Summer Peacebuilding Program
(Formerly the ‘Global Trade and Development Program’)
Dates: July 27 – August 14, 2015
Fellowship Application Deadline: February 15, 2014
Location: Middlebury Institute campus
Contact: Dr. Pushpa Iyer, (831) 647-7104 or ccspeacebuilding@miis.edu
go.miis.edu/spp
SPP provides an opportunity for participants to learn from the experiences and approaches of scholars and practitioners who work on some of the most difficult challenges our world faces today, including: resolving conflict, ending all forms of violence, providing social justice, and creating more secure and developed societies by transforming the conditions and relationships of conflict. SPP therefore welcomes all those interested in exploring the above-mentioned topics through a process of self-reflection, gathering of theoretical and conceptual data and its application to real world problems. Students and practitioners in the field of conflict, peace, development and security studies are eligible to apply.Peacebuilding is a programmatic focus area for the Center, a theme that is reflected in its field research courses, the summer Peacebuilders Fellowship, the annual conference, the research areas of its visiting scholars and its publications, especially its working papers series. As such, the Center is well positioned to bring together its many experiences and contributions to the field of peacebuilding through its network of scholars, practitioners and policy makers and present the multi-dimensionality of peacebuilding.
The 2015 SPP will be structured as below:
Week I: Conceptual Inputs
Peacebuilding, Critical Development, Security, Justice, Governance, Gender, Culture, Trauma-healing, and Reconciliation
Week II: The Praxis of Peacebuilding
Skills for Peacebuilding; Non-Violence, Media, Field Visits to organizations working on reducing gang violence in the Salinas, Soledad and Oakland areas in Northern California
Week III: Applied Practice
Participants will apply the practical knowledge, skills and theories learnt to a real world problem. Their recommendations will be evaluated by organizations that are dealing with or have dealt with a similar problem.
