Country: Austria
Registration deadline: 26 Jul 2019
Starting date: 10 Nov 2019
Ending date: 20 Nov 2019
During this master class, participants get acquainted with the underlying philosophical approaches, theoretical concepts and practical tools for facilitating conflict transformation in complex constellations. Participants will develop skills, and practice a facilitator’s attitude to apply their knowledge in different Settings (eg. as inside mediators, as third party, or when working with potential veto groups) and at different societal levels.
Participants will:
- learn the dfiference between concepts, such as conflict management, conflict resolution, conflict transformation, dialogue, mediation, negotiation, facilitation;
- apply tools for complex conflict analysis (actors mapping, structural power analysis, analysis of cultural meanings, needs analysis);
- develop key competencies on how to promote, support and guide reflective 'deep dialogue' processes;
- develop strategies on how to deal with dynamics of exclusion and stigmatisation, as well as power asymmetries in conflict constellations.
Faculty:
Gudrun Kramer is the director of the ASPR and board member of the Herbert C. Kelman Institute and OSCE Academy in Bishkek. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of conflict transformation gained through her work in different conflict zones, such as South Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. From 2010-2017 she joined GIZ as Head of Programs related to 'Supporting Palestinian Refugees', and, amongst others, has delivered lectures and trainings at various universities in Austria, at the OSCE Academy in Kyrgyzstan, the Université de Paris Sud and more.
Wilfried Graf is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Integrative Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Vienna (IICP), today Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (HKI), with associates in Vienna, Jerusalem and Ramallah. He has been working as advisor, trainer and senior research fellow in conflict regions and post-conflict societies, particularly the Balkans, South Caucasus, Central Asia and Sri Lanka. Today his work focuses primarily on Israel/Palestine. He is lecturer and trainer at several universities and has co-developed a specific approach to 'interactice conflict transformation', integrating the approach of 'Complexity Thinking' (Edgar Morin) and the interactional approach of 'Interactive Problem Solving' (Herbert C. Kelman).
How to register:
Applicants must fill in an online application form and upload supporting documents in one file.
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To complete the application, you will be asked to upload:
- Your Curriculum Vitae
- A recent photograph
- A scan of the data page of your passport
Please upload these documents in one file - the file name should be your "first name, last name".
Scholarship applications must be submitted before the scholarship application deadline, which can be found in the course description. We cannot provide financial support for travel expenses.
After the scholarship deadline, only applications of self-financed candidates can be considered. The ASPR will notify applicants about the decision of the admission board shortly after the scholarship application deadline.
Selected participants must subsequently confirm their participation and transfer a down payment of €250 to the IPT account before the deadline indicated in the letter of invitation.
You are kindly requested to transfer the rest of the course fee before the beginning of the IPT course. Otherwise we are not able to consider your application effective. You are encouraged to transfer the entire course fee in one sum (including the down payment) to the IPT account to save on banking costs. (For our refund policy, see FAQ.)
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Should you have any questions about the application process or encounter any difficulties, please contact Ms. Silvia Polster at ipt@aspr.ac.at