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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:28:55 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [indiathinkersnet] SOUTH ASIA FORUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS -ADMISSION NOTICE
ADMISSION NOTICE
SIXTH SOUTH ASIAN ORIENTATION COURSE IN HUMAN RIGHTS
AND PEACE STUDIES -2006
SOUTH ASIA FORUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
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Applications are invited for the Sixth South Asian
Orientation Course in Human Rights and Peace Studies.
The last date for receiving applications is
25 March 2006. Application form can be downloaded
fromhttp://www.safhr-hrps.org/ApplicationForm.doc
and
http://www.safhr.org/ApplicationForm.doc
The course will have three components:
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A three months long distance learning beginning 1 May 2006;
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Field work in August; and,
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A three-week long Direct Orientation in September 2006.
The Distance-learning will be conducted on SAFHRs
secure e-learning platform. Participants will also
receive the course material on CDs. However,
familiarity with e-learning skills and proficiency
in the English language are essential.
Six compulsory modules of the course are:
¨ Basic Concepts of Human Rights;
¨ Constitution, laws and justice;
¨ Conflicts and the Politics of Peace;
¨ The Global War on Terror;
¨ Globalization, politics of technology
and environmental justice, and
¨ Media and Conflict.
Between thirty to thirty-five participants, preferably
between 25 and 40, will be selected on the basis of
the nature and the quality of their involvement with
the issues of human rights, peace, democracy and development
in the region. Each applicant has to send a filled in
application form, mentioning where he or she has seen
the course advertisement, with two references, and a
1000-word essay explaining the relation of the applicants
work to human rights and peace studies and reasons for
applying for the course. The selection will be guided by
the necessity to have a balanced representation of
participants from all the countries in the region, women
activists, refugee activists, media practitioners, members
of minority groups, researchers, academics, policy makers,
leaders of non-governmental organizations and government
officials. A maximum of four participants from outside
South Asia will be selected.
For the direct orientation, the participants will have
to find their own funding to travel. SAFHR will provide
boarding and lodging.
The selected participants from South Asia will have to
deposit a registration fee of US $ 100 the latest by
15 April 2006. Participants from outside South Asia have
to pay US $ 400. The enrollment of the participants will
be confirmed only after that.
For further information on the course structure,
content and methodologies, read the fifth course
report at
http://www.safhr-hrps.org/asset/Peace%20studies%20report5.pdf
Electronic, facsimile and postal submissions are a
cceptable.
Those sending the applications by post or courier
should do so to the HRPS secretariat at the following
address:
With warm Regards
Vinita Aggarwal
Desk Officer
south Asia orientation Course in Human Rights
and Peace Studies
South Asia Forum For Human rights
T-26, (Basement) Green park Main
New Delhi-110016
India
Tel: +91-11-41682841/42
Telefax:+91-11-41682840
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