Summer Peacebuilding Institute 2014 - Still time to apply for courses Posted by William Goldberg on March 25, 2014 at 9:33am in Training Opportunities, Conferences and EventsView Discussions There is still room in several courses being offered this year at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Do you want to . . . Explore a justice system that can help victims and communities Discover the ways that traumatic events affect people and communities and discuss ways to recover from trauma Learn to include conflict assessment, trauma-sensitivity, and monitoring & evaluation in organizational programming Apply social media and playback theatre techniques to activism, advocacy, and collective responses to conflict and trauma Are you interested in: Gaining new skills or knowledge in addressing conflict and building peace? Enhancing already existing skills? Sharing stories and experiences with people from 40 countries? The Summer Peacebuilding Institute is not just for peacebuilders. We provide broad-based and specialized trainings that empower you to contextualize knowledge gained to their own situations. If you answered yes to any of the above, join the more than 150 people from 40 countries at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI), May 5 - June 13, 2014. This year SPI is offering several new courses at the frontiers of peacebuilding, including: Media for Societal Transformation, where you can learn to use video and social media to get your message out. Trauma-Sensitive Practice and Programming, to explore how to include trauma-sensitivity in all stages of emergency response and post-conflict recovery work. The Impact of Social Issues on Restorative Justice will look at the effects of race, class, gender, and culture on individual and community conflict and resilience. Peace by Design, where participants will discuss how the design of working spaces conveys a message that helps or hinders the work. Applied Playback Theatre for Conflict Transformation, to teach you how to be part of a team of actors that weaves together stories from the audience into a single narrative, while respecting and validating each individual story. Mindfulness teaches you to give full and non-judgmental attention in all situations and how to reflect on the similarities and differences between people in conflict that help or hurt situations. See our website for a full list of courses and instructor bios. For more information, including costs, scholarship opportunities, and lodging or transport information: Check out our website at emu.edu/spi visit our facebook page at https://facebook/summer.peacebuilding.institute Call 540-432-4672 Contact us by e-mail To be added to our e-zine mailing list, click here The Summer Peacebuilding Institute is a program of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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