[hr-education] Southasian Human Rights Studies Orientation Course (Kathmandu, 1-15 September)

Good day. I received this notice (below) about a peace study course in
Nepal. I am being asked to help disseminate it. In case this notice has
not reached you here it is.

Regards,

Jeff Plantilla
HURIGHTS OSAKA

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SECOND ORIENTATION COURSE IN SOUTH ASIAN PEACE STUDIES

The Second South Asian Human Rights and Peace Studies Orientation Course of
the South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) will be held in Kathmandu,
Nepal from 1 September to 15 September 2001. The course is intended for
peace and human rights activists, media persons, researchers, academics
studies, and diplomats involved in policy making in conflict resolution. The
course will include examination of themes related to Justice,
Reconciliation, Peace and the Practices of Non-Violence. The course will
draw on the experiences of human rights and peace activism in the conflict
zones of South Asia and elsewhere and will deal with the long history of
moral resistance in the pursuit of justice and reconciliation in the region
since the colonial days. The course will take into account various forms of
violence including state violence, structural violence, hate speech,
intolerance, and the gender orientation of the structure of violence. Issues
of legality, non-violent mobilization, pacific but coercive policies, forms
of justice, and the ethics of reconciliation will be included in the course
syllabus.

Participants will have to support their own travel. Registration fee for
South Asian participants is US $ 100 (or its equivalent in Nepali rupee) and
participants from outside the region US $ 250 (or its equivalent in Nepali
rupee). Board, lodging and other expenses for the selected candidates will
be provided by SAFHR. Travel grant is available for limited number of
candidates for which they will have to apply separately. The age limit for
participation is 35 years. Women, and human rights and peace activists from
conflict areas are particularly encouraged to apply.

Applications by fax or e-mail will be valid. Applications will have to be
supported by full particulars, 1000-word summary of the relevance of the
course to the work of the participant, and names of two referees whose
recommendations should reach independently SAFHR peace studies desk. The
application must include all necessary details such as language skill,
experience and nature of current work. The summary has to include
candidate¹s own idea of peace and human rights activism, and the relation of
the applicant¹s work with SAFHR¹s peace studies programme. In selection of
candidates the 1000-word summary will be accorded importance.
The course will be participatory, and will involve intense course and
fieldwork. Audio-visual studies will be part of the course. Frontline
activists and researchers on human rights, peace and reconciliation will be
sharing their knowledge and experience with participants towards developing
an enriched collective understanding of issues of justice and peace in South
Asia.

Applications must reach Peace Studies Desk in the South Asia Forum for Human
Rights (3/23, Shree Durbar Tole, Patan Dhoka, Lalitpur, Kathamndu, Nepal;
GPO Box 12855, Tel: 977-1-541026; Fax: 527852, E-mail south@safhr.org) by 15
April 2001.




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