CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

The Peace and Public Policy Center will offer a one-year Certificate Program aimed to train individuals on the principles of peace, non-violence, conflict resolution, and reconciliation. Related subjects will also be included that involve understanding the history and present state of a region’s social, economic, and political challenges and triumphs. The attendees will be schooled on the ways all of these concepts and their principles affect individuals, families, communities, businesses, and public policies. The curriculum will be taught to the attendees and they will also be trained on how to teach others the curriculum.

There are two distinct groups that will attend the program:

  • U.S. educators who will commit to spending one year in an African host country training teachers in the proposed program and curriculum; and
  • Top African policy makers. At the beginning of each year, approximately 30 U.S. educators and 20 African policy makers will begin their three quarters of courses at the university holding the institute. Participants will take a mixture of core courses and electives, in policy analysis, international relations, government, education, community development, African studies, not-for-profit management, and conflict mediation.

The purpose of having both U.S. and African participants together is so that they can learn from each other. Once the three quarters are complete, the U.S. participants will go to their African host country and, after a short period of orientation, will begin teaching courses to K-12 and post-secondary teachers. The teachers would then incorporate the peace curriculum into their classes. Their African counterparts will use the summer to do an internship, either in a government or not-for-profit institution.

Once this internship is complete, they would then return to their policy work in their country.

All participants will receive a certificate from the university’s institute upon successful completion and will be considered a Fellow of the institute (e.g Kofi Annan Fellow).

 
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