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ppplogoThe Peace Academy is happy to announce our partnership as part of a three-year project (2023-2026) entitled “Developing and Testing New Approaches to Peace Professionalism”. The project will

  1. Establish a network or a community of practice to improve our understanding of peace work and related skills, competencies, and values;
  2. Develop and test a system of assessment that can be scaled at the local, national, and international levels to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of peace professionals; and
  3. Create a platform to increase knowledge co-production, translation, and sharing about peace professionalism.

Overall, the project seeks to improve the planning, implementation, and evaluation of peace programs, and to complement curricula in peace and conflict studies.

As societies continue to fracture along political, ethnic, and ideological lines, becoming aware of and being equipped to deal with various types of trauma is increasingly relevant for all of us in our families, everyday relationships, workplaces, and communities. Trauma-sensitive peacebuilding requires that we recognize and acknowledge how individual, communal, and historical harms are root causes of communal divisions. By cultivating our sensitivity to harm and incorporating trauma healing approaches in our relationships and work, we are better equipped as peacebuilders in our interpersonal and intergroup relationships.

The Contribution of Pracademics within the International Peace Architecture

This workshop aims to foster new scholarship and debates between peace-oriented pracademics (practitioner academics), scholars, civil society actors and practitioners working in and focusing on interdisciplinary fields in cases relevant to an improved understanding of the current challenges in the International Peace Architecture (IPA). Pracademics are little understood in terms of their methodological and experiental capacities, yet they bridge practice and theory. They have been responsible for significant steps forward in the historical development of an IPA.

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Small Steps and The Peace Academy, with support from Religions for Peace Multireligious Humanitarian Fund, invites you to an online training: “The Effects of War on Individuals and Group(s) - Finding Hope in the Midst of Destruction.”  The training’s two lead trainers and guest are experienced peacebuilders and psychotherapists who have lived through the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

A grant provided for this training allows all participants to join free of charge.

If you are from Ukraine or are an Ukrainian refugee, would like to learn the impact of trauma on an individual and group levels, and are seeking ways to help yourself and others address trauma and embark on the process of healing, please apply! 

Deadline for reserving your place in the training is 3rd of October, 2022.

The training will be held online, via Zoom, in English. 

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