Senegal: Conflict resolution in Africa
The Non-Governmental Organization, Femmes Africa Solidarité (F.A.S), and the regional branch of the University of Peace (Upeace) in Costa Rica, are organizing an intensive short-course on Gender, Peace and Development, from 16 to 22 July 2006, at Laguna Beach in Mbodiène, in the department of Mbour in Senegal. The opening ceremony will be presided over by the Minister of Education, Sunday 16 July at 4pm, and will be attended by a number of important academics and researchers in the field of gender and peace.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA
A Masters in Gender and Peacebuilding in Dakar
The Non-Governmental Organization, Femmes Africa Solidarité (F.A.S), and the regional branch of the University of Peace (Upeace) in Costa Rica, are organizing an intensive short-course on Gender, Peace and Development, from 16 to 22 July 2006, at Laguna Beach in Mbodiène, in the department of Mbour in Senegal. The opening ceremony will be presided over by the Minister of Education, Sunday 16 July at 4pm, and will be attended by a number of important academics and researchers in the field of gender and peace.
Participants from over thirty different countries in Africa and around the world are coming together for this short course, which will be taught by a number of specialists in gender, peace and development. The course will be based on curriculum developed for the Masters in Gender, Peace and Development, one of the programs of the Panafrican Centre for Gender, Peace and Development.
This Centre is an initiative launched by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) May 1-2 2005, on the occasion of the Forum on Dialogue between Arab Women on Economic and Political Issues and the African Gender Award, presented to Abdoulaye Wade of Sénégal and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.
The training courses of the Centre will focus on three programmatic areas: “Gender and Peace Building”; “Leadership and Governance”; and “Economic Empowerment of Women and Development”. The first concept will be developed with the support of the University for Peace (UPEACE) of Costa Rica with whom FAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2005.
At the same time, FAS is in the process of collaborating with the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid with the view of jointly developing the programme of the Centre on “Economic Empowerment of Women and Development.”
In addition, FAS envisions a cooperative agreement with the Centre Carmel of Israel in the area of Leadership and Governance
A harmonization seminar took place March 10-11 2006 at Notovel Hotel in Dakar, under the presence of the Minister of Women Affairs, Family and Social Development and the Deputy Minister of Education in charge of curriculum development, to permit the harmonization of programmes by FAS and UPEACE before the launching of the Centre’s courses.
F.A.S, which has just launched a study of 10 years of Peacebuilding in Africa, works in partnership with several international institutions and United Nations agencies.
For more information, contact the Communications Officer at the Regional Office of FAS, located in Dakar at 221 860-20-48 or at 221 550-52-47 or go to the website : WWW.fasngo.org
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