[psych-hr] New Graduate Certificate in Psycho-Social Peacebuilding

The School for International Training and
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding Announce :

a New Graduate Certificate in
PSYCHO-SOCIAL PEACEBUILDING
program begins June 3rd, 2002 in Vermont through:
CONTACT—Conflict Transformation Across Cultures


PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Certificate in Psycho-Social Peacebuilding is designed for mental
health practitioners who want to offer their skills in regions of the
world (including the United States) suffering from the effects of war,
mass violence, or intercommunal conflict. Areas of focus will include:
promoting dialogue and reconciliation, addressing the psychological and
social effects of trauma, developing culturally sensitive models and
accommodating indigenous approaches to healing, training local
paraprofessionals, and providing emotional support to humanitarian aid
workers

Through on-campus learning at SIT, two semesters of online course work,
field-based internships, and an overseas seminar, students from around
the globe will develop a deep understanding of the complexities of the
psychosocial aspects of  peacebuilding and will build practical skills in
facilitating intercommunal dialogue, promoting reconciliation, and in
training local care-givers to work with the effects of war trauma.
Graduates will be able to offer these skills to a variety of
international organizations and NGOs.

WHO SHOULD APPLY
We welcome the applications of mental health practitioners with a
doctoral or master's degree in the field of mental health (or with rare
exception equivalent study and training) and at least five years of
professional clinical experience. The program assumes basic skills in
counseling and group facilitation, as well as familiarity with working
with people in crisis.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE
* A three-week Summer Institute at the SIT campus. The first two weeks
consists of a core course in peacebuilding and conflict transformation
for all CONTACT students. The third week focuses on psychosocial
peacebuilding.

* Two semester long on-line course covering a range of topics in
psychosocial peacebuilding.

* Two optional fall weekends with presentations by experts in the field.

* A week long overseas exposure seminar in a conflict region.

* A 3-6 week arranged internship in a conflict region. Potential overseas
sites include: Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Macedonia, Israel, Sierra Leone, South
Africa, and Rwanda.

* A final 4-day seminar during which participants return to SIT to
synthesize their learning and present findings to faculty, and fellow and
newly entering participants.

CORE FACULTY
Dr. Paula Green, Ed.D., CONTACT Co-Director, founded and directs the
Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and serves on the faculty of the School
for International Training, where she developed SIT's programs in
conflict transformation. She has extensive international experience in
peacebuilding, has taught at graduate schools, universities, and other
educational centers worldwide, and has served on the boards of several
international peace organizations. As a facilitator in interethnic
dialogue and conflict transformation, Green has worked in Bosnia, Israel
and Palestine, Rwanda and Eastern Africa, Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, and
many other regions. The author of numerous internationally published
articles and chapters, Green co-edited the textbook, Psychology and
Social Responsibility: Facing Global Challenges.

Olivia Stokes Dreier, M.P.A., M.S.W., Certificate Director, is the
Associate Director of Karuna Center for Peacebuilding and a clinical
social worker with over 20 years of experience working in community
mental health, HMO's, university counseling, halfway houses, and private
practice. Her international experience includes work with the Gandhian
movement in rural India, as well as bi-communal dialogue facilitation in
Bosnia and Sri Lanka. She is Vice-President of the Phelps Stokes Fund, an
operating foundation, that develops capacity-building educational
projects in Africa.

Adin DeLaCour, M.S.W., Certificate Associate Director, is a clinical
social worker in Northampton, Massachusetts, and an Associate of Karuna
Center for Peacebuilding. She has worked for over 25 years in a variety
of settings, including hospital outpatient psychiatry, community mental
health, college counseling, and private practice and has been an adjunct
faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work for 18 years.
Her international
experience includes ongoing work with issues of trauma and genocide in
Rwanda.

To request an information packet, send us an email:
contact@sit.edu (write Psycho-Social Certificate in the subject box)
Please include your complete mailing address.

or visit our website: www.sit.edu/contact/certificate


Thank you,

Christian Sinclair
Program Coordinator
CONTACT-Conflict Transformation Across Cultures
Center for Social Policy & Institutional Development
School for International Training
Kipling Road, Box 676
Brattleboro, VT  05302  USA
tel: 1 (802) 258-3433
fax: 1 (802) 258-3320
contact@sit.edu
www.sit.edu/contact



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