Getting ready for the field

Core Course for Peacebuilders, Burg Schleining

The Core Course aims at providing participants with the basic knowledge and skills required in post-conflict and crisis areas, independent of the specific function they will fulfill as experts in their own fields. All the modules should enhance desirable personal attitudes, stress the importance of active involvement in the host society and promote a reflective and critical approach with regard to the complex issues faced in peace-keeping and peace-building. Particular stress is put on the development of a co-operative attitude towards representatives and approaches of governmental and inter-governmental actors involved in peace-building, peace-keeping, development co-operation and humanitarian assistance as well as on the mainstreaming of a conflict- and gender-sensitive approach.

The Core Course includes modules aiming at improving participants’qualifications for working in a multi-cultural and conflict prone society and for contributing to the transformation of conflicts. It gives a basic understanding of major functional tasks in the field as well as of the goals and approaches of actors involved. Participants will also get acquainted with various field-work techniques.

    Peace-Building
    Cultural Awareness
    Cross-Cultural Communication & working with National and International Staff
    Conflict Analysis
    Methods of Third Party Intervention, with a special Focus on Mediation
    Human Rights & their Protection and Promotion
    Democratization & Civil Society Development in a Post-Conflict Environment
    Stress Management & Working with Trauma

Practical exercises include

    a two-day Workshop on Project Management
    Map Reading and handling a Compass
    a Four Wheel-Drive Training
    a Complex Simulation Exercise held outdoors
    Case Studies

Target Group:

People working with national or international non-governmental organizations, international organizations (e.g. UN), governments, the academic or private sectors who want to prepare for field missions in post-conflict and crisis areas in other countries than their own and in their own countries want to serve as multipliers in their own countries and communities, passing on the knowledge and skills obtained in the course

More information on how to apply

Termin:
30.10.2011 (All day) - 12.11.2011 (All day)

Veranstaltungsort
Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
Straße:
Rochusplatz 1
Ort:
A-7461 Stadtschlaining

Referenten:
N.N.
Veranstalter:
Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)

Anmeldekontakt:
Silvia Polster, E-mail: ipt@aspr.ac.at
Kosten:
725,- €/week (incl. tuition, half-board accommodation and course materials)

Förderhinweise
Governmental Scholarships (applicants from Non-OECD-countries, Deadline 30 August)