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- Online Course.

6 week course, starting on August 15, 2011

- Costa Rica.

Recommended for: Students with a particular interest in indigenous populations, international law, environmental law and human rights.

- Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva, Switzerland. 1 - 5 December 2009.

This week-long survey course is designed to provide a general overview of the specific issues relevant to the arms control and disarmament field as it exists today.

- UPEACE Campus, Costa Rica.

By Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi, Global Justice Fellow, Yale University.

- Global via Internet.

The Master of Arts in Sustainable Peace in the Contemporary World is offered through the Distance Education Programme at UPEACE. This is our first online Master’s programme, which will impart UPEACE’s core values, knowledge, principles, research abilities and practices, to a worldwide audience.

- San José, Costa Rica.

The world is changing at an extremely rapid pace, affecting the essence of how we learn, interact, and work. As educators, can we create learning experiences to equip our students for a future that is constantly changing? Learn more about this wonderful course here!

- UPEACE Campus, Costa Rica.

As educators, can we create learning experiences to equip our students for a future that is constantly changing? Join this 1-week intensive seminar!

- UPEACE Campus, Costa Rica.

The University is opening the course Peace Building and Conflict Recovery to all interested.

- UPEACE Campus, Costa Rica.

On Sat 17th April, the University for Peace will be hosting the Climate Change: Disaster or Opportunity? conference at our beautiful campus near Ciudad Colon.

10 January 2012 - UPEACE campus.

Prof. Oliver Richmond, who developed the theory of liberal peace, made a presentation at UPEACE on Tuesday 10 January 2012. He explored often countervailing forces and norms of state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding according to their associated theoretical approaches, concepts and methodologies; introducing the new concept of ‘peace formation' which counterbalances the previous concepts' reliance on internal violent or externalised institutions and agency, reform and conditionality.

January 2012

05 January 2012 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. .

Call for Papers, Book Reviews and Briefings - Africa Peace and Conflict Journal. Theme: Governance and Security in Africa

January, 2012 The Africa Peace and Conflict Journal seeks to provide a vehicle for African scholars, and those focusing on Africa, to publish their views on issues of peace and conflict affecting the continent.

The APCJ deals with peace and conflict issues from a multi-disciplinary and distinctly African perspective. Researchers from any discipline peace and conflict studies, international relations, history, sociology, political science, media studies, law, etc. are invited to submit papers, book reviews and briefings for publication. The APCJ will endeavor to publish articles reflecting a diversity of topics and a diversity of approaches.

The theme for June, 2012 APCJ issue is Governance and Security in Africa.

This broad theme seeks to cover areas including but not limited to: Elections Corruption Good Governance Regional Integration Human Rights Public Policy and other related governance issues.

Papers should be 7,000 words maximum and be critical case studies and/or thematic discussions and analyses of topical governance and security themes. Book reviews should be 1,500 words maximum and briefings should be 2,000 words maximum, there will be a preference for reviews of decisive works that have transformed global thinking on African peace and conflict in the past thirty years. It is hoped that these reviews and briefings will serve to address the growing demand for research on the continent. Papers with a strong POLICY FOCUS will be given HIGH PRIORITY for this issue. The aim of the APCJ is to make Africa's voice on the pivotal issue of peace and conflict on the continent heard, and to help ensure that the scholarly community in Africa engages with one another on issues relating to continental peace and security. Papers, reviews and briefings can be submitted on a continuous basis, and will be peer reviewed. The focus will be on quality, originality and relevance, and engagement with the scholarly literature on the topic addressed. All sources should be recognized and references provided in footnotes.

Articles must conform to the Guide for Contributors and may be submitted to editor@upeace.org and assted@upeace.org

To subscribe, please contact: The Managing Editor, Africa Peace and Conflict Journal UPEACE Africa Programme P.O. Box 2794 Code 1250 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Telephone: (251) 11 618 0991 Fax: (251) 11 618 0993 Email: editor@apcj.upeace.org and assted@apcj.upeace.org

03 January 2012 - San José, Costa Rica.

A new UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development and the Earth Charter is being established, as a collaborative effort between the Earth Charter Center on ESD, the University for Peace (UPEACE) and UNESCO for a period of three years.

The purpose of the Chair is to promote transformative education experiences that cultivate the fundamental values and ethical vision necessary to move towards a more sustainable world.

The uniqueness of this project is that it will work in the intersection between education, sustainability and ethics using the Earth Charter as a framework. It will develop workshops and courses for educators, young leaders, and business groups under this theme. The courses will also offer an opportunity to further explore practical implementation of the sustainability paradigm and the Earth Charter principles in management, leadership and education settings.

The specific objectives of this Chair include:

1) Contribute to the sustainability research field by developing, in coordination with a network of organizations, essays, books, and other publications related to education for sustainability.

2) Collaborate with universities and other education and research centers in the implementation of the UNDESD, working in the field of education for sustainability to enhance the process of incorporating values of sustainability into educational settings.

3) Design and organize transformative learning courses, workshops and materials on ethics and sustainability for various groups.

4) Offer hands-on training on tools for ethics-based evaluation processes based on the Earth Charter.

It is envisioned that this effort will facilitate collaboration among researchers, universities and education centers from all regions of the world interested in this field of research and training: education, sustainability and ethics using the Earth Charter as the basis.

The Agreement to establish this UNESCO Chair was signed in January 2012 by UNESCO Secretary General, UPEACE Rector and the Earth Charter Center for ESD Director. The initial partner institutions joining this UNESCO Chair are: University of Brighton (UK), National University (UNA, Costa Rica), University of International Cooperation (UCI, Costa Rica), La Salle University (Costa Rica) and Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela), but it is expected that many others will be involved.

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