, Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR) five-days advanced
international training programme, March 28 - April 1, 2005, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania for practitioners, policy makers, international and national agency
staff and NGOs working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and
post-war recovery (<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org)

Organised by TRANSCEND and the Peace Action, Training and Research
Institute of Romania (PATRIR)

Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction,
Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR 2005) is designed for practitioners,
political leaders and policy makers, and organisations working in areas
affected by conflict, violent conflict, and war, as well as countries and
regions in post-war situations.  Building upon experiences in
peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and post-war reconstruction,
rehabilitation, reconciliation and healing, and people-centred,
participatory development, from former Yugoslavia, Aceh, Afghanistan,
Cambodia, Colombia, Nepal, Somalia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and the Middle
East, as well as from the countries of the participants themselves, the
programme is highly intensive and practice-oriented.
The training is needs-based and both skills and knowledge intensive,
allowing participants to draw upon and address concrete issues and
challenges facing them in their work and country/community.  PCTR is
designed for advanced participants and practitioners to develop skills and
tools for implementation in practice, addressing both the needs of the
individuals taking part, as well as the needs and challenges confronting
the communities, organisations and institutions they work within, both in
the field and in their organisation, programme and project design. The PCTR
explores all three phases of violence and war - pre-violence, violence,
post-violence - and what can be done: to transform unresolved conflicts,
for war to peace transitions, to empower communities, organisations, and
individuals for conflict transformation and peacebuilding, to design and
implement effective cease-fire and peace processes, and to develop
effective policy responses and programmes for conflict transformation and
post-war reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and healing.
The PCTR is particularly relevant for senior to middle-range staff and
executive officers in national and international aid and development
organisations, field staff working in areas affected by violent conflict
and war or in post-war/violence situations, international diplomats,
national and local level politicians in countries affected by war and
conflict or with portfolios responsible for issues dealing with
peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and development policies, policy
makers, UN staff, people involved in grass-roots and community-based
peacebuilding, and practitioners of conflict transformation and mediation.
For more information or to apply please visit
<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org or write to Calina Resteman,
Training Programme Coordinator at
<mailto:training at transcend.org>training at transcend.org

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3.	Globalisation from below: strategies and actions for social
transformation and nonviolent struggle - learning from and building local
and global movements, April 18 - 22, 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
(<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org)


An Invitation to solidarity struggles, social justice movements, feminists
and women's organisations, unions, human rights workers, peace activists,
 and people's movements from across the world.

The programme will be devoted to developing methods and strategies for
empowerment, mobilisation, transformation, nonviolence, and building of
movements, weaving together a network of organisations and practitioners
across continents.  globalisation from below is intended as a meeting
point, and an in-depth, intensive training programme for those engaged in
nonviolent movements and social struggles for people's and community
rights, democratisation, peace, and social justice, drawing upon the
inspiration and lessons learned from people's movements and struggles
around the world over the past 50 years - from the People's Power movement
in the Philippines to the non-violent revolutions in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union and the overthrow of political apartheid in South
Africa to the Living Democracy Movement in India, the Assembly of the Poor
in Thailand, the Landless Movement in Brazil, and the World Social Forum.

globalisation from below will bring together social justice and human
rights activists, social workers and organisers, and peace organisations
and movements from around the world creating a space for sharing of
experiences and training in skills and methods for practice - for local and
global struggles - learning from the legacy of non-violent  movements from
all continents, and developing and strengthening a global network of
committed social activists and non-violent practitioners.

For more information or to apply please visit
<http://www.transcend.org/>www.transcend.org or write to Jasmina Francetic,
Training Programme Coordinator at
<mailto:jasmina at patrir.ro>jasmina at patrir.ro