Call for Applications: The Equator Peace Academy
January 4, 2012 1 Comment
Some colleagues of mine have organized a two-week summer academy to take place in Uganda and Rwanda this summer. It grows out of the passion of several faculty members at Uganda Martyrs University and the work of the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life, and will focus on issues of ethnic and religious tolerance and conflict transformation in east and central Africa. I encourage anyone interested in these issues to consider applying. See the information below:
The Equator Peace Academy (EPA) is an annual international Academy (Summer School) designed to confront thematic issues in selected countries of the Great Lakes Region of Africa. This is a call to all interested parties to participate in the first Academy from 12th to 26th August 2012. The Academy is organised in Uganda and Rwanda under the theme Whose Community? Memory, Conflict and Tradition, with the aim of confronting the problems of intolerance to diversity, divisive governance and the turbulent past. This annual event employs an open, dialogic, experiential, and reflective methodology together with pragmatic solution-based learning to analyze contemporary conflicts in the region (and world over). Our goal is to understand and overcome the type of social segregation and violence that have so often characterized relations between different communities in this region.
Join us by filling the application form on http://www.fiuc.org/umu
The deadline for receiving applications is 25 March 2012
The EPA works as a consortium together with the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life whose program will be held in Indonesia from 3-17th July 2012 http://www.issrpl.org/programs/application.html
See the full call for applications here: Equator Peace Academy Call for Applications
See the ISSRPL Call to Fellows here.
Good mobilization Mr James. I am so much yearning to be part of an educative summer school peace academy. I have been for long puzzled by the justification of ‘just war theory’, wondering who names it just . Considering war as violence, my wonder remains; how just can violence be. Surprisingly the world has tasted the belligerence of democracies, which conspire with the theory to legalize, justify and excuse their violence.
Where is tolerance?…… we have a road to take, a journey to move, and a mission to fulfill.