PEACEBUILDING, CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION &
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION AND RESOLUTION

June 2 - 6, 2003, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation and Post-War Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Resolution (PCTR 2003), is the only five-days intensive training programme/workshop of its kind, exploring all three phases of violence and war -- pre-violence, violence, post-violence -- and what can be done, for advanced practitioners, aid and development workers, international diplomats, national and local level politicians, and policy makers.

The PCTR 2003 is designed to help practitioners, policy makers, and aid and development workers in societies affected, threatened by, or in a post-war situation.  One of TRANSCEND’s most intense and high level training programmes, the PCTR has been created to help participants strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the structures and dynamics of war and violent conflict, and skills, tools and approaches useful for peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and post-war reconstruction, reconciliation, and healing. 

The PCTR Training Programme/Workshop offers participants an intensive and stimulating environment in which to address the challenges and difficulties facing them in their communities and work, and to learn together with advanced practitioners from around the world.  It has been designed to build upon the best aspects of TRANSCEND’s advanced training programmes for practitioners, together with a working needs-based approach to respond to the particular situations and needs of the participants involved and the dynamics of the conflicts in their communities.

Bridging the fields of theory and practice, the PCTR 2003  will be highly effective for those working to prevent the outbreak of violent conflict in their countries/communities, to transform violent and intractable conflicts towards peaceful and constructive outcomes, and/or to promote reconstruction, reconciliation, resolution and healing in post-war situations.

THE TRAINING PROGRAMME - June 2 - 6, 2003

The Training Programme will take place from Monday to Friday, June 2 - 6, 2003 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The Training Programme will be divided into a Morning and Afternoon session for each day, combining intensive training, group work, workshop sessions, and individually designed working modules.  There will be a two hours break for lunch and individual work in between, and additional breaks for tea and coffee in each session. The programme will begin each day at 09:00, and run until 18:00.

THE TRAINING SCHEDULE

Monday, June 2

Morning Session: Introduction to the Programme, Trainer and Participants followed by an Introduction to the TRANSCEND Method of Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means

Afternoon Session: The TRANSCEND Method Continued

Tuesday, June 3

Morning Session: Identifying the Challenges: Violence Prevention, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding, and Post-War Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Resolution

Afternoon Session: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation: Mapping Actors, Resources, and Strategies

Wednesday, June 4

Morning Session: People and Community Centred Approaches to Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding

Afternoon Session: Violence Prevention and Conflict Transformation

Thursday, June 5

Morning Session: Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation in War-Torn Societies

Afternoon Session: Post-War Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Resolution and Healing

Friday, June 6

Morning Session: Building a Culture of Peace and Reconciliation: Peace Journalism, Peace Education and Peace Praxis

Afternoon Session: Participants Presentations

THE TRAINER AND FACILITATOR

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen is founder and Director of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and Co-Director of TRANSCEND, and is on the Executive Board of the TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU).  He has worked in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Russia, South Eastern Europe, North America, and the Middle East at the invitation of governments, inter-governmental organisations, UN agencies, and local organisations and communities promoting local development, community empowerment, and peacebuilding.  He has written and published widely, and is author of The Struggle Continues: The Political Economy of Globalisation and People's Struggles for Peace (Pluto, forthcoming), co-author, together with Johan Galtung and Carl Jacobsen, of Searching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND (Pluto, 2000 & 2002) and Editor of the TRANSCEND book series published together with Pluto Press, Critical Peace Studies: Peace by Peaceful Means.  He is also a member of the Executive Board of the Journal of Peace and Development and the Executive Board of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and an Associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, as well as an advisor to several governments, foreign ministries, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Council of Europe.  In 1999 he was founder and Director of the Coalition for Global Solidarity and Social Development, and in 2000, together with Johan Galtung, he was founder of the Nordic Institute for Peace Research (NIFF).  Since 1996 he has provided more than 130 training programmes in peacebuilding, development, and constructive conflict transformation to more than 3000 participants in 26 countries.

Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen will be supported by the staff of the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR).

PARTICIPANTS - Who Can Take Part?

The PCTR 2003 Training Programme/workshop is intended for experienced aid and development workers, national and local level politicians and policy makers, diplomats, senior NGO staff, human rights and peace workers.

Participants are requested to send in a copy of their CV and the completed Application Form no later than May 1st, 2003 (see the end of this document for the Application Form). The programme is limited to a maximum number of 35 participants, and applicants are requested to send in their applications as early as possible in order to guarantee a place in the programme.

Detailed information about travel to Cluj-Napoca will be sent to those who have registered.

COSTS AND FEES                                                      

Participation fees for the full 5-days training programme are:
Participants from North America, Western Europe and South-East Asia/Oceania: US$500
Participants from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe: US$300

The participation fee covers participation in the training programme, and all materials, including:

  • Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach, The United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme Manual (UNDP 2000) 

  • earching for Peace: The Road to TRANSCEND by Johan Galtung, Carl Jacobsen and Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen (Pluto Press, 2002)

  • Peace by Peaceful Means by Johan Galtung (Sage Press, 1996)

  • After Violence: 3R - Reconstruction, Reconciliation, Resolution

  • as well as accommodation for five days and nights.

Accommodation is provided in double rooms.  Single room accommodation is available for all participants for US$100 extra for the week.

THE ORGANISERS

TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means

TRANSCEND is a network of more than 200 of the world’s leading practitioners and scholars in peacebuilding and development from over 60 countries around the world.  Committed to the promotion of peace by peaceful means, TRANSCEND has 20 active programmes, and conducts its work through action, education/training, dissemination and research.  With centres in Barcelona (Spain), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Geneva (Switzerland), Hagen (Germany), Honolulu (USA), Kyoto (Japan), Moscow (Russia), Sandnes (Norway), Taplow Court (Great Britain), Torino (Italy), Vienna (Austria), and Washington, DC (USA) – with several others now being formed in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia – TRANSCEND has provided more than 300 training programmes for over 6000 participants in 43 countries around the world.  Participants in TRANSCEND training programmes have included politicians, diplomats, aid and development workers, teachers, psychologists, social workers, journalists, civil service employees, UN staff, professors, students, and others.  In 2000, TRANSCEND developed the United Nations’ first ever manual on “Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means: The TRANSCEND Approach.”  Currently, TRANSCEND is doing research on: Peacebuilding and Empowerment; Non-Territorial Federalism and Functional Independence; Self-Determination and the Nation/State Dialectic; Peacebuilding and Globalisation; Conflict Transformation and Psychological Assumptions; Comparing Methods of Conflict Transformation from Micro, Meso and Macro-Levels; the Dialogue Process; Local and Subsistence Economics; Models for Global Economic Crises; Understanding Genocide.  TRANSCEND has recently launched the new TRANSCEND Media Service, and is in the process of developing the Conflict Transformation Index (CTI) and TRANSCEND Early Warning Index (EWI).  TRANSCEND perspectives are freely available on the Internet (www.transcend.org), and a TRANSCEND monthly Bulletin is being prepared for distribution in 12 languages.                          

PATRIR – The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania

Founded on March 1st, 2001, the PATRIR, is an institute, organisation, training centre and network, linking together scholars, grassroots activists, and peace researchers throughout Romania and South-Eastern Europe.  Its aim is to address the core challenges facing Romania and the countries of South and Eastern Europe, to strengthen and empower grassroots organisations and citizens’ action, to mobilise people for active peace work and peaceful conflict transformation, and to address the structural causes of poverty, human rights violations and economic and social injustice.  PATRIR is an institute and an organisation for research, training and active peace work.  PATRIR organises training programmes in peacebuilding and peaceful conflict transformation; peace journalism; democracy and human rights; multi-culturalism; empowering civil society; gender and peace; sustainable development; post-war reconstruction, reconciliation and resolution; and, environment and ecology.  Participants to PATRIR training programmes frequently include senior politicians and diplomats, experienced aid and development workers, UN and NGO staff, civil society activists, professors, teachers, students, journalists, artists, and psychologists from Romania and more than 30 countries internationally.  PATRIR cooperates with TRANSCEND as the TRANSCEND Centre for South-Eastern Europe.  Since 2001, PATRIR has been one of TRANSCEND’s leading international training sites.

For more information or to register as a participant, please contact:

training@transcend.org