Intercultural Department

Initiation course in “Education for Peace”

In a globalized and deeply interconnected world, the teaching-learning process in higher education faces unprecedented challenges. Faced with a critical current scenario, in which the global problems are transversal, threaten international peace and security and prevent the achievement of a democratic and equitable international order, It is appropriate to venture into resilience models and educational strategies through the use of new technologies.

This motivates the formation of a global citizen able to resolve conflicts through respect for human rights, democratic principles, equality, solidarity, de environmental Protection, universal accessibility and promotion of a Peace culture.

Hence, the intercultural competence in the student curriculum in higher education it has become a real need, since it consolidates a new way of seeing, understanding and living the current world.

One of the educational proposals, which has existed for years and which today is gaining notoriety in a globalized context, is the Collaborative International Online Learning (COIL). This model emerges as an innovative methodology that takes advantage of online technologies to offer global learning and intercultural experiences in the classroom.

A COIL experience for education in a Culture of Peace that allows building peaceful futures is a lesson in academic content, in intercultural communication and collaboration that promotes not only the internationalization of higher education, but also the possibility of dabbling in resilience models and educational strategies through the use of information and communication technologies, as well as learning and knowledge.

Finally, it should be noted that this chair is aligned in accordance with the sustainable development objectives approved by the UN in the 2030 agenda on Sustainable Development, specifically SDG 4: Quality education and SDG 4: Peace, Justice and strong institutions, in order to train ambassadors of Peace that promote and strengthen the bond, equality and inclusive partition through the development of soft skills in an interconnected world.

Brochure International Intercultural Chair

International Chair Brochure – Spanish

Intercultural Chair Brochure – Portuguese

Objectives

General objective: 

Promote the interdisciplinary and intercultural training of qualified students and teachers to analyze and build peaceful futures, through online international collaborative learning for education in Culture of Peace.

Specific objectives:
  • Discover other cultures, customs and ways of working to promote a culture of peace, through the application of the COIL methodology.
  • Formulate a conceptual framework on peace, culture of peace and peace education.
  • Share tools that allow promoting an intercultural experience among the actors involved, with a transformative approach from mediation to everyday life and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

UM responsible areas

International Relations Department and Language Center
  • Internationalization at Home
School of Law and Social Sciences
  • Academic Coordination of the Intercultural Chair
    Initiation course in “Education for Peace”

course modality

Intercultural Chair Initiation course in “Education for Peace”
Universidad de Chile
  • Collaborative International Online Teaching Method (COIL).
Course date: 
  • Start of the chair: October 3, 2023
  • Course day: Tuesdays October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7 and 14, 2023
  • Opening hours: 3:5 p.m to 30:XNUMX p.m. (Argentina time)
  • Language: Spanish
Total duration of the chair: 
  • 7 online meetings of 5 hours each (synchronous and asynchronous).
    • Synchronous duration: 2 hours 30
    • Asynchronous duration: 2 hours 30.

Evaluation

To obtain the certificate of participation and approval provided by the Intercultural Chair of the UM in this introductory course to "Education for Peace", the following requirements must be met:

  1. Attend -at least- 5 of the 7 modules of this course taught in a synchronous online mode.
  2. Participate -at least- in 80% of the asynchronous activities proposed in this course.
  3. Comply with the criteria indicated in the Checklist to evaluate the performance of the participants in each module.
Certification of the Universidad de Mendoza

Academic program

Module 1: Peace and Culture (October 3)
  • Peace concepts. Historical evolution.
  • Dimensions of Peace. The Peaces.
  • Negative Peace. Positive Peace. Neutral Peace.
  • Gaia Peace or Environmental Peace. Feminist Peace. Imperfect Peace.
  • Transformative Peace.
  • Peace culture. Concept.
Module 2: Peace and Conflict (10 of October)
  • Introduction to peace and conflict studies. critical approaches.
  • Peace and Nonviolence.
  • Violence and culture of violence.
  • Positive vision of the Conflict. Ways of Addressing the Conflict. Notions of Conflict Management. Power, Law, Interests. (Mediation, Negotiation, Facilitation.)
  • Conflict Theories: Analysis, Different types and their causes. Dimensions and stages. Dynamics and statics of the conflict.
  • Actors: objectives, power, third parties in the conflict. Conflict intensity. conflictual interaction. End of conflicts.
  • Prevention of violent conflicts. Conflict Mapping.
Module 3: Peace and Security (October 17)
  • International peace and security in the Charter of the United Nations.
  • Human security: origin and evolution of the concept.
  • Dimensions of human security.
  • Outcome Document of the 2005 World Summit (paragraph 143).
  • Human development and human security.
  • New threats to human security in the Anthropocene.
  • Human security and the human right to peace in the draft Universal Declaration on the Human Right to Peace of civil society, of January 30, 2023, and in previous projects since the Declaration of Luarca (2006).
Module 4: Peace and Communication (October 24)
  • Communication theory. Main notions: circular model of human communication. Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic. axioms. Basic concepts of non-verbal and para-verbal communication.
  • Communication skills for peace.
  • Mediation tools: Active listening, questions, paraphrasing, summary and feedback.
  • Culture of dialogue.
  • Dialogue as a tool for the construction of peace. Adversarial and non-adversarial dialogues. Appreciative Dialogues. Nansen dialogue. Nonviolent communication. Assertive communication.
Module 5: Peace, Environment and Development (October 31)
  • The link between peace and environmental protection.
  • The conflicts generated by the exploitation of resources.
  • The environment as another victim of wars. The importance of achieving sustainable development. What role do we play in building a peaceful, just and inclusive society?
Module 6: Peace and Valuing diversity (November 7)
  • Emotions and Needs.
  • Emotions in the dynamics of attraction and rejection.
  • Recognition and management of emotions to resolve conflicts. Cultural assumptions about the conflict and the possibilities of management.
  • Deconstruction of the Image of the Enemy. Configuration of the other as an enemy, adversary and similar.
  • Stereotypes and prejudices. Gender, feminisms and new masculinities. Disability perspective. Interculturality.
Module 7: Peaceful transformation of my reality (November 14)
  • The passage to action. (Education for Peace as Information, Training and Action)
  • Design of socio-community intervention projects in, with and for the community.

teachers in charge

Academic coordination of the Initiation Course in “Education for Peace”
Guardatti, Georgina A.

Teachers of the Intercultural Chair

Universidad de Mendoza
Arrieta Guevara, María Marta
Alé, María Cristina
Attention, María Cecilia
Bertone, Macarena
Erice, Maria Valentina
Guardatti, Georgina A.

Universidad de Chile
Aguirre, Gonzalo
Anich Sfeir, Gabriel Emilio
Lages, Rita
Moure, Ana María
Sánchez, Ignacio Antonio

Teacher members of the Federal Network of Studies on the Human Right to Peace (REFEPAZ)

Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Barrios, Maria Teresa

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Martínez, Eliana Irene

Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero
Musso, José Antonio

Addresses

  • University students of all nationalities (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate)
  • Teachers of all levels
  • Public interested in the topic of peace
Only requirement:
  • Spanish level: B1.
Scholarships:
  • 100% Scholarship:
    • Students of the Universidad de Mendoza and of the Universidad de Chile.
    • Teachers of the Universidad de Mendoza and of the Universidad de Chile
  • 50% scholarship
    • Students of the sponsoring universities:
      • Universidad Nacional de Rosario,
      • University of Cordoba,
      • University of Santiago del Estero.
  • 25% scholarship
    • Students and teachers from partner universities of the Universidad de Mendoza.
    • Students and teachers from member universities Iberonex.

General objective: 

Promote the interdisciplinary and intercultural training of qualified students and teachers to analyze and build peaceful futures, through online international collaborative learning for education in Culture of Peace.

Specific objectives:
  • Discover other cultures, customs and ways of working to promote a culture of peace, through the application of the COIL methodology.
  • Formulate a conceptual framework on peace, culture of peace and peace education.
  • Share tools that allow promoting an intercultural experience among the actors involved, with a transformative approach from mediation to everyday life and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

International Relations Department and Language Center
  • Internationalization at Home
School of Law and Social Sciences
  • Academic Coordination of the Intercultural Chair
    Initiation course in “Education for Peace”

Intercultural Chair Initiation course in “Education for Peace”
Universidad de Chile
  • Collaborative International Online Teaching Method (COIL).
Course date: 
  • Start of the chair: October 3, 2023
  • Course day: Tuesdays October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, November 7 and 14, 2023
  • Opening hours: 3:5 p.m to 30:XNUMX p.m. (Argentina time)
  • Language: Spanish
Total duration of the chair: 
  • 7 online meetings of 5 hours each (synchronous and asynchronous).
    • Synchronous duration: 2 hours 30
    • Asynchronous duration: 2 hours 30.

Evaluation

To obtain the certificate of participation and approval provided by the Intercultural Chair of the UM in this introductory course to "Education for Peace", the following requirements must be met:

  1. Attend -at least- 5 of the 7 modules of this course taught in a synchronous online mode.
  2. Participate -at least- in 80% of the asynchronous activities proposed in this course.
  3. Comply with the criteria indicated in the Checklist to evaluate the performance of the participants in each module.
Certification of the Universidad de Mendoza

Module 1: Peace and Culture (October 3)
  • Peace concepts. Historical evolution.
  • Dimensions of Peace. The Peaces.
  • Negative Peace. Positive Peace. Neutral Peace.
  • Gaia Peace or Environmental Peace. Feminist Peace. Imperfect Peace.
  • Transformative Peace.
  • Peace culture. Concept.
Module 2: Peace and Conflict (10 of October)
  • Introduction to peace and conflict studies. critical approaches.
  • Peace and Nonviolence.
  • Violence and culture of violence.
  • Positive vision of the Conflict. Ways of Addressing the Conflict. Notions of Conflict Management. Power, Law, Interests. (Mediation, Negotiation, Facilitation.)
  • Conflict Theories: Analysis, Different types and their causes. Dimensions and stages. Dynamics and statics of the conflict.
  • Actors: objectives, power, third parties in the conflict. Conflict intensity. conflictual interaction. End of conflicts.
  • Prevention of violent conflicts. Conflict Mapping.
Module 3: Peace and Security (October 17)
  • International peace and security in the Charter of the United Nations.
  • Human security: origin and evolution of the concept.
  • Dimensions of human security.
  • Outcome Document of the 2005 World Summit (paragraph 143).
  • Human development and human security.
  • New threats to human security in the Anthropocene.
  • Human security and the human right to peace in the draft Universal Declaration on the Human Right to Peace of civil society, of January 30, 2023, and in previous projects since the Declaration of Luarca (2006).
Module 4: Peace and Communication (October 24)
  • Communication theory. Main notions: circular model of human communication. Syntactic, Semantic, Pragmatic. axioms. Basic concepts of non-verbal and para-verbal communication.
  • Communication skills for peace.
  • Mediation tools: Active listening, questions, paraphrasing, summary and feedback.
  • Culture of dialogue.
  • Dialogue as a tool for the construction of peace. Adversarial and non-adversarial dialogues. Appreciative Dialogues. Nansen dialogue. Nonviolent communication. Assertive communication.
Module 5: Peace, Environment and Development (October 31)
  • The link between peace and environmental protection.
  • The conflicts generated by the exploitation of resources.
  • The environment as another victim of wars. The importance of achieving sustainable development. What role do we play in building a peaceful, just and inclusive society?
Module 6: Peace and Valuing diversity (November 7)
  • Emotions and Needs.
  • Emotions in the dynamics of attraction and rejection.
  • Recognition and management of emotions to resolve conflicts. Cultural assumptions about the conflict and the possibilities of management.
  • Deconstruction of the Image of the Enemy. Configuration of the other as an enemy, adversary and similar.
  • Stereotypes and prejudices. Gender, feminisms and new masculinities. Disability perspective. Interculturality.
Module 7: Peaceful transformation of my reality (November 14)
  • The passage to action. (Education for Peace as Information, Training and Action)
  • Design of socio-community intervention projects in, with and for the community.

Academic coordination of the Initiation Course in “Education for Peace”
Guardatti, Georgina A.

Teachers of the Intercultural Chair

Universidad de Mendoza
Arrieta Guevara, María Marta
Alé, María Cristina
Attention, María Cecilia
Bertone, Macarena
Erice, Maria Valentina
Guardatti, Georgina A.

Universidad de Chile
Aguirre, Gonzalo
Anich Sfeir, Gabriel Emilio
Lages, Rita
Moure, Ana María
Sánchez, Ignacio Antonio

Teacher members of the Federal Network of Studies on the Human Right to Peace (REFEPAZ)

Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Barrios, Maria Teresa

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Martínez, Eliana Irene

Universidad Católica de Santiago del Estero
Musso, José Antonio

  • University students of all nationalities (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate)
  • Teachers of all levels
  • Public interested in the topic of peace
Only requirement:
  • Spanish level: B1.
Scholarships:
  • 100% Scholarship:
    • Students of the Universidad de Mendoza and of the Universidad de Chile.
    • Teachers of the Universidad de Mendoza and of the Universidad de Chile
  • 50% scholarship
    • Students of the sponsoring universities:
      • Universidad Nacional de Rosario,
      • University of Cordoba,
      • University of Santiago del Estero.
  • 25% scholarship
    • Students and teachers from partner universities of the Universidad de Mendoza.
    • Students and teachers from member universities Iberonex.

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