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Austria: IPT Specialisation Course Conflict Transformation

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Country: Austria
Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Registration deadline: 03 Apr 2017
Starting date: 05 May 2017
Ending date: 14 May 2017

During this specialisation course, participants get acquainted with the underlying philosophical approaches, theoretical concepts and practical tools for facilitating conflict transformation in complex constellations. Participants will develop skills and practice a facilitator’s attitude to apply their knowledge in different settings (eg. as inside mediators, as third party, or when working with potential veto groups) and at different societal levels. A strong focus on self-reflection is an integral part of the course.

Participants will:

  • learn the difference between concepts, such as conflict management, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, dialogue, mediation, negotiation, facilitation

  • apply tools for complex conflict analysis (actors mapping, structural power analysis, analysis of cultural meanings, needs analysis)

  • learn how to deal with emotions and irrational aspects of conflict

  • develop key competencies how to promote, support and guide reflective “deep dialogue” processes

  • develop strategies how to deal with dynamics of exclusion and stigmatisation, as well as power asymmetries in conflict constellations


How to register:

To request further information or to apply for IPT courses, please visit our homepage at www.aspr.ac.at/ipt or contact us!

Silvia POLSTER, IPT Administration and Logistics

ipt@aspr.ac.at | +43 3355 2498 506


Austria: Course on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

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Country: Austria, World
Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Registration deadline: 10 Sep 2017
Starting date: 19 Nov 2017
Ending date: 24 Nov 2017

1.Conditions of Participation

This course is set at the operational level and targets senior national and international experts and decision-makers of armed forces (battalion level and above), police (senior police officer), non-governmental/civilian organisations (head of substantive section and above), and the political/civilian administration (head of division/department and above) who are working in the context of peacekeeping and/or international crisis management.

The course language is English and participants must be fully proficient in English in order to be able to engage in discussions and fully benefit from the training.

Late arrivals or early departures cannot be accepted. The intense course programme does furthermore not allow for any additional commitments during the course.

Participants are required to complete selected IDL (Internet-Based Distance Learning) modules in the preparatory phase preceding the residential part of this course. The timely completion of these IDL modules is a precondition for receiving the course certificate. A constant well working internet connection and ongoing presence over email is therefore compulsory for participants.

  1. Selection Criteria and Process

The organizers have formed a Course Admission Board and strive to select a highly qualified group of participants in order to ensure the set course standard. The selection process considers a balance in professional and organisational backgrounds, age, nationality and gender. Qualified women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Since the slots are limited to 30 participants, only the best qualified candidates can be accepted.

Successful candidates will be informed after the completed selection process, which will be approximately 2 weeks after the application deadline.


How to register:

For the application, please use the provided “Application Form” and fill in all relevant information, particularly an active email address that you have regular access to, as we will be sending you important course-related information.

Please note that all information you will provide to us will be kept strictly internal.

Duly completed application forms must be scanned and emailed to:

Ms. Claudia Hofer, hofer@aspr.ac.at, Tel: +43-3355-2498-507

The application deadline is set for 10 September 2017 COB.

IPT Core Course for Peacebuilders

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Country: Austria
Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 12 Jul 2020
End date: 24 Jul 2020
Registration deadline: 12 Jul 2020

Working in the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation requires both, technical know-how and practical skills, as well as the ability for self-reflection and -awareness. This ENTRi-certified Core Course for Peacebuilders introduces basic knowledge and skills around peacebuilding processes, strategies for peacebuilding, third party intervention, conflict analysis and more. It also challenges participants to critically reflect on their own position and its’ challenges and opportunities for their work, as well as strengthening competencies around personal safety and well-being.

Dates: 12th-24th of July 2020
Application Deadline: 05th of April 2020
Application of self-funded Participants can be considered after the Deadline

Participants will:

  • Learn about different peacebuilding approaches
  • Gain important relational and technical skills for the field
  • Understand different aspects of violence and -response
  • Get an overview of different actors in the field and how to cooperate with them
  • Learn how to handle complex risk situations: four-wheel drive training, mine awareness and field orientation

Trainers:

Our trainers combine expertise of working for International Organisations, NGOs and academia in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and crisis-response. Furthermore, we collaborate with military personnel and police officers. All of our trainers employ interactive methods and combine theoretical knowledge with practical application to the working environments of participants.

Further information and registration via: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt

How to register:

Further information and registration via: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt

IPT Master Class on Interactive Conflict Transformation in Nepal

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Country: Nepal
Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 14 Sep 2020
End date: 24 Sep 2020
Registration deadline: 14 Sep 2020

IPT on tour - Nepal

During this Master Class, participants get acquainted with the underlying philosophical approaches, theoretical concepts and practical tools for facilitating interactive peacebuilding-processes and conflict transformation in complex constellations. Participants will develop theoretical skills and practical knowledge in adapting and applying their learnings in different environments and societal levels – for example as inside mediators, as third party, learning companions, community workers or when engaging with potential veto groups.

Dates: 14th-24th of September 2020
Application Deadline: 15th of May 2020
Application Deadline of self-funded Participants can be considered after the Deadline

Set in the beautiful Godavari Village Resort close to Kathmandu, this course invites professionals working in fragile contexts, researchers, educators, social- and community workers, mediators, dialogue facilitators and more operating in contexts affected by conflict and violence. In an international and interdisciplinary group-setting, participants acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills in interactive conflict transformation together with guidance and support to adapt and apply the learnings in their respective environment. Participants further have the opportunity to engage in sharing of best practices, lessons learned and strategies to respond to challenges and opportunities in the field. This will be complemented by techniques fostering self- and collective-care and awareness.

Participants will:

  • Understand the difference between concepts, such as conflict management, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, dialogue, mediation, negotiation and facilitation
  • Learn to apply tools for complex conflict analysis (e.g. actors mapping, structural power analysis, analysis of cultural meanings, needs analysis)
  • Develop key competencies on how to promote, support and guide reflective, deep dialogue processes
  • Acquire strategies on how to deal with dynamics of exclusion and stigmatisation, as well as power asymmetries in conflict constellations Gain knowledge and skills to strengthen well-being, reflection and awareness on one’s own conflict behaviour and to engage with conflicts as opportunities for change, rather than destruction

Trainers:

Mag.a Gudrun Kramer is the director of the ASPR and board member of the Herbert C. Kelman Institute and OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of conflict transformation gained through her work in different conflict zones, such as South Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. From 2010-2017 she joined GIZ as Head of Programs related to 'Supporting Palestinian Refugees', and, amongst others, has delivered lectures and trainings at various universities in Austria, at the OSCE Academy in Kyrgyzstan, the Université de Paris Sud and more.

Dr. Wilfried Graf is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Integrative Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Vienna (IICP), today Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (HKI), with associates in Vienna, Jerusalem and Ramallah. He has been working as advisor, trainer and senior research fellow in conflict regions and post-conflict societies, particularly the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia and Sri Lanka. Today his work focuses primarily on Israel/Palestine. He is lecturer and trainer at several universities and has co-developed a specific approach to 'interactice conflict transformation', integrating the approach of 'Complexity Thinking' (Edgar Morin) and the interactional approach of 'Interactive Problem Solving' (Herbert C. Kelman).

MMag.a Julia Scharinger, MA, manages the IPT-Programme. As a Peace- and Community Worker and Narrative Practitioner she has been accompanying individuals, families, communities and organisations invested in dealing with the past and transformative justice, in gender- and social justice, as well as creative peacebuilding-processes primarily in Southeast- and South Asia, as well as Austria. Her work and curiosity is underpinned by the exploration of individual and collective narratives that invite experiences of peace, agency and connection in one’s life.

Further information and registration via: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt

How to register:

Further information and registration via: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt

COVID-19: What’s Next? High-Level Discussion

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Organization: iVolunteer

COVID-19: What’s Next? High-level discussion is an effort to foster global dialogue on the next steps to recover from the Pandemic. We also want to highlight the best practices from local communities to reimagine 'the new normal' in the recovery process.

World’s Leading experts will be joining us from diverse backgrounds including Academia, International Civil Service, Private Sector, Healthcare, Public Service, Social Entrepreneurship, Financial Services, Scientific Community and Youth Community Leadership.

The speakers and the topic of discussion are as follow:

Ms.Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary UN Climate Change - Tackling the Environment and Climate Crisis for a Better Future

Dr David Nabarro, Special Envoy for COVID-19, World Health Organization - Transformation of global health and development

Ms.Ludmila Duncan, Member of Parliament Member - Parliament of St Maarten - Approaches and Best Practices in Tackling Pandemic.

Mr.Uchita De Zoysa, Principal Architect, SDG Transformation Lab - The path for Sustainable Transformations

Ms.Ann Rosenberg, Senior Vice President UN Partnership, SAP - Scaling Innovation and Technology in a post-pandemic world.

Ms.Michelle Gale, Director, Green Economics Institute - Setting the Stage for Sustainable Economic Recovery

Mr Ahmad Alhendawi, Secretary-General (CEO), World Organization of Scout Movement - The Role of Children and Youth

The session will be Moderated by Mr Saffran Mihnar, Director of Development and Communications

The above session is hosted by EarthLanka in Collaboration with Impact Voices, IVolunteer International, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI, StreamYard, Greener Future and My Climate Action Qatar.

How to register:

Watch the discussion at https://youtu.be/N4qTs0Mi96k

Critical Feminist Justpeace

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 26 Aug 2020
End date: 26 Aug 2020
Registration deadline: 19 Aug 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Critical feminist justpeace is an intersectional theory of change that revises John Paul Lederach‘s conflict
transformation approach and its stated goal of justpeace. The theory specifies goals and processes
that are grounded in the close study of women‘s peacebuilding organizations from Manipur, India, but
it aims to be flexible enough, through a strong emphasis upon self-reflexivity and attention to context,
to apply to local conflicts and peacebuilding across the world. The theory seeks to make Lederach‘s local-
level work gender-conscious and intersectional, essentially accomplishing what the Women, Peace,
and Security agenda (best known for UNSCR 1325) has done for UN peacebuilding on a global scale. The
lecture will introduce the theory and provide illustrative examples of peacebuilding activities that were
and were not critical and feminist from Manipur.

ABOUT THE LECTURER
Dr Karie Cross Riddle is an assistant professor of political science at Calvin University (Michigan), where
she also works closely with the global development studies program. She graduated with her PhD in
peace studies from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
(Indiana), specializing in feminist political thought and its ties to peace practice. Riddle‘s research focuses
particularly on how critical feminist methodologies can uncover marginalized voices and practices,
bringing them to bear on local and global peace and development work. She has conducted research in
India and has worked as an advocate against child labour in Nepal.

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice.

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908

"Queering Peacebuilding": Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Peacebuilding

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 9 Sep 2020
End date: 9 Sep 2020
Registration deadline: 2 Sep 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Although the integration of gender perspectives has, at least on paper, been a prominent aspect of
peacebuilding for several decades, there has often been little or no attention paid to the inclusion of
diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions (SOGIE) in theory, policy, research or
practice. Using the case studies of Colombia and Syria, the lecture examines some of the complexities
of ‚queering‘ peacebuilding and different forms of agency as well as vulnerabilities of persons of
diverse SOGIE in violent conflict, displacement and peacebuilding.

ABOUT THE LECTURER
Dr Henri Myrttinen is a Lead Associate with Gender Associations, a Berlin-based consulting company,
and has over 15 years of experience of researching and working on issues of gender, peace and
security, including diverse SOGIE issues. He holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies
from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908

Why Intersectionality is not a Luxury

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 23 Sep 2020
End date: 23 Sep 2020
Registration deadline: 16 Sep 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
As of today intersectionality is a term used broadly in different discourses. However, there are many
misunderstandings and incongruencies surrounding it. What is intersectional discrimination? How
are discrimination, systemic inequality, oppression, and representation interconnected? And how
does it need to be considered for peacebuilding?
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ABOUT THE LECTURER**
Dr Emilia Roig is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectional Justice (CIJ),
a Berlin-based organization advancing justice, equality, and a life free of systemic oppression for
all. She has taught - and teaches - graduate and post-graduate courses on Intersectionality Theory,
Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race Theory and International and European Law. She has worked
extensively on Human Rights issues at the UN in Tanzania and Uganda, at the German Agency for
International Cooperation (GIZ) in Cambodia, and at Amnesty International in Germany. She holds a
Ph.D. in Political Science, a Master of Public Policy and an MBA. She is Jury member of the German
Non-Fiction Book Prize 2020 and was also in the Jury of the 25 Women Award of Edition F in 2019.
She was appointed as external expert to the European Commission in 2019.

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908


Overcoming Violence and Exclusion towards Peace and Inclusion - Experiences from Sri Lanka

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 21 Oct 2020
End date: 21 Oct 2020
Registration deadline: 14 Oct 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Based on experiences from Sri Lanka, Dr Ariyaratne invites the participants to reflect on processes of
violence and exclusion in the context of a multireligious and multi-ethnic society together including
potential responses. Sharing more about Sarvodaya’s work as a grass roots development movement
based on Buddhist teachings, he will then discuss collective action for peacebuilding, as well as challenges
and successes in overcoming structural violence, hatred, and exclusion in a post-war society.

ABOUT THE LECTURER
Dr Vinya Ariyaratne is a medical doctor specialized in public health. He serves as the President of the
Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka which is by far the largest grass roots development
organization in the country. Dr Ariyaratne has been involved in development, peace building and reconciliation
work in Sri Lanka for over 20 years.'

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908

Refugees as Active Agents in Peacebuilding-Processes

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 18 Nov 2020
End date: 18 Nov 2020
Registration deadline: 11 Nov 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
Refugees in neighbouring countries, refugee returnees and resettled refugees can change the peacebuilding
landscape of their countries of origin. They can either be „spoilers“ or active agents engaging
with other actors and institutions, leading to inclusive and sustainable peace. What factors
or context conditioned the choices and role of refugees, and how can we harness the resources of
refugees towards peacebuilding process? Using cases from Africa, and drawing on the refugee resettlement
practices of Canada, this lecture will address the above questions.
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ABOUT THE LECTURER**
Amanda Coffie (PhD) is a Research Fellow at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy,
University of Ghana. She earned a PhD from the Department of Political Science, Carleton University,
Ottawa, Canada. She also holds an MA in Political Science and a BA in Political Science from
Brock University, Canada, and the University of Ghana, respectively. Her work attends to issues of
refugees, diaspora, governance of migration and asylum, and programs of host countries and international
organizations as well as post-conflict peacebuilding.

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908

Peacebuilding and the Decolonial Future

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Organization: Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution
Start date: 2 Dec 2020
End date: 2 Dec 2020
Registration deadline: 25 Nov 2020

ABOUT THE LECTURE
This lecture unpacks how the key characteristics of coloniality are fundamentally incompatible with
peaceful societies. It shows how such characteristics are intimately intertwined with conflict and, are
therefore, essential to address in strategies for conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

ABOUT THE LECTURER
Terri Beswick is a British-Jamaican Strategist and Facilitator. She runs iklektik, a purpose-driven
consultancy practice that is designed to cultivate new and explicitly transformative ways of knowing,
ways of being and ways of doing in social and political action, rooted in decolonial practice. Before
iklektik, she worked with NGOs, civil society networks, think tanks, and with the EU on different
aspects of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, social justice and human rights for over a decade.

This lecture is part of the IPT Online Lecture Series 2020: Caring Conversations for Peace and Justice

How to register:

https://www.tfaforms.com/4842908

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