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| I. ARCA News on Peace Education - Events, training courses and conferences - |
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| 1. AUSTRIA 27 October, Deadline for the Application to the courses organised by The Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) in January 2007. The two courses are organised in the framework of its International Civilian Peacekeeping and Peace-building Training Program (IPT): 1. Core Course 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 (7 January – 20 January 2007). 2. Specialisation Course On Child Protection, Monitoring And Rehabilitation preparing experts who would like to become involved in monitoring, advisory, and executive functions related to children in crisis areas (21 January – 2 February 2007). The course fee is 630 € / week including half-board accommodation. Application deadline is 27 October. Further information on the programme and application form at: www.aspr.ac.at/ipt.htm |
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| 2. GERMANY 3-5 November 2006: Civil Conflict-Transformation in Germany The German Platform for Conflict Transformation organises this Conference to initiate a dialogue between the several actors in the field and in-country conflict transformation: from Crisis management in communities, Anti-Racism groups in Eastern Germany, to intercultural dialogue. Conference language will be German. Infos: www.ev-akademie-rheinland.de 8-10 December 2006: Congress on Peer Mediation 2006 The yearly congress on peer-education will be organised near Cologne and offer an Open Space for 80 teachers, trainers and other practitioners from peer education projects all over Germany. Infos: www.streitschlichtungskongress.de |
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3. INTERNATIONAL November 15th to December 9th, Nairobi, Kenya: Nonviolent Peaceforce Training For Field Teams. Nonviolent Peaceforce will be holding a core training for field team members and for reserve members (ie. available for future team work), in Nairobi, Kenya. Applicants will be considered for teams in Sri Lanka and the Philippines, and for future teams. If interested, please apply as soon as possible, but no later than October 10th. Criteria for applicants and instructions on how to apply are at: http://nvpf.org/np/english/srilanka/ftmtraining.htm |
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4. ROMANIA October-November 2006, Cooperative Peace Project in Moldova-Transdniestria: In October PATRIR will host an intensive high-level training to raise the level of expertise and engagement for key civil society leaders in M-T who have in the past engaged in peace and conflict work locally. The training will be held over 5 days in Cluj-Napoca, delivered by expert trainers-facilitators. In November, the Cooperative Peace Project in Moldova-Transdniestria will facilitate a workshop in M-T that will bring together 35 civil society leaders from M-T for 3 days of detailed action implementation planning for Civil Society Strategy initiatives - follow up for February 2006 participatory process. Expected outputs include formation of working partnerships and cooperation structures. For information, contact project coordinator, Denis Matveev, at denis.matveev@gmail.com October 23-27 Patrir offers aTraining on Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Rebuilding, Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR): It is a five day training program, which uses the TRANSCEND Method for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means -adopted as a training manual by the United Nations- to explore all three phases of violence and war -pre-violence, violence, post-violence- and what can be done: to transform unresolved conflicts, for war to peace transitions, to empower communities, organisations, and individuals for conflict transformation and peacebuilding, to design and implement effective cease-fire and peace processes, and to develop effective policy responses and programmes for conflict transformation and post-war reconstruction, rehabilitation, reconciliation, and healing. For information, contact International Training Coordinator, Andra Tanase at andra@transcend.org  |
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| II. ARCA Tools and Publications - New Peace education tools - |
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 1. EU: ARCA Project ARCA SURVEY on Adult Training and Education for International and Intra-national Interventions for Peace Building, Conflict Transformation, Mediation and Crisis Management. The preliminary results for 6 Countries are available at the ARCA Webportal, summarised in 6 Reports (Romania, Austria, France, Italy, Slovakia, and Spain). These documents based on data gathered from the respondents to the ARCA QUESTIONNAIREcontain information on the current situation, existing resources and assessment of needs in the field. The country reports, with their diagnosis of the national situations, can serve as a basis for further development and pioneering of peace education of adults as envisioned by the ARCA project in the European countries involved in the project. The country reports data will be gathered in a general report as a base for the rest of the ARCA project products. The reports are available here: www.peacetraining.org/outputs |
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| 2. GERMANY No Blame Approach - online resources: The new site www.no-blame-approach.de is a practical introduction in this anti-bullying methodology. Avoiding the search for guilt the No Blame Approach is especially successful to stop bullying quick and to install supportive networks for the victims. Especially recommended for the work in schools, the approach can be used almost everywhere. |
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| 3. ROMANIA In November the Web portal and web forum of the Cooperative Peace Project in Modova-Transdniestria will be on-line: the tools have the aim of connecting peaceworkers within and between right bank Moldova and Transdniestria, and with organizations internationally. Translation of international best practice, the best locally developed resource materials on peace building and conflict transformation will be accessible on line in a later phase @ the Online Resource Centre. For information please contact: denis.matveev@gmail.com |
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| 4. SPAIN NOVA, Centre for Social Innovation, inform about two new websites dedicated to nonviolence: 1. A website about Active-NonViolence (NoVA), by now in Catalan: www.nova.cat/en/NoViolencia inside the new Nova.cat website (some information in English). 2. The non-violent Iraqi project www.launf.net or www.laonf.org/index-e.htm NOVA has published (in Catalan, but soon translated to Spanish and English) an 8 page insert in a Catalan magazine titled "ONG-C" on the experience of a training for Iraqi peace workers in Amman in January 2006 (600Kb - .PDF). It mentions its contact creation for the next trainings in the Middle East this last July. It will also publish a second one, this October, on the Lebanon situation, monitored by a member of the Nova team, and with ideas/proposals for CPS use in these situations. For receiving it, write to: NoVA, Apt.Correus 145 - 08290 Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona - SPAIN) or contact Nova at novacis@novacis.org. Soon in English and Spanish available at: www.nova.cat/publicacions |
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| III. Presentation of ARCA partner organizations | ||||||
 The Csdc (Centro Studi Difesa Civile) (Civilian Defence Research Centre) is an Italian think-tank funded in 1988 to promote nonviolent and constructive conflict resolution in our societies. It has since contributed to the development of social research on peace and security issues in Italy in different forms. Csdc’s mission is the promotion of constructive conflict management to overcome intra and inter-state tensions. Csdc’s working method is inspired by Gandhi’s principle that a seed is equivalent to a tree. The current fields of activities are: research (social research and policy oriented research), training (nonviolence, conflict transformation, peace education, etc.) and action in the field (especially in dialogue facilitation) and advocacy.To know more about Csdc visit: www.peacetraining.org/partners/csdc | ||||||
 BOCS Foundation has been working on the Hungarian speaking areas (Hungary, and minorities in Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Slovakia) since 1975 (registered in 1994). Its work is aimed at global education (first of all peace and environmental education), international development cooperation (help schooling of poor village girls in India since 1977), rights of future generations and conscientious objectors (some of us were in prison in the communist period of Hungary), sexual and reproductive health and rights, freedom of religions. BOCS has a small staff and a lot of young volunteers. BOCS is member of presidency of the HAND (Hungarian Association of NGOs fo Development and Humanitarian Aid).For further information about BOCS visit: www.peacetraining.org/partners/bocs |
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| More info about all ARCA partners in the ARCA webportal |
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| IV. Peace Education and Peace Intervention - In Europe - |
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| 1. SPAIN In the new sector titled "NoVA - NoViolencia Activa” (Active-NonViolence) you can find information about the developing project of Training on NonViolence for Middle East Trainers in October-November 2007, and the Training on NonViolence in Iraq for Iraqi peace workers in January 2007. These projects are implemented with partners from Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) and the European Network for Civil Peace Services (EN-CPS). Visit: www.nova.cat or www.launf.net NOVA maintained some collaborations with the Spanish Left-Green party to the drawing up of a national law for an ‘Agency of Civilians for Peace’. Download the law's proposals (in Spanish) at www.nova.cat/ca/institut |
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