Current Events

24 February 2012 - Atrium.

Commemoration Act of Cuban Independence War 24 February, 10:00 – 11:00 Commemoration Act of the Cuban Independence War. (Reopening of the Monument of Jose Marti

22 February 2012 - Clasroom #1.

22 de febrero, 12:15 – 13:00 by Associate Vice Rector and professor, Victor Valle

17 February 2012 - Class Room #1 - 12:15–13:30pm.

Dr. Garry CAPLAN Friday, 17.02.2012, Class Room #1 12:15 – 13:30 pm

Gerald Lewis (Gerry) Caplan, PhD is a Canadian academic, public policy analyst, commentator and political activist. He has had a varied career in academia, as a political organizer for the New Democratic Party, in advocacy around education, broadcasting and African affairs and as a commentator in various Canadian media. Caplan has a Masters in Canadian history from the University of Toronto and a doctorate in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is an authority on genocide and genocide prevention; specifically he is an internationally recognized expert on the Rwanda genocide. In 2000, he wrote a report on the subject, Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide for the Organization of African Unity's International Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda. For the previous 2 weeks Caplan has thought the MPS course „The Role of Media in the Rwandan Genocide” at UPeace.

13 February 2012 - Classroom 1 .

Ms Ileana Chacon is residing in Ciudad Colon, she is physically impaired (blind), and is extremely well-versed with her subject. In addition, she speaks English very well.

Her main focus will be on the following topic and points: Disability and Human Rights - How is disability a human rights issue? - UN Convention on Human Rights - Highlights on the states obligation on implementation of these rights. - Importance of participation by the people with disability ( that the people have the right to participate).

On the other hand, Mary Krumweidi, a student with a disability at UPEACE is also interested in sharing her experiences. Therefore, she will strongly take part in this forum along with Ms Elleana.

For more information, contact Priya Pandey at ppandey@master.upeace.org

06 February 2012 - Campus Rodrigo Carazo.

Middle Eastern Night celebration

2-3 February 2012 - Campus Rodrigo Carazo.

Council of the University 21st Session 2-3 February 2012

30 January 2012 - Class #3 - 2:30-4:00PM.

Dr. RICHARD JOLLY: BIOGRAPHY 2:30PM - 4:00PM

Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where he was Director in the 1970s. He has been a Trustee of OXFAM, a Director of the Overseas Development Institute and Chairman of the UN Association of the United Kingdom. He is currently President of the British Association of Former UN Civil Servants.

From 1982 to 1996, Richard Jolly was an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, serving as Deputy Executive Director responsible for UNICEF’s programmes worlwide. He was then until 2000, senior adviser to the Administrator of UNDP and coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report. Since leaving the UN he has been working on multi-volume history of the UN’s contributions to ideas and policy in the economic and social arena. The final volume of this has just been published as “UN Ideas That Changed the World”. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 for his services to international development.

24 January 2012 - Classroom 1.

Elizabeth Gilroy, who is an activist here in Costa Rica (originally from the USA), will be offering this forum on Human Trafficking in Costa Rica. She has a small organization called Freedom Street Ministries. Her main focus is on prostitution and trafficking of women.

For more information and details regarding this event, please contact Pamela Svojanovski (IPS,2012) at psvojanovski@master.upeace.org

11-13 January 2012 - UPEACE Campus.

ORIENTATION PROGRAMME

11 to 13 January 2012 Council Room

10 January 2012 - Classroom #2 at 3:00PM.

Failed Statebuilding Versus Peace Formation by Prof. Oliver P Richmond

Oliver Richmond is a Professor in the School of IR, University of St. Andrews, UK, and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is also International Professor, School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University, Korea. His publications include Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2013), A Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012), A Post Liberal Peace (Routledge, 2011), Liberal Peace Transitions, (with Jason Franks, Edinburgh University Press, 2009), Peace in IR (Routledge, 2008), and The Transformation of Peace (Palgrave, 2005/7). He is the editor of the Palgrave book series, Rethinking Conflict Studies. He can be contacted on opr@st-andrews.ac.uk. This article represents the theoretical framework for a forthcoming book (Yale University Press, 2013). Thanks to Annika Bjorkdahl, Yiannis Tellidis and Sandra Pagodda for their helpful comments. All errors are the author's alone.

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