Office of the DeanAmerican Institute of Human Rights Re: Opening of Registration for United Nations Human Rights Defender Certificate Program. The opening of Registration will begin in the next several days. Please See attached Partial Syllabus and pre-registration questions: administrator@scholarsofpeace American Institute of Human Rights Certified United Nations Human Rights Defender-Justice Advocate Restorative Justice Studies COURSE PURPOSE This course trains United Nations Human Rights Defenders, explaining its laws, historical development, central theories; Human Rights generalist practice assessment and interventions; policy; and current issues related to the administration and implementation of Human Rights. GENERALIST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER PRACTICE The overriding goal of the American Institute of Human Rights Human Rights Defender program is to prepare Lawyers and Advanced degree Activist as Human Rights Defenders in a beginning level generalist international Human Rights practice. The broad definition used by our program provides a framework from which to build: A generalist Human Rights practice as a professionally trained person, who can engage the United Nations, persons, groups and movements in their environment in a Human Rights problem-solving process to affect personal and systemic Human Rights change. A thorough delivery of Human Rights practice must also include a complete understanding of: · Reconciliation and Restoration · Problem-solving tools of negotiation and arbitration · Filing Human Rights Communications · The ability to work with client systems of any size (individuals, families, groups, organizations, · Communities, and societies) · Involve clients throughout the process · Allow practice strategies to be determined by the client’s situation · Intervene at multiple system levels often simultaneously · Utilize evidenced-based intervention methods with client systems · Apply evaluation methods to practice and program evaluation · Recognize that Human rights values and ethics permeate all interactions · Commit to human diversity and social justice Core Competencies Core Competencies: highlighted are all competencies that apply to this class: ■Identify as a professional United Nations Human Rights Defender and conduct oneself accordingly ■Apply ethical principles to guide professional practice ■Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments ■Engage diversity and difference in practice ■Advance human rights and social and economic justice □Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research □Apply knowledge of human rights services ■Respond to contexts that shape practice ■Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities COURSE OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course the student will exhibit the following outcomes: Knowledge: 1. United Nations Conventions, Treaties, Declarations and their applications. 2. How to write U.N reports, file Communications Skills. TEACHING METHODS Teaching methods will be by review seminar in nature. This course will incorporate lectures, power point presentations, group activities, guest speakers and a 6 months internship. Defender Candidates are expected to read the assignments and come prepared for the review and power point. Additionally, the internship will be offered in which full participation is required in regards to the clinic chosen. · Restorative Justice, Sovereignty and Indigenous Status recognition · Economic Development · Political Commentator and Correspondent · Enforcement of Judgments and Human Rights Remedies · Police, Prisons, Political Prisoners ,Criminal Justice and Restorative Justice
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