UNOY Peacebuilders (UNOY) is partnering with the Utrecht Summer School on ‘Peace and Human Rights Education’, which will take place from 31 July-12 August 2011 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
The Utrecht Summer School started in 1987 with only one course and has since developed into a broad selection of over 130 courses, with participants from around 80 countries. Utrecht University has developed into one of Europe’s largest and most prominent institutes of research and education.
The course ‘Peace and Human Rights Education’ builds on the ideas of an education for peace and human rights, as it is formulated by the UN Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). This year special emphasis will be placed on 1) Asian case study examples of peace and human rights education; and 2) the role of arts and creative educational approaches as a response to situations of injustice and violence.
As a partner of the Summer School, UNOY will organise on the 10th August workshops on ‘The role and possible impact of NGOs in the creative/art approaches to peace, Justice and Human Rights’. Through case study examples the students get a feeling of the work in the ‘field’, whether in the Global South or on a global scale through art, education and campaigning.
The UNOY Morning will be seen as an opportunity for UNOY to give students a deeper level of understanding of the complexity of fieldwork and the external factors that can influence the peace and human rights work that is done.
This session will take place in UNOY’s office in Laan van Meerdervoort 70 in the Hague from 9.00 to 13.00.
UNOY Peacebuilders is a global network of 49 youth peacebuilding associations throughout the world. The aim of UNOY Peacebuilders is to facilitate the build-up of the capacities of members and youth to mobilize them to be effective contributors to the creation of peaceful societies; to develop positive youth engagement in international and national processes related to peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
For more information on the Summer School, please visit http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S2 or contact Sybylla Anderson, Project Officer on email hidden; JavaScript is required
