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The innovative Post Graduate Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies is an inter-disciplinary programme with an inter-modular curriculum.  Recognizing that violence is rooted in injustice, the PG Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies seeks to respond to the need for research, education, analysis and training necessary to foster justice and peace in South Asia and the world by:

• analyzing the structural issues that cause and promote inequality and violence on local, community, national, regional, and international levels;
• exploring the links between poverty, insecurities and conflict, and the many forms of violence in the human experience, and in discriminatory institutions and cultures;
• reviewing existing methods for conflict transformation and negotiation as well as formulating new and situation-specific responses to injustice;
• developing skills in conflict transformation and providing opportunities to practice the difficult skills of nonviolent problem solving;
• conceptualizing alternative ways of living and learning in community, drawing from global, South Asian, and South Indian contexts, as well as discovering the strategies of marginalized communities, including Adaviasi, Dalit, and local traditions in peace building approaches.

The PG Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies integrates the many areas of intellectual inquiry relating to the historical and contemporary search for a peaceful and just society and world.  Conducted from the South Asian perspective, this course will prepare graduates to promote peace with justice in interpersonal, institutional, societal and global terms.

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Methodology

Embracing the participatory, problem-posing methodology of Paulo Freire, the PG Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies will be conducted in a seminar style with a focus on adult learning paradigms.  Courses will be conducted in a reading-informed guided discussion format, with weekly professional inputs. There will be a strong emphasis on team based outputs.

The PG Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies will be conducted in the English medium.

Outcomes

The PG Diploma in Justice and Peace Studies will benefit participants who are interested in expanding their awareness of social justice issues; participants who wish to develop critical and analytical skills to exist in a globally integrated world and participants who wish to make a critique of existing social and political realities and simultaneously acting as agents of progressive social transformation.  Aimed at either recent collegiate graduates or mid-career professionals, the course will equip men and women for a life in service to community, particularly in grassroots community or human rights work: though social movements, civil society organizations or faith based organizations.

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Important Dates

• Application forms due: April 25th, 2010
• Candidate Selection Announced: May 3rd, 2010
• Acceptance of Admission Due:  May 15th, 2010
• Orientation: June 8th- June 11th, 2010
• First Trimester: June 14th– September 10th, 2010
• Vacation: September 13th – September 17th, 2010
• Second Trimester: September 20th – December 31st, 2010
• Vacation: January 3rd – January 7th, 2011
• Third Trimester: January 10th – April 1st, 2011
• Final Projects: April 4th – April 6th, 2011
• Convocation: April 8th, 2011