Developing Peace Studies in Times of Crisis
As Ethiopia is going through the most difficult internal conflicts in years, scholars from Ethiopia and Austria collaboratively work towards building institutional capaci... [more]
APPEAR - Ethiopia
“HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation”
Ethiopia is facing the effects of climate change, in the midst of one of its worst droughts ever, and is simultaneously developing faster than almost any other African nation. Growth and poverty are resulting in displacement, potential erasure of indigenous cultures and languages, and ownership of land and nature is being disputed. So, innovative, sustainable, and culturally specific approaches to peace and development are urgent. HU has recognized this need and wants to develop its capacities to be a pioneer in community-based and indigenously developed approaches to peacebuilding. UIBK has developed a rigorous and holistic approach to peace education that teaches its students to draw from their cultural context as a great source of knowledge for alternatives to conflict and violence. Thus, through biannual staff exchanges, guest lectures, skills-based facilitation and conflict analysis workshops for interdisciplinary staff and students, this partnership aims to bolster the nascent MA and PhD programs in peace building at HU. UIBK will introduce cutting edge theory, curriculum, didactics and applied approaches to peace and conflict work which strengthens HU‘s capacity to generate Ethiopian thinkers, teachers, and practitioners in the field of peace, as well as produce research that is culturally and epistemologically relevant to the Ethiopian context. In addition, the hands-on trainings given by UIBK staff in facilitation skills and approaches, and systemic conflict analysis will further contribute to the development of HU as an integrative academic space promoting engaged learning, participatory research, and innovative action. Furthermore, this partnership will support HU staff in envisioning a broader peace centre at HU that educates and facilitates peace from and for the Ethiopian context, in dialogue with the world.
Project Duration: December 2017 – November 2020
For more information regarding this project please contact the University of Innsbruck's Project Coordinator Adham Hamed: Adham.Hamed@uibk.ac.at
News
New Open Access Publication: Elicitive Curricular Development
The Innsbruck School of Peace Studies celebrates the release of a new book authored by Innsbruck faculty Echavarría, Hamed and Taylor. [more]
Zerstörung und Hoffnung
Die Universität Innsbruck unterstützt den Aufbau der Friedensforschung in Krisengebieten. Hören Sie die Kurzversion eines Radio Freirad Interviews mit Adham Hamed. [more]
David Diamond joins Peace Studies Innsbruck’s Team in Ethiopia
Elicitive Curriculum Development and Capacity Building for Peace and Conflict Studies is one of the core activities of the team of Peace and Conflict researchers at the U... [more]
Zusammenarbeit mit Äthiopien
Im Januar traf sich das Team des neuen APPEAR-geförderten Projekts „Partnership for Capacity Building in Peace and Conflict Transformation | PSICPCT“ zum Kickoff-Meeting ... [weiter]
Successful kickoff-meeting of project on peacebuilding and conflict transformation
APPEAR-funded Partnership between Haramaya University and the University of Innsbruck. A report by Adham Hamed. [more]
APPEAR on air - peace studies at University of Innsbruck and Haramaya University
Dr. Gutema I. Keno, project coordinator of the APPEAR project HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (P... [more]
HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation | PSICPCT
HU-UIBK Partnership for Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation (PSICPCT) is an academic partnership between the College of Soci... [weiter]