[hre-asiapacific] TRANSCEND Peace University - TPU On-Line

TRANSCEND Peace University - TPU On-Line  The world's on-line university
for peace and development studies

Announcing Registration for semester starting February 2006

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 peace
building, conflict transformation, post-war reconstruction,
rehabilitation and reconciliation, development, human rights, and other
related fields.

Please forward this announcement to individuals, organizations, UN
agencies and governments which you believe may be interested in
participating in the TPU's February Semester 2006. 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
January 30, 2006.


http://www.transcend.org/tpu
TRANSCEND PEACE UNIVERSITY (TPU)
February Semester 2006

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.

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.

In the 2006 February Semester TPU will offer the following 33 courses:

   1. Peaceful Conflict Transformation- English, Johan Galtung
   2. Peaceful Conflict Transformation- French, Wilfried Graf
   3. Peaceful Conflict Transformation- German
   4. Peaceful Conflict Transformation- Japanese, Akifumi Fujita, Kyoko
Okumoto, Katsumiko Nakano
   5. Peaceful conflict Transformation- Russian, Olga Vorkonova
   6. Fredelig Konflikt Transformation, Michael K. Sørensen
   7. Transformacion Pacifica de Conflictos, Sara Rozenblum de Horowitz
   8. Conflict Care and Reconciliation, S. P. Udayakumar
   9. Deep Culture in Conflict Culture, Johan Galtung, Wilfried Graf and
Gudrun Kramer
10. Democracy and Development, Paul D. Scott
11. Dialogue, Peace and Development, Katrin Kaeufer and Claus Otto
Scharmer
12. Economics and Peace, J. Galtung, D. Goalstone
13. Gender and Militarism, Gal Harmat
14. The Human Right to Food, George Kent
15. Law and Mediation, Mitra Forouhar, Poul Rynning
16. Learning Peace, Alicia Cabezudo, Magnus Haavelsrud, Catherine
Hoppers
17. Missed Opportunities: Iraq and the Balkans, Jan Øberg
18. Mathematics and Peace, J Galtung and D Fischer
19. Nonviolent Tools and Philosophy, Jørgen Johansen
20. Peace and Arts, Olivier Urbain
21. Peace Building, Gudrun Kramer
22. Peace Business- English, Howard Richards and Jack Santa- Barbara
23. Peace Business- Spanish, Sara Horowitz
24. Peace Futures, Sohail Inayatullah
25. Peace and Film, Paul D. Scott
26. Peace and the Global Compact, Fred Dubee
27. Peace, Gender and Violence, Zulfiya Tursunova, Celia Cook-Huffman
28. Peace Journalism- English, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick
29. Peace Journalism- German, Nadine Bilkman
30. Peace and Literary Expression, Marisa Antonaya
31. Peace Museums, Christophe Bouillet
32. Peace and Psychology, Takehiko Ito, Finn Tschudi
33. Peace Zones, Christophe Barbey


Starting Date: February 20, 2006 (or two weeks after the minimum number
of students is met for that course)
Ending Date: May 15, 2006

Deadline for Registration: January 30, 2006

Cost per one Course: For EU/Western Europe, North American, Japanese and
South-East Asian/Australian, participants 500 Euros. For all others 200
Euros.

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: tpu@transcend.org
Fax +40-264-420298
Web-site www.transcend.org/tpu




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