| ACADEMIC PROGRAMMES
Academic Course Calendar 2008-2009
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Master of Arts in Gender and Peacebuilding
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| April 2008 | |||
| First Term: August-December | |||
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| COURSES | PROFESSOR | CREDITS # Weeks |
DATE |
| Orientation | AA | 3 days | 20 Aug - 22 Aug. 2008 |
| PCS-6000
Foundation Course in Peace and Conflict Studies M |
UPEACE Resident Faculty | 3 credits 3 Weeks |
25 Aug - 12 Sep. 2008 (15 Sept.) |
| GPB 6011
Gender Studies and Peacebuilding M |
Sara Sharratt Costa Rica |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
17 Sept - 7 Oct. 2008 |
| GPB 6060
Gender and Human Rights M |
Elize Delport South Africa |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
13 Oct - 31st Oct. 2008 (12 Oct) |
| GBP 6030
Cultures and Learning: From Violence towards Peace O |
Tony Jenkins U.S.A. |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
5 Nov. - 25 Nov. 2008 |
| GPB 6020
Research Methods R |
Amr Abdalla Egypt |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
1st Dec. - 19 Dec. 2008 |
| Second Term: January-May | |||
| Orientation for NRSD | AA | 2 days | 8 Jan. - 9 Jan. 2009 |
| ELECTIVES
O |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
12 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2009 | |
| GPB 6041
Health and Gender Studies: Issues of Peace and Conflict R |
Ana Arroba Britain/Ecuador |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
2 Feb. - 11 Feb. 2009 (8 days) |
| UPMUNC | STUDENTS' ACTIVITY |
3 days | 12 Feb. - 14 Feb. 2009 |
| GPB 6022
Gender Mainstreaming in Peacekeeping Operations and in Humanitarian Assistance M |
Nadine Puechguirbal France |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
18 Feb. - 10 Mar. 2009 |
| GPB 6090
A Gender Analysis of the Environment and Sustainable Development R |
Lorena Aguilar Costa Rica |
3 credits 3 Weeks |
16 Mar. - 3 Apr. 2009 (Easter 6- 10 Apr.) |
| GPB 6010
Peace and Non-Violent Transformation of Conflict R |
Mary King United States |
2 credits 2 Weeks |
13 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2009 |
| GPB
The construction of sexuality M |
Jacobo Schifter Costa Rica |
1 credit 1 Week |
27 Apr. - 30 Apr. 2009 (1 May) |
| GPB 6050
Practices of Conflict Management and Peacebuilding M |
Matthew Norton U.S.A. |
3 credits 2 Weeks |
4 May - 15 May 2009 |
| Third Term: June-July | |||
| INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
M |
Dina Rodríguez Perú |
7 credits | Due 26 June 2009 |
| GPB 6031
Seminar M |
1 credit 5 Days |
Across the academic year | |
| GRADUATION: 10 July 2009 |
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| M=Mandatory Courses | 5 Courses (3 crd each) 1 Course (1 crd) Independent Research Project Seminar |
15 Credits 1 Credit 7 Credits 1 Credit |
| TOTAL | 24 Credits | |
| R=Required Courses | 2 Courses (3 crd each) 2 Courses (3 crd each) |
6 Credits 4 credits |
| TOTAL | 10 Credits | |
| O=Optional Courses | 2 Courses (3 crd each) | 6 Credits |
| TOTAL | 6 Credits | |
TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION: 40 |
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Master of Arts in Gender and Peacebuilding
2008-2009
Course Description
PCS-6000
Foundation in Peace and Conflict Studies 3 credits
UPEACE Faculty
The University for Peace Foundation Course in Peace and Conflict Studies is designed to engage students in an examination of the major contemporary challenges to peace, sources of conflict and violence, and several key nonviolent mechanisms for conflict transformation and prevention. The course is designed to provide a common foundation for UPEACE students from all of the different M.A. programs (as its name suggests). During the course, an understanding of the complex and interconnected challenges to peace will be developed, as will an understanding of the need for multi-faceted approaches to meeting these challenges. Students will also engage critically with theories of conflict, and will develop their understanding of the theoretical resources available in the area of conflict studies. During the course of their studies at UPEACE students will engage in increasingly specialized inquiry into various dimensions and issues in their specific MA areas. The foundation course provides an opportunity to explore connections, sympathies, and synergies between the challenges and approaches identified in all of these areas from a “wide-angle” perspective that will encourage students to continue making such interdisciplinary connections and analyses throughout their tenure at UPEACE and after. Back to top
GPB-6011
Gender Studies and Peacebuilding 3 credits
Professor Sara Sharratt
The course analyzes the complex relationships between gender, violence and peace. The perspective proposed is that of political theory which will allow for a detailed analysis of the specific relations of gender and power including but not limited to economic power. Back to top
GPB-6060
Gender and Human Rights 3 credits
To be declared
The course will therefore develop from the idea that human rights are the basis for peace, justice and democracy and that there can be no peace without justice and no justice without human rights from a gender perspective. Human Rights will be defined as a code of conduct, an agenda for development, a guide for good governance, based on the principles of equality, accountability, participation and legally. Back to top
GPB-6030
Cultures and Learning: From Violence towards Peace 3 credits
Professor Tony Jenkins
This course has two primary learning goals. The first is to develop a deep and critical understanding of the underlying causes of violence by examining the origins of violence in the human community to its current institutionalized presence. This inquiry is an essential step in acquiring the necessary knowledge, skills and capacities to be able transform the institutions and unquestioned beliefs that promote and sustain systems of direct and indirect violence. We will give special attention to the lenses of militarism; socio-economics and patriarchy (gender) as metaculprits/cultural reproducers of a system of violence. Back to top
The second goal is to develop a deep sense and awareness of how we (collectively and individually) learn and the relationship of learning to change. In so doing we will examine a variety existing literature on the philosophy of education and educational change. Special emphasis will be given to inquiring into the formation of our own attitudes and beliefs.
GPB-6020
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods 3 credits
Professor Amr Abdalla
This course will develop student’s theoretical knowledge and applied skills in conducting qualitative, quantitative and participatory research in the fields of peace building and conflict analysis and resolution, with a strong emphasis on gender issues and their cultural implications. Back to top
GPB-6022
Gender mainstreaming in peacekeeping operations and in humanitarian assistance 3 credits
Professor Nadine Puechguirbal
This course is designed to provide theoretical as well as field-based knowledge on the gender dimension of peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance. Throughout the two weeks, the students will be exposed to the major trends that have been used for the incorporation of a gender perspective in peacekeeping and humanitarian fields. Policies, programmes and practical case studies will be shared with the students with the aim of getting a thorough understanding of the positive and negative aspects of peacekeeping operations and humanitarian activities in different environments worldwide. At the end of the two-week course, the students shall be able to understand the cost of ignoring gender in peacekeeping mission and the delivery of humanitarian assistance and to analyze current situations with a gender perspective. Back to top
GPB-6090
A Gender Analysis of the Environment and Sustainable Development 3 credits
Professor Lorena Aguilar
The three-week course “A Gender Analysis of the Environment and Sustainable Development” is designed to provide technical, methodological and practical inputs in order to understand the importance of gender issues for the environmental sector. Throughout the three weeks the students will be exposed to the major trends that have been used for the incorporation of gender in the environmental sector. Also, practical skills will be gain in order to mainstream gender in the project cycle (elaboration of proposals, planning, monitoring and evaluation, indicators), specific ecosystem analysis from a gender perspective (coastal zones, forest, watersheds, semiarid and arid zones, protected areas and biodiversity) and elaboration of gender policies for the environmental sector. Back to top
GPB-6041
Health and Gender Studies: Issues of Peace and Conflict 3 credits
Professor Anna Arroba
Health and access to health care is a human right, so is the capacity to determine our sexuality and to live without violence. Most women in the world, whether at war or in peace, do not have these or any rights, a vast majority live in poverty and at the same time they are responsible for all their families, and for the simple fact of being female they have to bear the endemic gender violence of their particular cultures in its varied forms: incest, rape, genital mutilation, kidnapping, sexual and psychological violence, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, etc...
In order to make changes it is important to understand how we have arrived at this situation, to do this we will analyze the situation of women from a historical and anthropological ´history and politics of the body´ perspective, which also includes, gender, rights, class ethnicity, colonialism, post-colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as categories and hierarchies such as sexualities and racisms. Back to top
GPB-6050
Practices of Conflict Management and Peacebuilding 3 credits
Professor Matthew Norton
In the first part of the course we will first look at the Conflict Resolution approach to theorizing conflict, understanding its origins, the vocabularies for speaking of conflict in ways that “get to the heart of the issue” and focusing on the root causes. Then we will move on to a critique of what talking in these ways fails to say – and with what repercussions – about gender, power, privilege, and difference. The second part of the course addresses various responses to conflict. The third part looks at peace processes and the challenges presented by the concept of peace building. Back to top
Faculty
Sara SHARRATT (USA – Costa Rica), Ph.D in Clinical Psychology and Professor Emerita of Psychology from Sonoma State University, California where she taught for 18 years. She specializes in Gender Studies and Feminist Psychology. Back to top
Tony JENKINS (USA), Co-Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University; the Global Coordinator of the International Institutes on Peace Education (IIPE); and Coordinator of the Global Campaign for Peace Education. He has extensive international consultative experience, including work with ministries of education, universities, NGOs and UN agencies. His current work focuses on pedagogical research and educational design and development with special interest in alternative security systems, disarmament and gender. Back to top
Amr ABDALLA (Egypt), Professor and Dean for Academic Programmes at the University for Peace. Prior to his arrival at UPEACE he was a senior fellow with the Program on Peacekeeping Policy, School of Public Policy, at George Mason University. He was also a Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences. Back to top
Nadine PUECHGUIRBAL, (France), She has been working as the Senior Gender Advisor for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) since June 2004. She recently took part in a two-month start-up mission to open the Gender Office of the UN Mission in Central Africa and Chad (MINURCAT). In October 2006, Ms. Puechguirbal received her PhD on the subject “Gender perspectives in post conflict: comparative study between Somalia, Rwanda and Eritrea” at the Department of Political Sciences, University La Sorbonne, Paris, France. Back to top
Lorena AGUILAR (Costa Rica), has a Master’s degree in anthropology; cultural ecology major from the University of Kansas. Nine years of work in the field of development and design of public policy projects in Central America, and eight years actively engaged in the incorporation of social and gender aspects into the use and conservation of natural resources in Mesoamerica. Her current position is Global Gender Advisor to the World Conservation Union and Regional Coordinator of the Social Area in Mesoamerica. Back to top
Anna ARROBA (British – Ecuador), has a Master’s degree in gender, history and cultural studies. Is founder and current director of the ONG Women in Health Association (AMES) that woks to provide health and medical services through research and direct action to costarrican women. She has more than thirty years of experience on research and teaching as consultant and professor in universities and UN agencies worldwide. Back to top
Matthew NORTON (USA), received his Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford. He is a PhD student in the department of Sociology at Yale University, and a Junior Fellow of Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology. He was the director of the International Peace Studies Master’s degree programme at UPEACE 2003-2005. Back to top
Dina RODRIGUEZ (Peru), Head of Department of Gender and Peace Education.MA in Education, University of Texas, at Austin, USA; BA in Mathematics, Alverno College, Milwaukee, USA; BA in Teaching, National University of Education, Peru. Trained in Human Right and Gender Studies at the International Institute of Human Rights, Rene Cassin, Strasbourg, France. Certificate: Building Capacities for Peacekeeping and Women’s Dimensions in Peace Processes, European Union-Latin American Office, Santiago, Chile. Director of the Educational Area: Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, San Jose, Costa Rica. Director: Center for Educational Resources (IIDH), San Jose, Costa Rica. Consultant; Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento, Brasilia, Brazil. Programme Officer, Ministry of Education, Lima, Peru. Disciplines: Human Rights Education, Gender and women’s Studies, Education for Peace. Back to top