| SIXTH
SOUTH ASIAN ORIENTAION COURSE IN
HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE STUDIES-2006
Applications
are invited for the Sixth South Asian Orientation Course in Human
Rights and Peace Studies. The last date for receiving applications
is 25 March 2006. Application form can be downloaded from-
http://www.safhr-hrps.org/ApplicationForm.doc
and http://www.safhr.org/ApplicationForm.doc
The course
will have three components:
- A three months long distance
learning beginning 1 May 2006;
- field work in August; and,
- a three-week long Direct
Orientation in September 2006.
The Distance-learning
will be conducted on SAFHR's secure e-learning platform. Participants
will also receive the course material on CDs. However, familiarity
with e-learning skills and proficiency in the English language are
essential.
Six compulsory
modules of the course are:
- Basic Concepts of Human
Rights;
- Constitution, laws and
justice;
- Conflicts and the Politics
of Peace;
- "The Global War
on Terror";
- Globalization, politics
of technology and environmental justice, and
- Media and Conflict.
Between thirty
to thirty-five participants, preferably between 25 and 40, will
be selected on the basis of the nature and the quality of their
involvement with the issues of human rights, peace, democracy and
development in the region. Each applicant has to send a filled in
application form, mentioning where he or she has seen the course
advertisement, with two references, and a 1000-word essay explaining
the relation of the applicant's work to human rights and peace studies
and reasons for applying for the course. The selection will be guided
by the necessity to have a balanced representation of participants
from all the countries in the region, women activists, refugee activists,
media practitioners, members of minority groups, researchers, academics,
policy makers, leaders of non-governmental organizations and government
officials. A maximum of four participants from outside South Asia
will be selected.
For the direct orientation, the participants will have to find their
own funding to travel. SAFHR will provide boarding and lodging.
The selected participants
from South Asia will have to deposit a registration fee of US $
100 the latest by 15 April 2006. Participants from outside South
Asia have to pay US $ 400. The enrollment of the participants will
be confirmed only after that.
For further information
on the course structure, content and methodologies, read the fifth
course report at
http://www.safhr-hrps.org/asset/Peace%20studies%20report5.pdf
Electronic,
facsimile and postal submissions are acceptable.
Those sending the applications by post or courier should do so to
the HRPS secretariat at the following address:
South Asia
Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR)
HRPS Secretariat
T-26, Green Park Main
New Delhi-110016
Tel:
+91 11 51682841/ 42
Fax:
+91 11 51682840
email:-
desk@safhr-hrps.org
, desk@safhr.org
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