TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) new semester!

TRANSCEND Peace University is the world's first global peace university
for policy makers, practitioners, scholars, students, UN staff and others
working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, post-war
reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation, development, human
rights, and other related fields. Please forward this announcement to
individuals, organisations, UN agencies and governments which you believe
may be interested in participating in the TPU's September Semester 2004.
For more information or to apply on-line, please visit
www.transcend.org/tpu. The deadline for applications for the September
Semester is September 17, 2004.

Johan Galtung, the Rector of TPU and one of the founders of peace studies,
invites you to join practitioners and students from around the world
online.

Since 1996, 300+ on-site workshops have been offered for 6,000+
participants around the world, using the TRANSCEND manual "Conflict
Transformation By Peaceful Means," published by the United Nations. There
will be certificates; for single courses, diplomas for clusters of courses
and eventually BA, MA; and PhD degrees. Participants may combine online
and onsite courses.

In the Sept. 2004 Semester TPU will offer the following 13 courses:

1. Peaceful Conflict Transformation, Johan Galtung

2. Nonviolence as Political Tool and Philosophy, Jorgen Johansen

3. Peace Journalism, Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrick

4. Peace, Music, Literature and the Arts, Olivier Urbain

5. Deep Culture in Conflict, Johan Galtung and Wilfried Graf

6. Democratization and Development, Paul D. Scott

7. Conflict Prevention, Intervention, Reconciliation and
Reconstruction, S.P. Udayakumar

8. Dialogue, Peace and Development, Katrin Kaeufer and Claus Otto
Scharmer

9. Peace and Tourism, Lynda-Ann Blanchard and Freya Higgins-
Desbiolles

10. Peace Business, Jack Santa Barbara and Sara Horowitz

11. Peace and Macro-history, Sohail Inayatullah

12. Peace Museums, Christophe Bouillet

13. Peace Zones, Christophe Barbey

Starting Date: September 27, 2004

Ending Date: December 17, 2004

Deadline for Registration: September 17, 2004

Cost per one Course: For European Union, North American and East
Asian/Australian participants 300 Euros. For all others 150 Euros.

For more information or to register, please contact the TRANSCEND Peace
University Global Center in Cluj, Romania with a staff to handle
information, applications, payments, course related questions, and
computer problems: Fax +40-264- 420298, Tel
+40-724-380551; web-site www.transcend.org/tpu

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PCTR: Advanced International Training Programme on War to Peace
Transitions and Post-War Recovery

Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 22-26, 2004

Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Rebuilding,
Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR) is one of TRANSCENDs most advanced
international training programmes for practitioners, UN staff,
international and national aid and development workers, and those working
in post-war rebuilding, rehabilitation and reconciliation, and war to
peace transitions. The programme also includes special modules on (i)
peacebuilding and conflict transformation before war and violence to
transform conflicts before they become violent and to prevent the outbreak
of war, (ii) mobilising, empowering and strengthening resources and local
and international capacities for peace and conflict transformation for
ending violence during wars, and (iii) developing strategic frameworks and
integrated approaches for peacebuilding and conflict transformation at the
local, national and regional levels for local and national NGOs,
international actors, and UN agencies.

Participants will receive the UN/TRANSCEND manual on Conflict
Transformation by Peaceful Means, together with books, materials and a CD
with the leading resources and workbooks/training manuals on
peacebuilding, conflict transformation and post-war recovery collected
from around the world.

Participants to the course include staff responsible for the development
and implementation of war to peace transition programmes, DDR, conflict
transformation, local dialogue forums, policy development and planning,
and programming in war and post- war contexts. Each PCTR has included
participants from all continents, and gender balance is promoted for all
TRANSCEND programmes.

For more information please visit: www.transcend.org/tpd/tp.php?idtp=15 or
www.transcend.org where you will find the announcement for the programme
on the right column at the top, or write to:

Calina Resteman, [email protected]

Deadlines for applications are October 21st for those requiring visas for
travel to Romania and November 1st for those who do not require visas.
Each programme accepts a maximum of 30 participants, and less than half of
the available positions for this years course still remain. If you know of
colleagues or organisations which may find this programme of interest,
please forward it to them.