Program Overview
"When I returned home from CONTACT I was offered a new job as program coordinator for a dialogue and reconciliation center that CONTACT has prepared me to accept. Special thanks to you and your institute and the faculty in Kathmandu for giving me the chance to interact with the beautiful minds of SAARC nations."
-- Indian participant
Increase your capacity to implement innovative and sustainable peacebuilding programs in South Asia.
CONTACT SAARC is committed to the development of self-reflective, inter-connected, and deeply engaged South Asian practitioners who have the skills, attitudes, mutual trust, and competencies to strengthen greater regional peace and to promote development, cultural respect, and prosperity.
Program Goal
To increase the visions, motivation, and implementing capacity of South Asians to establish collaborative cross-border relationships that will contribute to conflict transformation, sustainable peace, and increased development.
Topics include:
- Conflict analysis
- Conflict management skills and techniques
- Conflict-sensitive development
- Inter-group dialogue
- Transitional justice and reconciliation
- Negotiation and mediation
These skills and tools can help peacebuilders in preventing inter-communal conflicts from escalating into problems that threaten regional, national, and even global security. Citizen activists, NGO leaders, academics, government employees, social service providers, and others will increase their knowledge and approaches to peacebuilding, and come to greater understanding and empathy for their counterparts throughout the SAARC region.
Structure:
The South Asia Program will be taught in English by both international and South Asian experts. Forty highly qualified participants will be accepted annually through an application process and selected to represent the diversity of the region. CONTACT Program Manager Mariana Syrotiak will coordinate the program with CONTACT Director Dr. Paula Green, who is based in the US but teaches frequently in Nepal and elsewhere in the South Asian region.
Phone:
877.257.7751, extension 3433
802.258.3433
TTY:
802.258.3388
Fax:
802.258.3320
Mailing Address:
PO Box 676, 1 Kipling Road
Brattleboro, VT 05302 USA