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| I. ARCA News on Peace Education - Events, training courses and conferences - |
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1. EU: ARCA Event in Germany  4- 6 May 2007 Bonn, Germany, The Arca Partnership presents: Conflict Resolution Experiences in three different Intercultural Communities. The Institute for applied cultural research (IFAK), Germany will present the concept of training for people with migration background to became cultural interpreter. Thérapie Sociale (Introduction by Federation of Social Defence, Germany – BSV) is to make the peaceful living together of people with different cultural backgrounds possible and productive. Partner for Democratic Change Slovakia (PDCS) presents a project of Collaborative Planning and Conflict Transformation in the Slovak communities with a majority of Roma people. For further information on the Event you can visit the webpage at the ARCA portal or you can contact: office@soziale-verteidigung.de |
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| 2. AUSTRIA - 6 May – 19 May 2007 The Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) organise the International Civilian Peace-Keeping And Peace-Building Training Program - Core Course The 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 fulfil 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 sensitive approach. - 20 May – 1 June 2007 Specialisation Course On Conflict Transformation: The Specialisation course aims at enhancing the effectiveness of specialists in fields other than conflict transformation by adding skills for their conflict sensitive action. They can thus improve their daily work in the field, even if they are not primarily conflict workers. It also helps practitioners of conflict transformation to adapt their pre-existing knowledge to the field work context. During the course there will be a person from UN Volunteers (UNV) conducting job interviews with participants interested in joining UNV. For Both May-Courses A Limited Number Of Places For Self-Funded Applicants Is Still Available! For further information on the IPT training courses in 2007/08 (including application-deadlines, information on scholarships etc.) please visit the website www.aspr.ac.at/ipt.htm or write to to Ms. Silvia Polster ipt@aspr.ac.at |
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3. ITALY 9 March 2007, 17.00-19.00 in Bolzano, Italy: Vesna Terselic, (coordinator of the Anti-War Campaign Croatia, expert in Peace Studies and Women Studies, Director of the Center for Peace Studies of Zagreb) give a public lecture on "The role of civil society in confict transformation". Language of the event: English with translation in Italian. Venue: Bolzano, Formazione Professionale, Via Santa Geltrude, 3 (Aula verde). The event is organised by the University of Bologna, Alexander Langer Fundation, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano in the framework of the European Social Fund-Master for Conflict mediators and international Peace Operators. |
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| 4. UNITED KINGDOM 27 – 29 April, Working for Peace in the Midst of Conflict: is it for me? A simulation course to test your skills and capacity to work in conflict. Ivinghoe (full board, residential), near London, UK: Level 2. For further information visit: www.peaceworkers.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=182 |
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| 5. ROMANIA April 30th - May 4th -2007 Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Rebuilding, Reconciliation and Resolution. A Five-Days International Training Programme for Practitioners, Policy Makers, International and National Agency Staff and NGOs working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and post-war recovery. DEADLINE to Apply: March 25th for Applicants who need the Romanian Visa and April 2nd for Applicants who do not need the Romanian Visa. May 7th - May 11th -2007 Designing Peacebuilding Programmes (DPP) A five-days international training programme for practitioners, policy makers, international and national agency staff and NGOs working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, violence prevention and post-war recovery, and violence and war affected communities. DEADLINE to Apply: April 2nd for Applicants who need the Romanian Visa and April 9th for Applicants who do not need the Romanian Visa. Organized by TRANSCEND and PATRIR Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania Contact Person: Andra Tanase training@transcend.org Tel: +40-264-420298 For more information and to apply also visit: www.transcend.org/training |
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| 6. SPAIN April 18-20th, 2007, Conference on Nonviolent Popular Joint Struggle - in Bil'in, Palestine This conference hopes to create a network to improve coordination, share resources, support each other's work for justice, and create joint campaigns to stop the Apartheid Wall and end the Israeli occupation. The conference is supported and partially financed by Nova, from Barcelona (Spain), since it is in accordance with the objectives of the project to “Support non-violent strategies in the Middle East” started in December 2005. This project is funded by the Spanish Cooperation agency (AECI). More information about the conference is available here: www.bilin-village.org/conference2007/  |
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| II. ARCA Tools and Publications - New Peace education tools - |
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| 1. UNITED KINGDOM Women, Peace and Security - Six years on from Security Council Resolution 1325 this report looks at its impact and examines the structure, mandate and obligations of the recently established Peacebuilding Commission to 1325. Download the report here. |
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| 2. ITALY 25 April – 15 May: "Hasta la ùltima pietra" (Jusqu'à la dernière pierre). A Documentary on the noviolent resistence to the war of the Peace Community of San José de Apartado (Colombia) will be presented during a Tour in Italy and in Europe with the participation of some Members of the Peace Community. For further details on the video and the initiative please contact: d.garciaduranti@pacedifesa.org. A presentation in French is available here (.PDF - 2'8Mb). |
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| 3. SPAIN Nova publishes the 4th “NoVA – NonViolence Active” supplement of the Catalan magazine "ONGC" on the non-violent and pacifist movement in Israel and the coalition among Israelis and Palestinians against the wall. This quarterly publication is able to download at: www.nova.cat/publicacions (by now, in Catalan, but soon translated in Spanish and English). |
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| III. Presentation of ARCA partner organizations | ||||||
 Institute for Applied Cultural Research (IFAK)The Institute for Applied Cultural Research is a cultural association active since 1988. It was created by cultural and social scientists with the aim to connect science and cultural praxis, to develop political ideas in projects with groups from different fields of the society and to support the development of intercultural competencies. Founder of the Information Center for Development Policy in Göttingen, it coordinated the Working Association of the One World Networks in Germany and initiated the founding of Education 21 in Southern Lower Saxony, a network of the approx. 50 educational institutes in the region. It takes part in several networks: Network Migration, which aims to promote the integration of immigrants, resettles, refugees and foreigners in Göttingen. Archiv³, which was founded in 1998. It is a Network of eleven Documentation Centers in Germany with focus on issues within the range of development politics. Somaliland, where IFAK supports an orthopedic workshop that produces prostheses for mine-victims. IFAK runs different inititives and projects: e.g. it is active in research and praxis of intercultural communication in the frame of the program “Learning Culture Competency Development” of the Ministry for Education and Research. Amogst its publications: Critical Ecology, which is the only journal in German language that deals with issues of ecology and development in an interlinked way. Cargo, which is a journal for cultural anthropology. To know more about IFAK visit www.peacetraining.org/partners/ifak/ | ||||||
 PeaceworkersUK (PWUK) PWUK is part of the Peacebuilding Issues Programme of International Alert (IA). Previously an independent NGO, PWUK become part of IA in 2006. PWUK focuses on raising standards in the field of conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding through an integrated programme of research, training, assessment and recruitment. Peaceworkers UK: works with voluntary organisations, government departments, inter-governmental organisations (IGOs) and other bodies to promote the appropriate use civilians in the prevention, management and resolution of violent conflict and the alleviation of suffering caused by violent conflict. provides education and training programmes to enhance the skills of civilians working in regions affected by conflict. conducts research into the use of civilian personnel for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict. The results of this research are disseminated to an array of parliamentarians, NGOs, government departments, academics and other relevant bodies. The overall aim of Peaceworkers UK is to improve both the quality and quantity of civilian personnel working in the fields of conflict prevention, crisis management and peacebuilding. We believe this requires the establishment of transparent and universal standards of professional competency that can serve as benchmarks for quality performance as well as targets to be achieved through training and placement schemes. The PeaceworkersRegister is the centerpiece of our efforts to build a quality-controlled, independent recruitment service for civilian personnel needed across a wide range of categories in the peace and conflict field. Once a candidate has joined the Register, s/he will have access to, among other things, jobs and training directories. For furthers details on PWUK and their training and register visit: www.peacetraining.org/partners/pwuk/ |
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Nova, Center for Social Innovation (NOVA) Nova promotes social innovation with popular participation and intercultural dialogue to help to generate alternative socioeconomic models to globalization, a culture of peace based on civil alternatives of defence and a more sustainable and participatory society. It collaborates with organizations and institutions interested in starting projects that promote social innovation and provide participative tools and services that allow citizens to become actively involved in these processes, including dialogue between cultures wherever possible. The Nova association was born in the year 2000, but the team behind it has the experience of having taken active part in the Centre d'Estudis Joan Bardina (1983 - 1991) and in EcoConcern (1992-1999), from which it organised the Catalan Forum for Rethinking Society (1996 - 2001) within the framework of the Alliance for a responsible, plural and united world (1995 - 2001). Since 2003, Nova is a member organization of Nonviolent Peaceforce and through the NoViolenciaActiva Team (called "Forces de Pau Noviolentes" till 2006) it promotes activities on culture of peace and nonviolence trying to implement systems of nonviolent intervention and civilian resistance. For furthers details on NOVA, their history and projects visit: www.peacetraining.org/partners/nova/ |
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| Presentations about all ARCA partners in the Peacetraining.org webportal |
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| IV. Peace Education and Peace Intervention - In Europe - |
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| 1. IRAQ/KURDISTAN The workshop of 'Nonviolent Alternatives' had been held in Erbil - Kurdistan- Iraq for the period of 16th -20th of Feb 2007. The event was possible thanks to the coordination and the cooperation between Almesalla Center in Iraq, Un Ponte Per (Italy), NOVA (Spain) and Centre Gandhi (Italy) and with the support of the Catalan agency for development cooperation. With the objective of promoting nonviolence as an alternative in Iraq, 22 participants from all over Iraq discussed the conflict analysis and conflict resolution along with discussion on organizing nonviolence campaigns and peace building in Iraq. More sessions and activities on non-violence will follow soon. More information at: www.laonf.org (in English and Arabic). A narrative report of the workshop is available here (.PDF). |
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| 2. ITALY The new website of Nonviolent Peaceforce in Italian is on line: www.nonviolentpeaceforce.it the new instrument is a tool for a more effective communication between NP and its supporters and donors in Italy. Thanks to the monthly newsletter and the website all people interested in knowing the action of NP for a sustainable pace in Sri-Lanka, Philippines, Uganda and Colombia, will have the opportunity to be always up-to-date on the peacekeeping work of the teams and the progress in the creation of a non-violent peace force. Visit: www.nonviolentpeaceforce.it or write to info@nonviolentpeaceforce.it for any further information. |
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