Courses for Week 2
June 25 - 29, 2007
For students, each class is worth 2 credits.
Choose from one of these four courses:
* Course I: Training for Trainers in Peacebuilding & Development
with Mohammed Abu-Nimer
This course utilizes training approaches and explores their practical applications in peacebuilding and development contexts. It focuses on skills and approaches for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective training courses in conflict resolution, humanitarian assistance, and democracy and governance.
* Course II: Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding & Development in Conflict Areas
with Erin McCandless
This course is designed specifically for the individual and organization working in conflict-afflicted and post-conflict developing country contexts around the world. With emphasis on the community and national levels, the course engages numerous conceptual frameworks and operational methodologies utilized by NGOs and international actors – in particular the United Nations – for peacebuilding, humanitarian coordination, recovery, development and reconciliation/ justice. Students will gain analytical and practical skills and knowledge through a combination of presentations, group discussions, exercises, simulations, and case studies from conflicts around the world, drawing upon their own experiences as well as those of the professor.
* Course III: Reconciliation & Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Environments
with Eileen Borris
This course is designed to provide participants with a thorough overview of the complex issues of forgiveness as it relates to trauma healing, reconciliation and conflict transformation. Participants will explore the social-psychological processes of responding to deep personal loss, pain, and suffering in settings of protracted, violent conflict, and will examine a Trauma Recovery Forgiveness Intervention Model developed for individual and group healing. Of particular interest will be the different ways in which forgiveness is understood in spiritual, social, and political terms. Participants will engage in sharing personal reflection within the context of group discussions on the complexities of forgiveness and reconciliation processes as it relates to the rebuilding of war torn and deeply divided societies.
* Course IV: How Can Educators Build Peace in Their Own Communities?
with Patricia Mische
This one-week course explores theories and best practices in educating for peace in local communities, including through both formal and non-formal educational programs ranging from early-childhood through elementary, secondary, higher, and adult levels of education. Emphasis is on experiential, integrative, and deliberative approaches to learning. Peace is defined not only as the absence of violence and war, but also the presence of social justice, human rights, economic well-being, ecological balance, and cultural and spiritual integrity, and this course will explore pedagogical pathways that enhance all these dimensions of peace.
Participants may register for either two credit (graduate) or noncredit. All (credit and noncredit) participants who fully attend and actively participate will earn a certificate that may be used in some educational systems to demonstrate professional development and/or meeting continuing-education requirements.
