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Peacebuilding: A Path to Global Competency
David J. SmithIndependent ConsultantGeorge Mason University
CCID 38th Annual ConferenceLas Vegas, NV
February 22-24, 2014
Peacebuilding: A Definition
Originally conceived in the context of post-conflict recovery efforts to promote reconciliation and reconstruction, the term peacebuilding has more recently taken on a broader meaning. It may include providing humanitarian relief, protecting human rights, ensuring security, establishing nonviolent modes of resolving conflicts, fostering reconciliation, providing trauma healing services, repatriating refugees and resettling internally displaced persons, supporting broad-based education, and aiding in economic reconstruction. As such, it also includes conflict prevention in the sense of preventing the recurrence of violence, as well as conflict management and post-conflict recovery. In a larger sense, peacebuilding involves a transformation toward more manageable, peaceful relationships and governance structures—the long-term process of addressing root causes and effects, reconciling differences, normalizing relations, and building institutions that can manage conflict without resort to violence.
– Peace Terms, U.S. Institute of Peace
Peacebuilding: A FrameworkStrategic Peacebuilding Paths
John Paul Lederach and Katie Mansfield, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Essential Questions
What is peacebuilding? How can it promote global
competency? How is it being advanced in
community colleges today? What are the implications
for student learning, career development, and a college mission?
What are resources available for faculty, students, and administrators?
Peacebuilding: An Applied Science
Building a House
PlanToolsResources (materials, money, vehicles, etc.)
Labor
Scenario: Work for an NGO working in a conflict zone where there is violence/tension due to religious/cultural differences
Building Peace
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Advancing Global Competency
Students engage in exploring contemporary global issues
Students consider implications for personal, collective, corporate, and governmental action
Students reflect on their role as a global citizen
Students develop global awareness, applicable skills (conflict analysis, language, etc.), and increased confidence levels
Students develop career and personal objectives
Academic Forms in Community Colleges
Academic Degree/Non Degree Programs (30 U.S. and Canadian community colleges)
Peace Studies Conflict Resolution/Management
Stand Alone Courses/Course Infusion Introduction to Peace Studies Human Rights and International Law Conflict Resolution Techniques
Study Abroad Troika Program (students, faculty) Fulbright (faculty, administrators)
Experiential Learning Model UN International Negotiations Modules Project Freirian approaches to learning (Paulo
Freire) Community Based Learning
Peace Fairs Service Learning
Implications for Student Learning, Career Development ,
and a College Mission Tapping often unrecognized strengths of
students (language, travel, maturity, careers) Provide career/professional goals = increased
rates of completion and transfer Integration among a range of disciplines
(social sciences, humanities, vocational education [health sciences, business], ESOL, etc.)
Provide connections including to transfer institutions, local/global NGOs, local communities, and diaspora groups
Resources
Peacebuilding in Community Colleges: A Teaching Resource (USIP Press, 2013)
Professional Development U.S. Institute of Peace, American Red
Cross, etc. (and book appendix resources) My blog: davidjsmithblog.wordpress.com Conferences/meetings
George Mason University, June 2014 Scottsdale Community College, April 2014
Conflict Resolution Education Connection
Thank you!
David J. Smith, MS, JDEducational Consultant and Peacebuilding Trainer
Rockville, MD (Washington, DC)240-855-4556
http://davidjsmithblog.wordpress.com/
davidjsmith@davidjsmithconsulting.comdavidjsmith@fulbrightmail.org
@davidjsmith2013
http://bookstore.usip.org/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=358277
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