Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation & Global Development Training Programme
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Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation & Global Development
Training Programme
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Global Development
Johan Galtung
Jan Oeberg
Dietrich Fischer
Kai F. B. Jacobsen
September 3 - 7, 2001
At Diakonhjemmet International Centre, Oslo, Norway
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Global Development, PCTGD
2001, is a five-days intensive training programme for advanced
practitioners, aid and development workers, international diplomats,
journalists and academics, held at DiS, in Oslo, Norway, from
September 3rd - 7th, 2001.
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Global Development (PCTGD
2001) is aimed to help participants strengthen their knowledge and
understanding of the fields of peacebuilding, conflict transformation,
and people-centred, participatory development, building concrete
skills and conceptual resources vital to both the practitioner and to
scholars.
The programme is a joint initiative between TRANSCEND, A Peace and
Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means; the
Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF); the Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF); and Diakonhjemmet
International Centre (DiS).
The PCTGD 2001 training programme offers participants an intensive,
five-days programme designed both to challenge and to stimulate, and
is the first of its kind exploring in-depth the theory and practise of
peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and development work with some
of the leading practitioners and scholars in the world.
Description of the Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Global
Development
5-Days Intensive Training Programme
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Global Development is a
5-days intensive training programme designed specifically for aid and
development workers, national and local level politicians and policy
makers, diplomats, senior NGO staff, human rights and peace workers,
advanced researchers, social activists, journalists and social
workers.
Bridging the fields of theory and practice, the PCTGD 2001 Training
Programme will be useful to all those who wish to understand more
deeply the difficulties and challenges of working to transform violent
and intractable conflicts towards peaceful and constructive outcomes,
and to link the challenges of people-centred, participatory
development with empowerment for active peace work and conflict
transformation.
Designed as a process-oriented approach, the training programme will
seek to respond to the needs and difficulties faced by aid and
development workers, social activists, and politicians and policy
makers in their work and communities, helping them to develop concrete
skills and tools to address the challenges facing them.
A particular focus of the PCTGD 2001 Training Programme will be to
address the relationship between peacebuilding and development,
focussing upon empowerment of local actors and civil society
organisations, as well as the role of international organisations,
NGOs, and governments. The major fault-lines of global conflicts at
the beginning of the 21st century, the challenges for reconciliation
and healing, and the particular dynamics of conflicts in areas such as
former Yugoslavia, Israel-Palestine, India-Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Colombia, and elsewhere, will form core components of the programme.
Held in cooperation by some of the leading organisations in the field,
trainers to the PCTGD 2001 Training Programme include Johan Galtung,
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, Dietrich Fischer and Jan Oberg. Short
bios on all the trainers are presented below.
Building upon the United Nations’ Manual for Conflict
Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach, designed and
developed by TRANSCEND, the PCTGD 2001 Training Programme is a
pioneering programme, and an important step in addressing the
challenges to peacebuilding and development in the 21st century.
THE TRAINING PROGRAMME - September 3 - 7, 2001
The Training Programme will take place from Monday to Friday,
September 3 - 7, 2001. All sessions of the training programme will
take place at the facilities of Diakonhjemmet International Centre
located at Vinderen, Oslo, Norway.
The Training Programme will be divided into a Morning and Afternoon
session for each day, with a 1 hour and 30 minutes break for lunch in
between, and additional breaks for tea and coffee in each session. The
programme will begin each day at 09:00, and run until 17:00.
Monday, September 3rd, Johan Galtung & Dietrich Fischer
09:00 - 12:00 Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: the TRANSCEND
Approach
13:30 - 17:00 Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND
Approach II
Tuesday, September 4th, Johan Galtung
09:00 - 12:00 Peacebuilding, Human Rights and Development: Challenges
for Dialogue and Creativity
13:30 - 17:00 After Violence: The 3 "R" - Reconstruction,
Reconciliation, Resolution
Wednesday, September 5th, Jan Oberg
09:00 - 12:00 Empowering Civil Society and Local Actors for Peace
13:30 - 17:00 Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Thursday, September 6th, Jan Oberg & Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
09:00 - 12:00 Development and Violence: Impact on Local Communities
13:30 - 17:00 Challenging the Roots of Violence: Empowering
Communities for Peace and People-Centred Development
Friday, September 7th, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen
09:00 - 12:00 Peacebuilding and Empowerment: Linking Development and
Peace Work - Challenges to NGOs, Social Activists and the
International Community
13:30 - 17:00 Organisation, Mobilisation, Empowerment: Strengthening
Communities for Peace
Additional evening lectures and activities
The lectures Challenges to Global and Local Peace(s) in the 21st
Century: Global Fault Lines and Globalisation and Peace: Transforming
the Roots of Violence will be organised during the week of September
3rd - 7th, and are open to participants in the PCTGD 2001 Training
Programme as well as the general public.
For those who wish, there will be visits to the International Peace
Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) and the Norwegian Institute for
International Affairs (NUPI). For long distance travelers additional
social activities will be organised.
PARTICIPANTS - Who Can Take Part?
The PCTGD 2001 Training Programme is primarily intended for aid and
development workers, national and local level politicians and policy
makers, diplomats, senior NGO staff, human rights and peace workers,
advanced researchers and social activists. Journalists, social
workers, and others interested in the areas and topics addressed by
the programme are also welcome to apply.
Participants are requested to send in a copy of their CV and the
completed Application Form no later than Monday, August 20th, 2001
(see the end of this document for the Application Form). The programme
is limited to a maximum number of 30 participants, and applicants are
requested to send in their applications as early as possible in order
to guarantee a place in the programme.
Be sure to complete the Application Form included at the end of the
document, and return it to the organisers no later than Monday, August
20th. All applications should be sent either by e-mail or by regular
mail to:
Peacebuilding 2001,
John Y. Jones,
Diakonhjemmet International Centre,
PO Box 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo
e-mail: [email protected]
For more information, see:
www.diakonhjemmet.no
www.transcend.org
THE TRAINERS
Johan Galtung is founder and director of TRANSCEND, a peace and
development network for conflict transformation by peaceful means,
with about 150 invited members from over 50 countries. A professor of
Peace Studies, he is widely regarded as the founder of the academic
discipline of peace research and one of the leading pioneers of peace
and conflict transformation in theory and practice. He has played an
active role in helping mediate and prevent violence in 45 major
conflicts around the world over the past four decades, and is author
of the United Nations’ first ever manual for trainers and
participants on "Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The
TRANSCEND Approach (UNDP 2000) which is an important input to the
training programme. He has taught peace studies at the Universities of
Hawai'i, Witten/Herdecke, Tromsoe, Alicante, Ritsumeikan and the
European Peace University, among others. Galtung established the Peace
Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) in 1959, the Journal of Peace Research
in 1964, and the Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF) in 2000.
He has published more than 1000 articles and over 100 books, including
Searching for Peace the Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000). He is a
consultant to several UN agencies and a constantly traveling
trainer/lecturer. He holds numerous honorary degrees and awards, among
them the Right Livelihood Award (the "Alternative Nobel Prize") for
1987.
Jan �berg is Director of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and
Future Research (TFF). He is the former director of the Lund
University Peace Research Institute; former secretary-general of the
Danish Peace Foundation; former member of the Danish government's
Committee on security and disarmament. Visiting professor in Japan; on
Scientific Committee of International University for Peoples'
Initiatives for Peace, IUPIP, in Italy. Co-initiator of the Danish
Highschool for Peace and the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution.
Some 3600 pages of published academic works. Honorary doctoral degree
from the Buddhist Soka University, Tokyo. Columnist in Nordic
newspapers. Chairman of the board since 1997, director of the TFF and
head of its Conflict-Mitigation team to ex-Yugoslavia and Georgia.
Dietrich Fischer, is Co-Director of TRANSCEND. He is a Professor of
Computer Science at Pace University, New York, and a Visiting
Professor at the European Peace University, Burg Schlaining, Austria.
>From 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and
Security Studies at Princeton University. He is author of Preventing
War in the Nuclear Age (1984) and Non-Military Aspects of SecurityA
Systems Approach (1993) and co-author of Warfare and Welfare (with Jan
Tinbergen, 1987), Winning Peace (with Wilhelm Nolte and Jan Oberg,
1989), Conditions of Peace (with Grace Boggs, et al., 1991), and
Peaceful Conflict Transformation and Nonviolent Approaches to Security
(with Johan Galtung, 1999). He has been a consultant to various United
Nations agencies on questions of disarmament and development.
Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is Co-Director and Board Member of
TRANSCEND, and Director of the Coalition for Global Solidarity and
Social Development. In 2000, together with Johan Galtung, he was
founder of the Nordic Institue for Peace Research. He has worked
extensively in Afghanistan, Russia, South Eastern Europe, North
America, and the Middle East, has an extensive production of research
papers, articles, training programmes and lectures. His most recent
writings include The Struggle Continues: Peace Praxis", forthcoming,
and Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND, together with Johan
Galtung, and Carl Jacobsen (Pluto Press, May 2000).
COSTS and FEES
Participation fees for the full 5-days training programme come to NOK
3500, or approx. USD 400. This includes participation in the training
programme, and all materials, including copies of the United
Nations’ Manual "Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The
TRANSCEND Approach" (UNDP 2000) and "Searching for Peace: The Road to
TRANSCEND" by Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen (Pluto Press, 2000).
Participants from outside Oslo must also arrange for accommodation
while in Oslo for the duration of the programme, and should include
some extra money for costs of living. Hotel prices in Oslo range, on
average, between NOK 500 and NOK 900 a night (USD 60 - 100).
Participants can stay at Rainbow Hotell Gyldenlove, a partner hotel of
Diakonhjemmet International Centre, at about 600 NOK (USD 65) a night
with breakfast. A few rooms will also be available at Diakonhjemmet.
For accomodation contact the Gyldenlove Hotell on tel. 22601090, or
fax. 22603603 (please give our code DIAKON to obtain our discounted
price)
For students and participants from the South there will be discounts
and possibility to apply for scholarships.
For participants from outside Norway, it is important that you check
with the Norwegian Embassy in your country to learn about all possible
travel and visa regulations. Travellers coming from the EU and North
America do not require visas for entering Norway.
THE ORGANISERS
TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict
Transformation by Peaceful Means
TRANSCEND is a network of invited scholars-practitioners working for
peace and development through action, education/training,
dissemination, and research. Local Centres exist in Barcelona/Spain,
Cluj/Romania, Geneva/Switzerland, Hagen/Germany, Vienna/Austria,
Honolulu/Hawai'i, Kyoto/Japan, Moscow/Russia, Sandnes/Norway, Taplow
Court/UK, Torino/Italy, Washington DC/USA, and several other place in
Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. TRANSCEND has conducted more
than 100 training programmes in 30 countries, reaching over 3,000
participants. Participants to TRANSCEND training programmes generally
include diplomats, ambassadors, professors, NGO workers, journalists,
psychiatrists, social workers, international civil servants, and
students. In 2000, TRANSCEND developed the United Nations’ first
ever manual on Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The
TRANSCEND Approach. TRANSCEND information and perspectives are openly
and freely available from our website (www.transcend.org).
The Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF)
The Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF) is an independent
network of scholars-activists in the Nordic countries working in peace
research, development, and conflict transformation by peaceful means.
NIFF's aim is to promote peace by peaceful means, exploring and
enacting nonviolent initiatives to defuse dangerous conflict
formations. NIFF's goal is to re-create the tradition of peace
research in the Nordic countries, pioneering original and creative
research, while contributing to the strengthening of peace education
and peaceful conflict transformation in the region and
internationally, in cooperation with governments, research institutes,
educational bodies, NGOs, and civil society organisations.
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (TFF)
TFF's mission is peace: learning to handle conflicts with ever less
violence against other human beings, other cultures and Nature. It is
a networking organisation with associates all over the globe. TFF
believes that alternatives to the main trends of our time are
desirable and possible -- indeed necessary for humankind to survive
and live with dignity. TFF is critical and constructive. The
Transnational Foundation for Future and Peace Research expresses a
vision and is an experiment in applied research and global networking.
TFF is an independent and innovative force for peace, working in
conflict mitigation, peace research and education to improve conflict
understanding at all levels and promote alternative security and
global development based on nonviolent politics, economics,
sustainability and ethics of care. The results which aim at
decision-makers and citizens alike combine innovative thinking and
theories with workable, practical solutions.
Diakonhjemmet International Centre, DiS, is a part of Diakonhjemmet
College located in Oslo, Norway. DiS is a multidisciplinary center
engaged in training, advocacy and networking, research and evaluations
in development and international relations issues. NGOs and aspects of
people centred development and international peace issues are areas of
particular concern to the centre.
APPLICATION FORM
Name:
Age:
Occupation:
Organisation:
Motivation/reasons for wishing to take part (500 words maximum)
How the training programme will benefit your work (500 words maximum)
Address:
Tel:
E-mail:
Fax:
All applications should be sent either by e-mail or by regular mail
to:
Peacebuilding 2001,
John Y. Jones,
Diakonhjemmet International Centre,
PO Box 23 Vinderen, 0319 Oslo
e-mail: [email protected]
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