First On-Line Courses from the TRANSCEND Peace University

[Dietrich Fischer <102464.1110@compuserve.com>]

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First on-line courses offered by TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY (TPU)

Johan Galtung, the Rector of TPU and TRANSCEND's founder and
Director invites you to join students from around the world online.
TPU is the educational branch of TRANSCEND: A global peace and
development network.  Our common goal is: "To bring about a more
peaceful world by using action, education, networking and research
to handle conflicts with creativity, nonviolence and empathy".
Since 1996, over 200 on-site workshops have been offered for over
4,000 participants around the world, using the manual "Conflict
Transformation By Peaceful Means," published by the United Nations.

Galtung is widely known as the founder of the academic discipline
of peace research.  He has published over 100 books and 1500
articles, taught at many universities throughout the world, and
mediated in over 50 major conflicts around the world over the past
four decades.  Taking a course with the founder of a new discipline
is like taking an economics course with Adam Smith, calculus with
Isaac Newton, or medicine with Hippocrates--a unique opportunity.

From February 2003, TPU will offer six 15-weeks on-line courses:
* Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means         Johan Galtung
* Global Conflicts and Nonviolence               Joergen Johansen
* Peacebuilding and Empowerment       Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
* Peace Journalism                Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick
* Peace and the Arts                               Olivier Urbain
* Nonmilitary Aspects of Security                Dietrich Fischer
More courses will be added later, also in other languages

TPU aims at government and NGO practitioners and students at any
level. Courses are both skills and knowledge intensive.  There will
be certificates for single courses, diplomas for clusters of
courses and eventually BA, MA and PhD degrees. Participants may
combine online and onsite courses.

Starting Date: February 3, 2002
Deadline for Registration: January 20, 2002
Cost per Course: Euros 500 (or US $500 from the USA only)
(We cannot offer scholarships at this time, but encourage those
unable to pay to seek funding from organizations or foundations.)

For more information and course syllabi go to www.transcend.org/tpu
or contact the TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY GLOBAL CENTER in Cluj,
Romania with a staff to handle information, applications, payment
of fees, course related questions, and computer problems.
Email <tpu@transcend.org>,  Fax +40-264-180-988
Tel +40-724-380-551 (or  +40-744-708-091, or +40-744-776-797).

You can register online at www.transcend.org/tpu, or send your
name, address, phone number, email address, the course which you
wish to take, and 100-200 words about your background, future plans
and reasons why you wish to take the course to <tpu@transcend.org>.

PLEASE SHARE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WITH ANYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.
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Wishing you a happy and peaceful new year, Dietrich Fischer