Dear Friends:
Best wishes for a peaceful, healthy and happy new year! The School for International Training is pleased to share with you information about our professional development programs in Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (CONTACT) for the coming year. Started in 1997, CONTACT offers professional development, skills and practical training to professionals working around the world in diverse fields such as education, human services, humanitarian aid, psychology and social work, human rights, and sustainable development. Some skills addressed are:
Conflict analysis and intervention
Non-violent action
Intercommunal dialogue
Peace and development
Reconciliation and forgiveness
Training design
Intercultural negotiation and mediation
Grant writing and fundraising
Summer Institute (May 29-June 16, 2006)
The Summer Institute, offered each June, is a three-week, three-credit professional development and graduate training program in conflict transformation. It is specifically designed for field workers and managers of development and community-based organizations who serve communities in volatile environments. Particpants come from more than 30 countries each year to participate.
Graduate Certificate Program
The Graduate Certificate Program is a one-year part-time 14-credit graduate and professional development program. It is designed with two short phases of face-to-face instruction coupled with distance learning in order to accommodate the schedule of full-time working professionals. SIT also offers MA programs in conflict transformation.
Site-Specific Training
CONTACT provides site-, organization-, and region-specific programs tailored to meet the needs of a particular organization or community in a conflict or post-conflict situation.
Registration and Contact Information
Applications are available now and are due by April 15 (or as soon as possible if you are applying for financial aid or need a visa). For more about fees, funding, scholarships, and applying to CONTACT, please visit or website www.sit.edu/contact or contact us at contact@sit.edu.
Best wishes,
Eline Potoski
Program Manager
Department of Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management
School for International Training
Kipling Road, Box 676
Brattleboro, VT 05302-0676 USA
802-258-3598
fax: 802-258-3320
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