[hr-education] Conflict Transformation Summer Course (Brattleboro, USA, 31 May-18 June 2004)

Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT):
SUMMER PEACEBUILDING INSTITUTE
(May 31 - Jun 18 2004)
Start Date: May 31, 2004
Location: Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

The CONTACT Summer Peacebuilding Institute is a two or three week
residential educational and experiential training that focuses on the
professional development of peacebuilders and their communities, offering
core skills and practical tools for analysing and responding to conflict
in intergroup, communal, and public life. Through the creation of an
engaged and active learning community, the programme strives to foster
both a reflective awareness and hands-on competence required to guide the
process of reconstructing and reconciling broken group relations.

The programme utilises a participatory, experiential approach that
includes case studies, simulations, role-plays, group work, and other
innovative educational methods. Drawing upon the direct experiences of
participants as well as faculty, CONTACT explores ways to confront the
past, intervene in the present, and create a shared vision for a secure
and sustainable common future.

CONTACT Offers:
A theoretical foundation in the political, structural, and psychological
sources and dynamics of violent conflict;
Practical, hands-on training, including classroom and field-based
coursework;
Skills development in conflict analysis, coexistence, and transformative
interventions;
Enhancement of interpersonal, leadership, and technological skills and
competencies;
Continuous support, supervision, and feedback from faculty and peers;
Creation of a network of international peacebuilders assisting each other
across cultures in conflict.

Appropriate candidates for this programme include professionals in
community development, human service or religious organisations, schools,
public agencies, and other nongovernmental or nonprofit organisations who
have a solid foundation in human relations skills and a strong commitment
to coexistence and the transformation of intercultural conflicts.

Visit http://www.sit.edu/contact/institute/index.html for more information.

Registration Details:

The tuition is approximately US$1850 and $765 for room and board for the
full three-week program and earns three graduate credits from the School
for International Training.

Third week course electives may be taken individually for one credit each
at a costs of $600. The following courses are offered during the third
week:


MEDIA AND PEACEBUILDING WITH SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND

This course will explore professional practices in using media to promote
the peaceful resolution of conflicts including the principles of peace
media and the broad range of media tools that can be used for
peacebuilding. Participants will also gain an understanding of the
production process in broadcast media and intended-outcome programming.
Each participant will design a media project adapted to their work and
environment.

Francis Rolt and Oussama K. Safa work with Search for Common Ground as
trainers in conflict resolution and media, and have extensive professional
experience with peace media.


RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS

Instructors Joseph Sebarenzi and Vahidin Omanovic speak with personal
authority when they teach about reconciliation and forgiveness. Joseph is
a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and Vahidin lived through the genocide
in Bosnia. They have spent years observing and reflecting on the process
of reconciliation.

The course will explore concepts and applications of reconciliation as
currently applied in peacebuilding. Participants will reflect on their
capacities for forgiveness and reconciliation in inter-personal and
inter-communal relations, and will develop working drafts of
reconciliation models for particular regions, conflicts and circumstances.


COMPASSIONATE LISTENING: HEALING OUR WORLD FROM THE INSIDE OUT

This course focuses on the fundamentals of Compassionate Listening and
provides the skills and practice necessary to bring this technique into
your daily life, including listening and speaking from the heart in
challenging situations. Listening to the "other" is challenging to the
degree that pain and misunderstanding exist. With intention, open-hearted
listening creates a true foundation for reconciliation and peace.

Instructor Leah Green is founder and director of The Compassionate
Listening Project and internationally recognized as a leader in
Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation.


FUNDAMENTALS OF FUNDRAISING

This course is an intensive, participatory learning program that helps
civil society professionals develop the skills needed to prepare
successful grant proposals. The experiential learning methodology deals
with all essential aspects of grant-based fundraising, from project design
and donor relationships to the production of polished, compelling
proposals.

Participants come to the workshop with a proposal they hope to develop,
whether still at an early conceptualization stage, or an actual proposal
to an identified donor interested in peacebuilding. During the workshop
they will directly apply concepts learned to their real-life funding needs
under the tutelage of instructors Carrol and Jonathan Otto.

Applications due by April 15, 2004.
Contact Information:
Eline Potoski
Co-Manager, Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program
School for International Training, World Learning Institute
Kipling Road, PO Box 676
Brattleboro, VT 05302, USA
Tel: 802-258-3598
Fax: 802-258-3320
eline.potoski@sit.edu
summerinstitute@sit.edu
contact@sit.edu
CONTACT Website http://www.sit.edu/contact/



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