University for Peace

Peace Education

The Master of Arts Degree in Peace Education (PE) seeks to develop and strengthen the capacity of formal and informal educators to build a peaceful world on all levels and in all dimensions of life. Through coursework and independent research or internship experiences, complemented with a unique and cooperative learning environment at UPEACE, students will enhance their values formation, knowledge and skills for living in and building cultures of peace. An understanding of the roles education, educators and institutions can play in resolving and transforming conflicts and violence towards holistic cultures of peace is explored.

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Study Plan

Academic Course Calendar and Professors

Code	Courses	Type	Professor	Credits	Weeks	Dates	Hours	Classroom
UPM 6001	UPEACE Foundation Course UPM 6001-UPEACE Foundation Course 3Credits The UPEACE Foundation Course provides a critical and concise introduction to the broad field of “Peace Studies” for students in all UPEACE programmes. It initially addresses key conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the origins and development of peace studies as an interdisciplinary area within the fields of international relations and political economy, as well as a basic understanding of conflict analysis. Based on a critical analysis of policies, strategies, policies, institutions, organizations, and movements, the course then examines a range of core issues, dimensions, perspectives, and paradigms for understanding the root causes of conflicts and violence and constructive strategies to address them and build peace in contemporary global, international, regional, national and local contexts, including conflict management, conflict resolution, and conflict transformation; alternative discourse analysis; militarization and disarmament; human rights violations and promotion; gender inequalities, gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming; structural violence, human security, development and globalization; environmental sustainability; corporate social responsibility; cultural and religious identities; media’s role in conflict and peacebuilding; strategies of nonviolence; and peace education. This Foundations course will be essential in catalyzing the awareness, understanding, and motivation of UPEACE students from diverse academic programmes to relate, ground, or intersect their specific areas of academic and practitioner interest with core theoretical, conceptual, and analytical ideas in peace studies. View More	Mandatory	UPEACE Resident Faculty() UPEACE Resident Faculty View More Amr Abdalla(Egypt/United States) Amr Abdalla Egypt/United States Professor Emeritus, University for Peace Dr. Abdalla is a Professor Emeritus at the University for Peace (UPEACE), and the Scholar in Residence at the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College, Pennsylvania. He is also the Senior Advisor on Conflict Resolution at the Washington-based organization KARAMAH (Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights). From 2014 to 2017, he was the Senior Advisor on Policy Analysis and Research at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University. In 2013-2014, he was Vice President of SALAM Institute for Peace and Justice in Washington, DC. From 2004-2013 he was Professor, Dean and Vice Rector at UPEACE. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow with the Peace Operations Policy Program, School of Public Policy, at George Mason University, Virginia. He was also a Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg, Virginia. Both his academic and professional careers are multi-disciplinary. He obtained a law degree in Egypt in 1977, where he practiced law as a prosecuting attorney from 1978 to 1986. From 1981-1986, he was a member of the public prosecutor team investigating the case of the assassination of President Sadat and numerous other terrorism cases. He then emigrated to the US, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. He has been teaching graduate classes in conflict analysis and resolution and has conducted training, research, and evaluation of conflict resolution and peacebuilding programs in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. He has been an active figure in promoting inter-faith dialogue and effective cross-cultural messages through workshops and community presentations in the United States and beyond. He pioneered the development of the first conflict resolution teaching and training manual for Muslim communities titled (“…Say Peace”). He also founded Project LIGHT (Learning Islamic Guidance for Human Tolerance), a community peer-based anti-discrimination project funded by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). In 2011, he established with Egyptian UPEACE graduates a program for community prevention of sectarian violence in Egypt (Ahl el Hetta). In 2018 he led the publication of the first Arabic Glossary of Terms in Peace and Conflict Studies in cooperation with UNDP-Iraq and the Iraqi Amal Association. View More	3	3 weeks (Including one double session. Friday 15 September 2023 is a Holiday)	28-Aug-2023 14-Sep-2023	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Council Room
PCS 6013	Gender and Peacebuilding PCS 6013-Gender and Peacebuilding 3Credits The role that gender plays in conflict situations is increasingly being recognized as an aspect that needs to be explored in order to better understand and work towards effective changes in conflict and post-conflict situations. This introductory course focuses on gender inclusivity in the process of peacebuilding, and seeks to enable students to analyze how gendered perspectives influence conflict, how gender relations are impacted by acts of violence and extremism, and the ways in which a gendered lens can be instrumentalized to achieve peace. View More	Mandatory	Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More	3	3 weeks	20-Sep-2023 10-Oct-2023	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #3
UPM 6003	The United Nations System and... UPM 6003-The United Nations System and UPMUNC (Part I) 2Credits The course is intended to familiarize students with the creation, objectives, evolution, main entities, and principal areas of work of the United Nations system. The course will look in some detail at the United Nations Charter and the functions of the UN’s principal organs before delving into the UN’s work in spurring cooperation to address a number of key contemporary global challenges, such as those in the areas of sustainable development, international migration and large-scale refugee flows, and climate change and environmental degradation. View More	Mandatory	Mihir Kanade(India) Mihir Kanade India Dr. Mihir Kanade (India) is the Academic Coordinator of UPEACE, the Head of its Department of International Law, and the Director of the UPEACE Human Rights Centre. He is also the academic co-coordinator of the LLM programme in Transnational Crime and Justice offered jointly by UPEACE and UNICRI in Turin, Italy. He holds an LL.B. from Nagpur University (India) and a Master degree and Doctorate from UPEACE. He is an adjunct/visiting faculty at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain), Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and Long Island University (United States). His principal area of academic research and study is International Law, Human Rights and Globalization, covering several themes within that interface including armed conflicts, trade and investment, sustainable development, forced migration, indigenous peoples’ rights, public health, amongst others. He currently serves as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in representation of the Asia-Pacific region. He also chairs the group of international experts mandated to elaborate the draft convention on the right to development. He has previously served on the International Advisory Board of the International Bar Association on the topic of Business and Human Rights. He leads an e-learning project of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on promoting the Right to Development. Prior to his pursuit in academia, Mihir practiced as a lawyer at the Bombay High Court and at the Supreme Court of India. View More Guest Speakers() Guest Speakers View More	2	2 weeks	16-Oct-2023 27-Oct-2023	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Council Room
PCS-6006-1	Critical Seminars - First Critical... PCS-6006-1-Critical Seminars - First Critical Seminar 0Credits Critical seminars are an opportunity for each academic programme to meet on a regular basis in order to: Make the connections between the teaching and learning of their various courses Critically reflect on course content and its relationship to their own lived experiences Critically analyze existing research Use metacognition to improve learning. Unless otherwise specified, the seminars will take place on the afternoons of the following dates: *I Semester:* Critical Seminar 1: Thursday 19 October 2023 Critical Seminar 2: Thursday 23 November 2023 *II Semester:* Critical Seminar 3: Thursday 8 February 2024 Critical Seminar 4: Thursday 25 April 2024 View More	Mandatory	Adriana Salcedo(Ecuador/United States) Adriana Salcedo Ecuador/United States Biography Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Academic Coordinator of M.A. in International Peace Studies and M.A. in International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies programmes Dr. Adriana Salcedo currently serves as Head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Academic Coordinator of the Masters in International Peace Studies (IPS) and International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (IPS-MPCS) programmes. She is a scholar-practitioner in the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding with a focus on conflict, gender, identity and migration. She holds a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from The Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, in Virginia, United States. For this degree, she conducted extensive research on forced migration, conflict and the social integration of refugees in the Colombian-Ecuadorian borderlands and in inner cities in Ecuador. She is deeply committed to achieving positive social change through non-violent means and to strengthening social actors including grass-roots organizations, indigenous communities and minority groups through her research and practice. Adriana has taught courses at The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University in Washington D.C., at Boston University and at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito, Ecuador in conflict analysis, collaborative methodologies for building peace, mediation, identity conflicts, gender and migration. As a practitioner, Adriana has provided training for the Northern Virginia Mediation Center (as a Certified Instructor/Mediator) and for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rediálogo and Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela) as well as for the Canadian Embassy in the Dominican Republic and the Observatory of Migration in the Caribbean (OBMICA). With more than fifteen years of experience in analyzing and transforming social conflicts, her professional practice has covered the Amazon basin, the Galapagos Islands and the Andean region (Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia), the United States, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Costa Rica. She has conducted research and collaborated with various public, grassroots and civil society organizations across the Americas and the Caribbean. Biografía Directora y Profesora Asistente, Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto, Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto La Dra. Adriana Salcedo actualmente se desempeña como Directora y Profesora Asistente del Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz en Costa Rica. Además, es Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto, que ofrece este Departamento. La Dra. Adriana Salcedo es una profesional que combina la teoría y práctica en el campo de la transformación de conflictos y la construcción de la paz con un enfoque en conflictos, género, identidades y migración. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de la Escuela de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter de la Universidad George Mason, en Virginia, Estados Unidos. Para esto, realizó una extensa investigación sobre la migración forzada, los conflictos y la integración social de refugiados/as en las tierras fronterizas colombo-ecuatorianas y en las ciudades del interior de Ecuador. Está profundamente comprometida a lograr un cambio social positivo a través de medios no violentos y a fortalecer a los actores sociales a través de su investigación y práctica (principalmente organizaciones de base, las comunidades indígenas y los grupos minoritarios). Adriana ha impartido cursos en la Escuela Carter para la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos en la Universidad George Mason en Washington D.C, en la Universidad de Boston y en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar en Quito, Ecuador sobre análisis de conflictos, metodologías colaborativas para construcción de la paz, mediación, género y migración. Fue profesora visitante en el Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz (UPAZ) en Costa Rica durante tres años consecutivos (2017-2019) antes de unirse a la UPAZ como profesora residente. En su práctica profesional, Adriana ha brindado capacitación para el Centro de Mediación del Norte de Virginia (como Instructora / Mediadora Certificada) y para el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Rediálogo y Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela), así como para la Embajada de Canadá en la República Dominicana y el Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo Social del Caribe (OBMICA). Con más de quince años de experiencia en el análisis y transformación de conflictos sociales, su práctica profesional ha cubierto la cuenca del Amazonas, las Islas Galápagos y la región andina (Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia), los Estados Unidos, la República Dominicana y Haití. Ha realizado varias investigaciones y colaborado con varias instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil en la región de las Américas y del Caribe. View More Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	0	1 day	19-Oct-2023 19-Oct-2023	12:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.	Earth Charter Auditorium
PEP 6010	Peace Education: Theory and Practice PEP 6010-Peace Education: Theory and Practice 3Credits The course explores a range of conceptual/analytical perspectives for a holistic and critical understanding of the theory and practice of peace education and encourages participants to reflect on the possibilities of educating for peace in a world of complex and escalating conflicts and violence. Participants will explore the content, values, and pedagogy of peace education as it is theorized and practiced internationally. Using a Freirean pedagogical perspective, participants will apply the framework of education about, for, and by peace to develop a clearer understanding of how peace education might be effectively implemented in their context. The discussion will include both the formal, informal, and non-formal education sectors, with a focus on the ability of education systems to promote either culture of peace or cultures of violence. Participants will review research from the field to develop an understanding of the difficulties of evaluating peace education programs, and how those challenges can be faced. Course activities will focus on building an effective learning community where participants learn from each other and challenge their own perspectives through in-depth dialogue and inquiry. View More	Mandatory	Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	3	3 weeks	30-Oct-2023 17-Nov-2023	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Other
PCS 6011	Tools for Conflict Resolution and... PCS 6011-Tools for Conflict Resolution and Transformation 3Credits As far as historical and archaeological records indicate, armed violence has been a feature of human social life, and so have been efforts at resolving violent conflict. Since the end of the Second World War, the overwhelming majority of wars have been fought within the internationally recognised boundaries of sovereign states – so-called internal armed conflicts, low-intensity conflicts, or, simply, civil wars. The causes of these conflicts, as well as the political goals pursued by the parties, have been diverse, and the conflicts themselves are often highly complex and protracted. The need to bring these conflicts to an end has inspired a large body of research and practical work. Tools for Conflict Resolution and Transformation is a practice-oriented course with a pronounced theoretical foundation. After a brief overview of the history of the field, the primary focus of the course will be on conflict transformation, particularly in the context of internal armed conflicts and post-conflict situations. View More	Mandatory	Balázs Kovács(Hungary) Balázs Kovács Hungary Balázs Áron Kovács is an independent peace-building consultant. Earlier he was the Country Director in the Philippines of forumZFD – Forum Civil Peace Service, a German NGO working in the field of conflict transformation. He completed his PhD at the University of New England, Australia in Peace Studies/Politics and International Studies. Prior to this he worked as an instructor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the UN-mandated University for Peace, as a programme officer at Freedom House Europe, a Washington DC-based NGO, and a civil servant at the Hungarian Ministry of Justice. He also holds a Juris Doctorate from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, and a Master’s Degree in International Peace Studies from the University for Peace. View More	3	3 weeks (Including one double session. Friday 1 December 2023 is a Holiday)	20-Nov-2023 08-Dec-2023	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Council Room
PCS-6006-2	Critical Seminars - Second Critical... PCS-6006-2-Critical Seminars - Second Critical Seminar 0Credits Critical seminars are an opportunity for each academic programme to meet on a regular basis in order to: Make the connections between the teaching and learning of their various courses Critically reflect on course content and its relationship to their own lived experiences Critically analyze existing research Use metacognition to improve learning. Unless otherwise specified, the seminars will take place on the afternoons of the following dates: *I Semester:* Critical Seminar 1: Thursday 19 October 2023 Critical Seminar 2: Thursday 23 November 2023 *II Semester:* Critical Seminar 3: Thursday 8 February 2024 Critical Seminar 4: Thursday 25 April 2024 View More	Mandatory	Adriana Salcedo(Ecuador/United States) Adriana Salcedo Ecuador/United States Biography Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Academic Coordinator of M.A. in International Peace Studies and M.A. in International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies programmes Dr. Adriana Salcedo currently serves as Head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Academic Coordinator of the Masters in International Peace Studies (IPS) and International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (IPS-MPCS) programmes. She is a scholar-practitioner in the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding with a focus on conflict, gender, identity and migration. She holds a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from The Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, in Virginia, United States. For this degree, she conducted extensive research on forced migration, conflict and the social integration of refugees in the Colombian-Ecuadorian borderlands and in inner cities in Ecuador. She is deeply committed to achieving positive social change through non-violent means and to strengthening social actors including grass-roots organizations, indigenous communities and minority groups through her research and practice. Adriana has taught courses at The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University in Washington D.C., at Boston University and at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito, Ecuador in conflict analysis, collaborative methodologies for building peace, mediation, identity conflicts, gender and migration. As a practitioner, Adriana has provided training for the Northern Virginia Mediation Center (as a Certified Instructor/Mediator) and for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rediálogo and Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela) as well as for the Canadian Embassy in the Dominican Republic and the Observatory of Migration in the Caribbean (OBMICA). With more than fifteen years of experience in analyzing and transforming social conflicts, her professional practice has covered the Amazon basin, the Galapagos Islands and the Andean region (Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia), the United States, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Costa Rica. She has conducted research and collaborated with various public, grassroots and civil society organizations across the Americas and the Caribbean. Biografía Directora y Profesora Asistente, Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto, Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto La Dra. Adriana Salcedo actualmente se desempeña como Directora y Profesora Asistente del Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz en Costa Rica. Además, es Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto, que ofrece este Departamento. La Dra. Adriana Salcedo es una profesional que combina la teoría y práctica en el campo de la transformación de conflictos y la construcción de la paz con un enfoque en conflictos, género, identidades y migración. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de la Escuela de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter de la Universidad George Mason, en Virginia, Estados Unidos. Para esto, realizó una extensa investigación sobre la migración forzada, los conflictos y la integración social de refugiados/as en las tierras fronterizas colombo-ecuatorianas y en las ciudades del interior de Ecuador. Está profundamente comprometida a lograr un cambio social positivo a través de medios no violentos y a fortalecer a los actores sociales a través de su investigación y práctica (principalmente organizaciones de base, las comunidades indígenas y los grupos minoritarios). Adriana ha impartido cursos en la Escuela Carter para la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos en la Universidad George Mason en Washington D.C, en la Universidad de Boston y en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar en Quito, Ecuador sobre análisis de conflictos, metodologías colaborativas para construcción de la paz, mediación, género y migración. Fue profesora visitante en el Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz (UPAZ) en Costa Rica durante tres años consecutivos (2017-2019) antes de unirse a la UPAZ como profesora residente. En su práctica profesional, Adriana ha brindado capacitación para el Centro de Mediación del Norte de Virginia (como Instructora / Mediadora Certificada) y para el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Rediálogo y Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela), así como para la Embajada de Canadá en la República Dominicana y el Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo Social del Caribe (OBMICA). Con más de quince años de experiencia en el análisis y transformación de conflictos sociales, su práctica profesional ha cubierto la cuenca del Amazonas, las Islas Galápagos y la región andina (Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia), los Estados Unidos, la República Dominicana y Haití. Ha realizado varias investigaciones y colaborado con varias instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil en la región de las Américas y del Caribe. View More Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	0	1 day	23-Nov-2023 23-Nov-2023	12:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.	Earth Charter Auditorium
PCS 6008	Research Methodology PCS 6008-Research Methodology 3Credits This course introduces students to research methods and aims to equip them with the knowledge and skills required to undertake, design, and execute a research project in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. Starting with an examination of the meaning and purpose of research itself, the course focuses on how existing literature can be explored to identify research topics and what the research design entails. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed designs will be considered, along with the data collection tools and data analysis techniques that could be used. View More	Mandatory	Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More	3	3 weeks	08-Jan-2024 26-Jan-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Earth Charter Auditorium
PEP 6046	Restorative Justice PEP 6046-Restorative Justice 3Credits Restorative justice is more than a series of practices; it incorporates values and principles than run counter to the retributive practices that have been common in justice and educational systems. Restorative justice explores the needs of key actors in a conflict or situation of harm, and seeks to hold actors responsible to each other and to the community. The focus is on creating or re-establishing positive relationships amongst all community members, be they victim, offender or community stakeholder. Students in this course will explore the various cultural traditions of restorative justice, and its current practices in the judicial and educational systems. Students will be able to apply the values and principles of restorative justice to their respective contexts. View More	Mandatory	Erin Dunlevy(United States) Erin Dunlevy United States Erin Dunlevy is a Restorative Justice and Equity Consultant based in New York City. Erin is a Restorative Justice practitioner and educator with nearly two decades of professional experience in schools and universities throughout the US, and she currently works on projects around the country training stakeholders from schools, districts, community organizations and for-profit companies who influence education. Her areas of focus include developing restorative justice models for peacemaking across lines of difference, truth and reconciliation and critical consciousness. Her work has also focused on developing and implementing restorative justice models for addressing equity issues within secondary and higher education classrooms, specifically as an advocate for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Native Language Arts Education and in-class restorative circles. Erin has written and presented extensively about evaluative measures for restorative practices in institutions cited for disproportionality and high incidences of violence. In addition to field work, Erin is a trained intimacy professional, an instructor at the New York University Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools, and at the Institute for Democratic Education in America, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and is Vice President at True North EDI. View More	3	3 weeks	29-Jan-2024 16-Feb-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #2
PCS-6006-3	Critical Seminars - Third Critical... PCS-6006-3-Critical Seminars - Third Critical Seminar 0Credits Critical seminars are an opportunity for each academic programme to meet on a regular basis in order to: Make the connections between the teaching and learning of their various courses Critically reflect on course content and its relationship to their own lived experiences Critically analyze existing research Use metacognition to improve learning. Unless otherwise specified, the seminars will take place on the afternoons of the following dates: *I Semester:* Critical Seminar 1: Thursday 19 October 2023 Critical Seminar 2: Thursday 23 November 2023 *II Semester:* Critical Seminar 3: Thursday 8 February 2024 Critical Seminar 4: Thursday 25 April 2024 View More	Mandatory	Adriana Salcedo(Ecuador/United States) Adriana Salcedo Ecuador/United States Biography Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Academic Coordinator of M.A. in International Peace Studies and M.A. in International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies programmes Dr. Adriana Salcedo currently serves as Head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Academic Coordinator of the Masters in International Peace Studies (IPS) and International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (IPS-MPCS) programmes. She is a scholar-practitioner in the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding with a focus on conflict, gender, identity and migration. She holds a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from The Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, in Virginia, United States. For this degree, she conducted extensive research on forced migration, conflict and the social integration of refugees in the Colombian-Ecuadorian borderlands and in inner cities in Ecuador. She is deeply committed to achieving positive social change through non-violent means and to strengthening social actors including grass-roots organizations, indigenous communities and minority groups through her research and practice. Adriana has taught courses at The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University in Washington D.C., at Boston University and at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito, Ecuador in conflict analysis, collaborative methodologies for building peace, mediation, identity conflicts, gender and migration. As a practitioner, Adriana has provided training for the Northern Virginia Mediation Center (as a Certified Instructor/Mediator) and for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rediálogo and Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela) as well as for the Canadian Embassy in the Dominican Republic and the Observatory of Migration in the Caribbean (OBMICA). With more than fifteen years of experience in analyzing and transforming social conflicts, her professional practice has covered the Amazon basin, the Galapagos Islands and the Andean region (Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia), the United States, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Costa Rica. She has conducted research and collaborated with various public, grassroots and civil society organizations across the Americas and the Caribbean. Biografía Directora y Profesora Asistente, Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto, Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto La Dra. Adriana Salcedo actualmente se desempeña como Directora y Profesora Asistente del Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz en Costa Rica. Además, es Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto, que ofrece este Departamento. La Dra. Adriana Salcedo es una profesional que combina la teoría y práctica en el campo de la transformación de conflictos y la construcción de la paz con un enfoque en conflictos, género, identidades y migración. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de la Escuela de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter de la Universidad George Mason, en Virginia, Estados Unidos. Para esto, realizó una extensa investigación sobre la migración forzada, los conflictos y la integración social de refugiados/as en las tierras fronterizas colombo-ecuatorianas y en las ciudades del interior de Ecuador. Está profundamente comprometida a lograr un cambio social positivo a través de medios no violentos y a fortalecer a los actores sociales a través de su investigación y práctica (principalmente organizaciones de base, las comunidades indígenas y los grupos minoritarios). Adriana ha impartido cursos en la Escuela Carter para la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos en la Universidad George Mason en Washington D.C, en la Universidad de Boston y en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar en Quito, Ecuador sobre análisis de conflictos, metodologías colaborativas para construcción de la paz, mediación, género y migración. Fue profesora visitante en el Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz (UPAZ) en Costa Rica durante tres años consecutivos (2017-2019) antes de unirse a la UPAZ como profesora residente. En su práctica profesional, Adriana ha brindado capacitación para el Centro de Mediación del Norte de Virginia (como Instructora / Mediadora Certificada) y para el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Rediálogo y Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela), así como para la Embajada de Canadá en la República Dominicana y el Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo Social del Caribe (OBMICA). Con más de quince años de experiencia en el análisis y transformación de conflictos sociales, su práctica profesional ha cubierto la cuenca del Amazonas, las Islas Galápagos y la región andina (Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia), los Estados Unidos, la República Dominicana y Haití. Ha realizado varias investigaciones y colaborado con varias instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil en la región de las Américas y del Caribe. View More Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	0	1 day	08-Feb-2024 08-Feb-2024	12:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.	Earth Charter Auditorium
PCS-6016	Narrative Approaches to Conflict and... PCS-6016-Narrative Approaches to Conflict and Peace 2Credits This is an introductory course that provides an overview of how narratives influence on our common understanding of conflict and peace dynamics. Embedded on a common understanding of conflictual contexts, as well as peace processes, this course centers its debate on narrative approaches to enhance a critical analysis of how social reality is constructed and influenced by different sources – media, politicians, international organizations, and academia –, and is reinforced by the perpetuation of terms and concepts that triggers conflict escalation, practices of violence and peacebuilding. View More	Mandatory	Maurício Vieira(Brazil) Maurício Vieira Brazil *Assistant Professor and Head of the Chair on “Countering and Preventing Illicit Trade and Transnational Organized Crime”* Maurício Vieira is Assistant Professor and Head of the Chair on “Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime” at the University for Peace (headquarters in Costa Rica), established by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Prior to this position, he assumed a position as Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo, Norway; at the Graduate Institute in Geneva (Switzerland); and at the University for Peace (Costa Rica). He obtained his Ph.D. in International Politics and Conflict Resolution from the University of Coimbra, Portugal (summa cum laude); MA in International Relations with a focus on Peace and Security Studies; a Specialization Diploma in International Law and BA in Journalism, these last two degrees from the University of Fortaleza, Brazil. His areas of research focus on the analysis of decision-making within international organizations, institutional approaches on labeling and framing, and ‘post-conflict’ peacebuilding under the scope of the UN, and Peace Research within Transnational Organized Crime. He is currently an external associate researcher at the Nationalities Observatory and the Laboratory on the Study of Conflict and Violence, both associated at the Ceará State University, in Brazil. View More	2	2 weeks	19-Feb-2024 01-Mar-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #2
PEP 6044	Education for Sustainability PEP 6044-Education for Sustainability 3Credits This course introduces and explores the critically important notion of sustainability and the implications that the sustainable development agenda has for education, learning, and social change. Sustainability embraces ecological mindfulness, competence, equity, social justice (intragenerational and inter-generational), peaceful relationships, and action for transformation. The aim of the course is to develop a sound understanding and appreciation of the scope and complexity of sustainability issues and their significance; an understanding of the role of education, and of the kinds of learning and education needed to help realize a safer and more liveable future at local, national and international scales; and to encourage a personal engaged response to these issues. View More	Mandatory	Mirian Vilela(Brazil) Mirian Vilela Brazil *Executive Director, Earth Charter International Secretariat and the Earth Charter Center on Education for Sustainable Development* Mirian is the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Education for Sustainable Development with the Earth Charter. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was an Edward Mason Fellow and holds a B.Sc. with focus on International Trade. She is currently finalizing on a Doctorate on Education focusing her research on education for sustainability. She has worked with the Earth Charter International Initiative since the beginning of 1996, therefore for more than 20 years; she has facilitated consultation processes and workshops, and coordinated local, regional and international projects in the field of sustainability values, education and policies. She has been a Professor in the Master's Programmes of the University for Peace since 2004 teaching in the areas of Sustainable Development, Environmental Governance, and Education for Sustainable Development. Mirian participated actively in major United Nations Conferences on Sustainable Development such as: Earth Summit (1992), Rio+5 (1997), Rio+10 in Johannesburg (2002), and Rio+20 (2012), articulating consultations and dialogues with various groups and sectors, as well as collaborating and influencing these processes. View More	3	3 weeks	04-Mar-2024 22-Mar-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #4
PEP 6025	Education in Emergencies: Armed Conflicts,... PEP 6025-Education in Emergencies: Armed Conflicts, Disasters and Health Crises 3Credits This course addresses the range of purposes that education can fulfil before, during and after wars and other emergency situations as part of a humanitarian response and the transformative process of building a culture of peace. The course focuses on (1) on the different educational challenges in various emergency contexts, (2) on participatory teaching-learning frameworks and methodologies applicable in such contexts, and (3) on carefully designing education projects in relation to its impact on target groups and societal change. Central to the course are examples from various conflicts, natural disasters and health crises. The examples show possibilities for formal and non-formal educational strategies and pedagogical methods for helping different kinds of vulnerable groups, the preventive role of education in improving survival and health prospects during or prior to emergencies. The examples are also used to show the conceptual insights, practices and guidelines on which international and local humanitarian agencies and civil society organizations base their work. The course is will be conducted using various facilitative and participatory teaching methods. Part of the course is designing an education project in an emergency setting. The course will be relevant to peace educators and peacebuilders, who want to contribute to educational initiatives and programs designed to meet the needs and enhance the well-being of peoples affected by situations of armed conflicts and other emergencies, whether natural or human–made. View More	Mandatory	Kees Wiebering(Netherlands) Kees Wiebering Netherlands Kees Wiebering is an independent consultant, mediator, trainer, and coach for professionals in peacebuilding. His work focuses on dialogue, civil society development, conflict resolution, and peace education. He has been a professional practitioner in peacebuilding projects since the mid-1990s. Over the years, he designed, facilitated, implemented, and evaluated several peacebuilding projects. He holds a Master of Science in Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society and additional degrees in organisation development and mediation. He combines his consulting work with lecturing and research. His research interests relate to the possibilities, roles, and formats of dialogue in peace processes. View More	3	3 weeks (Including one double session. Monday 15 April 2024 is a Holiday)	01-Apr-2024 19-Apr-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #6
PCS 6015	PeaceLab PCS 6015-PeaceLab 3Credits The PeaceLab is a skills-oriented seminar to build up insight into and experience with basic skills necessary for dialogue and mediation in conflict and polarized societies. Central to this seminar are communication and facilitation skills; conflict resolution, mediation, and dialogue; dealing with emotions; problem-solving and transformative approaches; acting in polarized and multi-stakeholder settings. This challenging seminar consists of short and to-the-point inputs after which the topics will be trained using exercises, role play, and reflection. The seminar is open only for all PCS students. View More	Mandatory	Kees Wiebering(Netherlands) Kees Wiebering Netherlands Kees Wiebering is an independent consultant, mediator, trainer, and coach for professionals in peacebuilding. His work focuses on dialogue, civil society development, conflict resolution, and peace education. He has been a professional practitioner in peacebuilding projects since the mid-1990s. Over the years, he designed, facilitated, implemented, and evaluated several peacebuilding projects. He holds a Master of Science in Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Society and additional degrees in organisation development and mediation. He combines his consulting work with lecturing and research. His research interests relate to the possibilities, roles, and formats of dialogue in peace processes. View More	3	3 weeks (Including one double session. Wednesday 1 May 2024 is a Holiday)	22-Apr-2024 10-May-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Earth Charter Auditorium
PCS-6006-4	Critical Seminars - Fourth Critical... PCS-6006-4-Critical Seminars - Fourth Critical Seminar 1Credits Critical seminars are an opportunity for each academic programme to meet on a regular basis in order to: Make the connections between the teaching and learning of their various courses Critically reflect on course content and its relationship to their own lived experiences Critically analyze existing research Use metacognition to improve learning. Unless otherwise specified, the seminars will take place on the afternoons of the following dates: *I Semester:* Critical Seminar 1: Thursday 19 October 2023 Critical Seminar 2: Thursday 23 November 2023 *II Semester:* Critical Seminar 3: Thursday 8 February 2024 Critical Seminar 4: Thursday 25 April 2024 View More	Mandatory	Adriana Salcedo(Ecuador/United States) Adriana Salcedo Ecuador/United States Biography Head and Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Academic Coordinator of M.A. in International Peace Studies and M.A. in International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies programmes Dr. Adriana Salcedo currently serves as Head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Department at the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Academic Coordinator of the Masters in International Peace Studies (IPS) and International Peace Studies with specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict Studies (IPS-MPCS) programmes. She is a scholar-practitioner in the field of conflict transformation and peacebuilding with a focus on conflict, gender, identity and migration. She holds a Doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from The Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, in Virginia, United States. For this degree, she conducted extensive research on forced migration, conflict and the social integration of refugees in the Colombian-Ecuadorian borderlands and in inner cities in Ecuador. She is deeply committed to achieving positive social change through non-violent means and to strengthening social actors including grass-roots organizations, indigenous communities and minority groups through her research and practice. Adriana has taught courses at The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University in Washington D.C., at Boston University and at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Quito, Ecuador in conflict analysis, collaborative methodologies for building peace, mediation, identity conflicts, gender and migration. As a practitioner, Adriana has provided training for the Northern Virginia Mediation Center (as a Certified Instructor/Mediator) and for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Rediálogo and Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela) as well as for the Canadian Embassy in the Dominican Republic and the Observatory of Migration in the Caribbean (OBMICA). With more than fifteen years of experience in analyzing and transforming social conflicts, her professional practice has covered the Amazon basin, the Galapagos Islands and the Andean region (Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia), the United States, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Costa Rica. She has conducted research and collaborated with various public, grassroots and civil society organizations across the Americas and the Caribbean. Biografía Directora y Profesora Asistente, Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto, Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto La Dra. Adriana Salcedo actualmente se desempeña como Directora y Profesora Asistente del Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz en Costa Rica. Además, es Coordinadora Académica de los programas de Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz y la Maestría en Estudios Internacionales de Paz con especialización en Estudios de Medios, Paz y Conflicto, que ofrece este Departamento. La Dra. Adriana Salcedo es una profesional que combina la teoría y práctica en el campo de la transformación de conflictos y la construcción de la paz con un enfoque en conflictos, género, identidades y migración. Obtuvo su Doctorado en Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de la Escuela de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos de Jimmy and Rosslyn Carter de la Universidad George Mason, en Virginia, Estados Unidos. Para esto, realizó una extensa investigación sobre la migración forzada, los conflictos y la integración social de refugiados/as en las tierras fronterizas colombo-ecuatorianas y en las ciudades del interior de Ecuador. Está profundamente comprometida a lograr un cambio social positivo a través de medios no violentos y a fortalecer a los actores sociales a través de su investigación y práctica (principalmente organizaciones de base, las comunidades indígenas y los grupos minoritarios). Adriana ha impartido cursos en la Escuela Carter para la Paz y la Resolución de Conflictos en la Universidad George Mason en Washington D.C, en la Universidad de Boston y en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar en Quito, Ecuador sobre análisis de conflictos, metodologías colaborativas para construcción de la paz, mediación, género y migración. Fue profesora visitante en el Departamento de Estudios de Paz y Conflicto de la Universidad para la Paz (UPAZ) en Costa Rica durante tres años consecutivos (2017-2019) antes de unirse a la UPAZ como profesora residente. En su práctica profesional, Adriana ha brindado capacitación para el Centro de Mediación del Norte de Virginia (como Instructora / Mediadora Certificada) y para el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF), Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), Rediálogo y Oportunidades Acción Ciudadana (Venezuela), así como para la Embajada de Canadá en la República Dominicana y el Centro para la Observación Migratoria y el Desarrollo Social del Caribe (OBMICA). Con más de quince años de experiencia en el análisis y transformación de conflictos sociales, su práctica profesional ha cubierto la cuenca del Amazonas, las Islas Galápagos y la región andina (Ecuador, Colombia y Bolivia), los Estados Unidos, la República Dominicana y Haití. Ha realizado varias investigaciones y colaborado con varias instituciones públicas, privadas y de la sociedad civil en la región de las Américas y del Caribe. View More Uzma Rashid(Pakistan) Uzma Rashid Pakistan Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies and Academic Coordinator of MA in Gender and Peacebuilding, MA in Gender and Development and MA in Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Programmes Dr. Uzma Rashid serves as Associate Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Academic Coordinator for the Gender and Peacebuilding; Gender and Development; and Religion, Culture, and Peace Studies Masters programmes at the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly), Costa Rica. Prior to joining UPEACE, she worked as Chair at the Department of Sociology, and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr. Rashid has done her PhD as a Fulbright scholar from the interdisciplinary Language, Literacy, and Culture program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, and has extensive teaching, training, and research experience in a variety of contexts. Her academic work and research interests have consistently been interdisciplinary in nature, with the aim of working towards equity and justice by furthering an understanding of power relations in the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion, race, ethnicity, caste, ability, and class at the multiple levels on which they operate. She is also a certified trainer for conducting self-defense trainings with a holistic view of tackling violence, especially sexual and gender based violence. Currently, she is also a KAICIID International Fellow for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, implementing a project for capacity building towards ensuring that interfaith dialogue spaces can be made more inclusive and nonviolent for queer communities. She is always open to ideas for collaborations that are aimed at creating such just futures for all. She can be reached at urashid@upeace.org View More Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	1	1 day	25-Apr-2024 25-Apr-2024	12:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m	Earth Charter Auditorium
IPS 6057	Strategic Nonviolent Resistance IPS 6057 -Strategic Nonviolent Resistance 3Credits Despite historical cases of strategic nonviolent resistance (also known as civil resistance, nonviolent conflict, or people power) and notwithstanding a number of nonviolent insurrections, including popular revolts during the Arab spring or recently in Lebanon, Guatemala, Moldova, or Burkina Faso, little is understood about this phenomenon among academics, policy makers, international development professionals and mainstream media alike. In the past, civil resistance was rarely recognized as a distinct phenomenon that could generate a significant political, social, and economic change. This has been due to the fact that the agency of ordinary people would not figure prominently in the scholarship dominated largely by structural, condition-driven, or elite-focused accounts. By engaging in conversation about strategic nonviolent resistance, this course will take the students beyond traditional analysis of structures, elites, and determinative conditions and instead focus on the agency of common people; their skills, and strategies of mobilizing and organizing. This course studies the emergence, sustenance, and dynamics of popular civic movements. It addresses the questions of what civil resistance is and how it works while looking at various strategic developments that propel nonviolent resistance. It analyzes how seemingly powerless, unarmed but organized people can challenge the mighty and powerful and what role nonviolent movements can play in democratizing societies long term. View More	Mandatory	Stephanie Knox Steiner(United States) Stephanie Knox Steiner United States Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of Peace Education Programme, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies Stephanie Marie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her) is Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Peace Education programme at the University for Peace (UPEACE), established by the UN General Assembly. She earned her doctorate in the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Ecopsychologies specialization from Pacifica Graduate Institute and holds a masters in Peace Education from the University for Peace. She has taught college-level courses on peace and conflict studies and developed peace and nonviolence education programmes for organizations such as Teachers Without Borders and the Metta Center for Nonviolence. She co-founded and coordinates the Jill Knox Humor for Peace Fellowship programme, which offers professional development to peace studies scholars through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor with the intention of building peace through humor. She is a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing, and a member of the Earth Holder Community caretaking council. Her teaching and research interests currently lie at the intersection of peace education, decolonial pedagogies, and unschooling/deschooling/self-directed education. View More	3	3 weeks	13-May-2024 31-May-2024	8:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.	Classroom #6
UPM-6003	The United Nations System and... UPM-6003-The United Nations System and UPMUNC (Part II) 1Credits The UPEACE Model United Nations Conference (UPMUNC) is the second part of a composite three credit course that begins with the two-credit introductory course on the United Nations System, taught in the first semester. Through a simulation of UN bodies, committees, procedures, and codes of conduct, this immersive and experiential educational exercise encourages the application of knowledge gained in previous courses, including an understanding of the objectives and functions of the United Nations system, as well as the development of professional skills related to research, public speaking, negotiation, mediation of conflict, and the preparation of official documents. Historically, the conference has been open to outside participants from colleges and universities both regionally and internationally, presenting additional possibilities for networking, dialogue, and educational exchange among all participants. UPMUNC is further enriched by special events, which typically include a panel of invited speakers, a diplomatic reception, an awards ceremony, and a closing celebration. View More	Mandatory	UPEACE Resident Faculty() UPEACE Resident Faculty View More Mihir Kanade(India) Mihir Kanade India Dr. Mihir Kanade (India) is the Academic Coordinator of UPEACE, the Head of its Department of International Law, and the Director of the UPEACE Human Rights Centre. He is also the academic co-coordinator of the LLM programme in Transnational Crime and Justice offered jointly by UPEACE and UNICRI in Turin, Italy. He holds an LL.B. from Nagpur University (India) and a Master degree and Doctorate from UPEACE. He is an adjunct/visiting faculty at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain), Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal), Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and Long Island University (United States). His principal area of academic research and study is International Law, Human Rights and Globalization, covering several themes within that interface including armed conflicts, trade and investment, sustainable development, forced migration, indigenous peoples’ rights, public health, amongst others. He currently serves as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in representation of the Asia-Pacific region. He also chairs the group of international experts mandated to elaborate the draft convention on the right to development. He has previously served on the International Advisory Board of the International Bar Association on the topic of Business and Human Rights. He leads an e-learning project of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on promoting the Right to Development. Prior to his pursuit in academia, Mihir practiced as a lawyer at the Bombay High Court and at the Supreme Court of India. View More	1	3 days	03-Jun-2024 05-Jun-2024	8:45am.-3:45pm.	Council Room
PEP 7100 / PEP 7102	Graduation Project: Thesis (8 credits)... PEP 7100 / PEP 7102-Graduation Project: Thesis (8 credits) or Internship (8 credits) or Capstone (5 credits) 8Credits The Graduation Project is a concluding academic requirement intended to be a comprehensive and capstone outcome of the student educational performance. It is a higher academic exercise that enables the student to demonstrate the ability to identify a problem, determine an academic objective to address it, and utilize an appropriate methodology to attain such objective. The Graduation Project is also intended to demonstrate the student’s ability to write and critically develop a professional and scholarly report. The Graduation Project can be fulfilled through one of the following modalities: Thesis (8 Credits) Internship (8 Credits) Capstone (5 Credits) Your Academic Department will provide Graduation Project Guidelines with detailed information on each modality. View More	Mandatory	UPEACE Resident Faculty() UPEACE Resident Faculty View More	8	8 weeks	10-Jun-2024 31-Dec-2024	-

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Requirements

Admissions Requirements

The following documentation is required to complete your application process for the UPEACE on-campus M.A. programmes. Please have them ready and on hand before beginning your online application process, as they will need to be uploaded into the system.

Required supporting documents to be uploaded:

English Proficiency Test Scores Report: TOEFL (PBT, CBT or IBT), IELTS, Duolingo English Test, Pearson Test of English or Cambridge English Language Assessment
Statement of Purpose
Letters of Recommendation
Official Undergraduate (Bachelor's Degree) Transcripts and Degree Certificate
Curriculum Vitae or Resume
Copy of Passport (front page with photo only)
Three (3) passport-size photos for ID purposes

Detailed information on each requirement can be found here.

The online application requires electronic (PDF) scans of required documents. Should admission be granted, the following documents will be eventually be required in official hard copy:

English Proficiency Test Scores Report: TOEFL (PBT, CBT or IBT), IELTS, Duolingo English Test, Pearson Test of English or Cambridge English Language Assessment (if applicable)
UPEACE TOEFL Code: 7180
Official Undergraduate Transcripts and Degree Certificate (and English translations if applicable)
Three (3) passport-size photos.

Upon submission of the online application form and supporting uploaded documents, the UPEACE Admissions system will send an automatic confirmation email. The date and time of submission will be noted in the system. Applications received after the established deadline will be considered for admission for the following academic year. Each application received by the established deadline will be reviewed for completeness. A second acknowledgment will be sent to the applicant by the Admissions Officer, informing him/her of the status of his/her application, whether it is complete and able to be passed on for academic review.

We are not able to provide any information about the status of applicants over the phone or to third parties. Information will only be provided to the applicant using the email provided in the online application form. Please address any email inquiries to admissions@upeace.org.

Please write down your application ID number before submitting your application, as this number is difficult for the Admissions Team to recover. If you lose your ID number, please email admissions@upeace.org.

Cost & Financial Aid

Costs & Financial Aid

UPEACE is a not-for-profit institution and has limited funds for financial assistance. Therefore we strive for balance, diverse class composition, and merit in distributing financial assistance among admitted students.

UPEACE Costs

Conditions of UPEACE Scholarships & Financial Assistance

The prospective applicant has to be admitted to UPEACE in order to receive any possibility of financial assistance from the University, the latter of which is subject to the following conditions:

The financial assistance awarded is non-negotiable.
The scholarships/waivers do not apply to the US$ 2,500 administrative fee. This fee is mandatory for all students and is non-refundable if the student wishes to withdraw from UPEACE before completing his/her degree. Admitted students must comply with this financial obligation to UPEACE according to the required deadline outlined in their official admissions documents.
Applicants are only eligible for one waiver category per application period. Waiver categories cannot be combined.
If you receive a scholarship from another institution, you are obligated to inform the UPEACE Admissions Office, so that it can revert the waivers granted by UPEACE.
Applicants eligible for a 50% waiver must apply directly through the UPEACE Admissions Office.

Automatic Scholarships/Waivers

30% Tuition Waiver (Automatic)

Available to M.A. and Doctorate students that meet one of the following criteria:

Citizen or nationals of a signatory state to the UPEACE Charter
Students who have received an undergraduate or graduate degree from a partner university
Peace Corps veterans

50% Tuition Waiver (Automatic)

Available to M.A. and Doctorate students that meet one of the following criteria:

Professors from a partner university
Costa Rican citizens and residents (host country)
Current, full-time UN employees and volunteers
Documented refugee or asylee

30% or 50% Tuition Waiver (Merit Based) - Available to Master's applicants who do not belong to the above categories. These waivers are offered in limited number and will be awarded by merit, not financial condition. These waivers are not available to doctorate students.

Tuition	USD $17,000.00
Administrative Fees*	USD $2,500.00
Total	USD $19,500.00

Administrative Fees are not refundable

Payment Dates

First Payment - Due date determined based on admission date	USD $11,000.00
Final Payment - No later than 15 August 2022	USD $8,500.00
Total	USD $19,500.00

Administrative Fees are not refundable

Student Life

Life at #UPEACE

Humans of UPEACE was modeled after the famous Humans of New York photography project, designed to tell the stories of 10,000 New Yorkers on the street. At UPEACE, we believe our community – composed of current students, Alumni, Faculty, Visiting Professors, staff members, and partners – is our greatest asset and their stories worth sharing with the world. We invite you to dive into these stories and get to know the exceptional #UPEACERS that make the University for Peace a unique and diverse learning community, dedicated to training leaders for peace determined to reshape the world.

Their stories are the best way to get a real feeling for the Student Life Experience at UPEACE!

Click on the HoU logo below to get started!

Our current batch of #UPEACERS

The University for Peace is characterized by its diversity and multiculturalism. For 2023-2024, we have 115 students from 33 countries. As a result, our campus is always full of student activities, most of them organized by the students themselves. In past years, we have had yoga classes, conversation classes in different languages, the celebration of cultural nights (Asian night, Latin night, European night, etc.), as well as institutional activities open to students (Zumba classes, academic "brown bag" lunches, etc.) The current situation has forced students to become more creative with regards to socialising and ensuring a rich student life at UPEACE.

Learn more about what to expect from your stay in Costa Rica, including approximate living expenses, here.

Career Info

Career Prospects

Graduates of the programme will be sensitive to peace-oriented values and principles and empowered with a critical understanding and knowledge of the root causes of diverse conflicts as well as nonviolent strategies for transforming these conflicts toward a peaceful world. They will also be able to share creative curriculum and pedagogical skills in peace education in formal contexts (e.g., schools, universities, departments or ministries of education) and equally in non-formal and community contexts (e.g., intergovernmental or state agencies, private sector, NGOs, and CSOs). Graduates will be able to consult on educational practices or engage in educational research. Current PE Alumni are working as:

Peace Education Trainers
Teachers
Principals
Education Consultants
Educators/ Education Coordinators in Aid/Refugee situations
Curriculum Designers
Workshop Facilitators
Community Workers
Local Peacebuilders
Professors
International NGO Workers
Restorative Justice Facilitators
Local NGO Workers

Stories from Upeacers

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The UPEACE application process is conducted 100% online through our application forms. Check out our TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION below and feel free to contact the Admissions Team at any time during the application process for assistance, including the retrieval of your Application ID.

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Academic Course Calendar and Professors

UPM 6001-UPEACE Foundation Course

3Credits

UPEACE Resident Faculty

Amr Abdalla

Egypt/United States

PCS 6013-Gender and Peacebuilding

3Credits

Uzma Rashid

Pakistan

UPM 6003-The United Nations System and UPMUNC (Part I)

2Credits

Mihir Kanade

India

Guest Speakers

PCS-6006-1-Critical Seminars - First Critical Seminar

0Credits

Adriana Salcedo

Ecuador/United States

Uzma Rashid

Pakistan

Stephanie Knox Steiner

United States

PEP 6010-Peace Education: Theory and Practice

3Credits

Stephanie Knox Steiner

United States

PCS 6011-Tools for Conflict Resolution and Transformation

3Credits

Balázs Kovács

Hungary

PCS-6006-2-Critical Seminars - Second Critical Seminar

0Credits

Adriana Salcedo

Ecuador/United States

Uzma Rashid

Pakistan

Stephanie Knox Steiner

United States

PCS 6008-Research Methodology

3Credits

Uzma Rashid

Pakistan

PEP 6046-Restorative Justice

3Credits

Erin Dunlevy

United States

PCS-6006-3-Critical Seminars - Third Critical Seminar

0Credits

Adriana Salcedo

Ecuador/United States

Uzma Rashid

Pakistan

Stephanie Knox Steiner

United States

PCS-6016-Narrative Approaches to Conflict and Peace

2Credits

Maurício Vieira

Brazil

PEP 6044-Education for Sustainability

3Credits

Mirian Vilela

Brazil

PEP 6025-Education in Emergencies: Armed Conflicts, Disasters and Health Crises

3Credits

Kees Wiebering

Netherlands

PCS 6015-PeaceLab

3Credits

Kees Wiebering

Netherlands

PCS-6006-4-Critical Seminars - Fourth Critical Seminar

1Credits

Adriana Salcedo

Ecuador/United States