A week-long training in peacebuilding and conflict transformation will be held under the URI Traveling Peace Academy at the URI International Peace Research Institute (IPRI)in Kerala, India from 23 to 29 August, 2012. The program is supported by URI's President’s Council. The curriculum will be based on John Paul Lederach’s book, Moral Imagination-the Art and Soul of Peace Building and the TPA Training Manual, edited by former URI peacebuilding director Barbara Hartford. A visit to Mithra Niketan Community College (modeled on Tagore’s Santhi Niketan) and Kovalam Beach will be part of the program. Twenty-five students from different parts of the world will be admitted, based on their qualification and experience in the field. URI coordinators and staff will be given preference.
Organizers will provide free tuition, board, lodging and study materials. Participants will have to find their own travel means. (We announce it much in advance, so that interested persons can look for travel grants from other sources). A TPA Course Certificate will be given upon successful completion of the training.
Further details and application form can be obtained by emailing IPRI Director Dr. Abraham Karickam at [email protected].
