The main pillars of teaching this autumn are:
1. MA Seminar: This is a series where students
present their MA projects, their work from
June-October, their discoveries, and their
proposals for development/solution/ transformation
of the problem or conflict they are working with/
analyzing. Teachers (supervisor +) and students
comment these papers, and present proposals for
improvements. Note: This will be organized so that
3-4 students, preferably those who specialize in
the same field of peace studies (e.g. Peace
Education, Globalization/Comparative Politics,
State/Minority relations, or organized according
to conflict region, etc) listen to and comment
each others’ presentations. The success of this is
dependent on cooperation between students. Each
student: 1 hour + (possibly x 2 times if the
problematique justifies it).

2. 3 Workshops / Seminars on conflict resolution w/
invited guest lecturers: 28-30 Oct, 6-7 Nov-
1-3 Dec.

3. A lecture series: The Nordic Peace. Researchers
will be invited to give lectures on this topic.
(So far, only 1 lecture is quite clear. More
lectures will come).

Oct 17: JJ: MA seminar. All day.
Oct 20: Lecture series: The Nordic Peace. Lecture I:
John Gustavsson.

(Oct 22-24:Nordic Conference on Peace Education).

Oct 28-30: J. S. Barbara, Mc Master University:
Lectures /Q-A and workshop:
Oct 28: Health effects of violence and war.
The medical response to violence and war.
How health personnel can contribute to peace.
Oct 29-30: Laboratory for peace students I:
Mediation skills (Workshop all day).

Laboratory for Peace students II:
Conflict Transformation skills (W/all day).

Laboratory for Peace students III:
Peace projecting skills (W/all day).
Laboratory for Pace students IV:
Peace activism skills (W/all day).

Nov 3: VV: MA seminar.
Nov 5: VV: MA seminar.

Nov 6-7: Kaare Lode & Ibrahim Ag Youssouf:
From Civil War to disarmament and peace.
Nonviolent intervention, case: Mali. Seminar
6 hours x 2 days. Program and readings: See
below*

Nov 10: VV: MA seminar.
Nov 12: VV: Ma seminar.

Nov 24: JJ: MA seminar.

Dec 1-3: Haakan Kellgren, Univ of Göteborg:
Conflict Resolution and mediation in
practice. W/ 6 hours x 3 days.

Dec 10: Submission of Exam Paper (10 pages/ 10
credits): Conflict resolution/ Peaceful
conflict transformation. To be evaluated
(pass/ fail) within Jan 15.
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* Center for Peace Studies, UiT seminar:
"From civil war to disarmament and peace. Is armed intervention the only medicine? The case Mali and
other cases." Guest Lecturers: Kåre Lode and Ibrahim Ag Youssuf.

Time: Nov 6.-7 2003. Place: To be announced later.
Students at the Peace Studies are especially welcome.

The seminar will explore non-violent alternatives to armed intervention and the establishment of a hegemonic power in the work order to stop civil wars and build a sustainable peace. Researcher Kåre Lode at Center for Intercultural Communication in Stavanger will show what it takes to build a lasting peace, based on his work in Mali, supplied by examples from the much less successful attempts in The Democratic Republic of Kongo."


Some relevant literature for the Workshop on Mali:
Pulton, Robin-Edward and Ibrahim Ag Youssouf,1998:
A Peace of Timbuktu - Democratic Governance, Development and African
Peacemaking, New York, Geneva, UNIDIR

Lode Kåre, 1997:
Civil Society Takes Responsibility - Popular Involvement in the Peace Process in Mali, Oslo, PRIO Report 5/97, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 108 pages, available on internet,

http://www.prio.no/publications/reports/lodemali/lode.html

Lode Kåre, 2002:
‘Mali's peace process: context, analysis and evaluation’, i Owning the process Public participation in peacemaking i Accord issue 13/2002, London pp 56-63 http://www.c-r.org/accord/peace/accord13/mapea.htm

Lode Kåre, 2002:
‘The regional concertations process: engaging the public’ i Owning the process Public participation in peacemaking i Accord issue 13/2002, London pp 64-65 http://www.c-r.org/accord/peace/accord13/mareg.htm

Lode Kåre,2002:
‘Inter-community meetings and national reconciliation: forging a pragmatic peace’ i Owning the process Public participation in peacemaking i Accord issue 13/2002, London pp 66-73
http://www.c-r.org/accord/peace/accord13/maint.htm