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International Course on Gender and Peace Building

29 October-4 November 2001

The International Course on Gender and the challenge of peace building is an advanced one-week course organized, as a joint effort, by the University for Peace and the Inter-agencies gender thematic group of the United Nations Coordination System. This course offers the opportunity to establish dialogue among colleagues from around the world, to face new challenges in this field and to improve practical skills in a warm and user friendly atmosphere.

Special attention will be given to Gender as a Cross-Cutting Issue when presenting topics such as:

• From women to gender perspectives
  

• Human Rights and women's rights
  

• The UN System and the protection of women
  

• Peace and Security
  

• Governance and changing gender roles
  

• Refugee and displaced persons issues

The program has been designed to not only transmit knowledge from recognised experts on the subject, but also to generate and create knowledge based on the expertise of the participants.

Course Objectives:

• To strengthen and empower participants in topics related to Gender for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of their programs and projects
  

• To learn through theory and practice, including the sharing of experiences, about the relationship between gender issues and peace building processes
  

• To establish a thematic dialogue among professionals with similar responsibilities in diverse environments
  

• To strengthen the training and capacity building skills, knowledge, abilities and networks among UN agencies, other resource people and the University for Peace
  

Level: professional

Location: San José, Costa Rica

Participants: UN agencies staff members

Tuition, fee, lodging: USD 2100, which includes tuition, room and board, medical insurance, learning materials, programme activities and internal transportation. Further information and application forms can be downloaded from: http://www.upeace.org/register/options_gender.htm Deadline of application: 17 September 2001.

Contact Information:
Dina Rodriguez
Gender and Peace Program
University for Peace
Apdo. 138-6100
Ciudad Colon
COSTA RICA
Tel: +506 205-9000
Fax: +506 249-1929
E-mail: drodriguez@upeace.org
Web: http://www.upeace.org/gender.htm