Information from the Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life

•Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict Accepting Applications for 2005
•Program Manager Position Open for The Coexistence Initiative at Brandeis

Want to become a leader in Coexistence and Conflict work?
Brandeis University has a Master's Program that may interest you.

This master's program gives students a solid grounding in both the theories of Coexistence and Conflict work and the professional skills to design and implement successful interventions that enable communities to live together more equitably, respectfully, and peacefully.

The program takes place at Brandeis University near Boston, under the direction of Mari Fitzduff, Professor and Director of the program.

Who is it for?

The program is designed for early and mid-career professionals who work, or aspire to work, within governments, international agencies, or business. It also helps professionals working in related fields such as security and diplomacy, aid and development, human rights, education, and the promotion of democracy and civil society. The program takes 16 months. It involves an academic year in residence at Brandeis (September - May), followed by a three-month field placement and completion of a master's paper by December.

What does it give?

* Provides a solid grounding for participants in contemporary and developing theories on the causes of intercommunal conflicts, from the local to the global.
* Emphasizes the skills needed to design strategic interventions that prevent, mitigate, or resolve intercommunal conflicts and violence.
* Focuses on mainstreaming coexistence and conflict knowledge and skills within governments and security, international, and inter-governmental organizations.
* Includes a master's field project in an area of conflict, or with an organization involved in coexistence and conflict interventions.
* Teaches dialogue and mediation skills designed for work in intercommunal conflict situations.
* Introduces students to evaluation skills to help them to assess the success of conflict interventions.
* Helps students develop partnership skills in delivering coexistence work through democracy, security, legislative, mediative, human rights, political, equity, and development work.
* Offers a wide choice of electives, including language courses that are relevant to participants' career interests.

For further information please look at:

http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/Slifka/

or contact :

Masters Program in Coexistence and Conflict.
Brandeis University
PO Box 549110
Mailstop 086
Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110

Tel: 1-781-736-5001
Fax: 1-781-736-8561
masterscoex@brandeis.edu

Program Manager Position Open for The Coexistence Initiative at Brandeis

The Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence (http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/coexistence_initiative/index.html) at Brandeis University seeks a program manager to support and invigorate The Coexistence Initiative at Brandeis, an emerging international network of coexistence and conflict transformation advocates and practitioners. The network seeks to empower them to promote positive social change in their communities by creating opportunities for those advocates and practitioners to learn, grow, and act more effectively together.
The responsibilities include coordinating regional and international events that bring together and empower network members and others through workshops, seminars, and other gatherings; managing the Initiative's web site to increase the network's reach and effectiveness; managing the flow of events and information between staff, network participants, the Brandeis community, and the advisory board. Additional responsibilities include building and sustaining relationships with existing network partners, and identifying and connecting with potential network partners; assisting, with advisory board member input, in evaluating the effectiveness of activities, and adjusting strategic plan accordingly; serving as a logistical and information resource to network members coordinating the work of interns, work-study students, and consultants.
For information on past activities of The Coexistence Initiative (previously based in New York City), please see the web site at http://www.coexistence.net/. (The web site does not yet reflect the new home of the Initiative at Brandeis University.)
Qualifications include a B.A. degree and 3-5 years experience in project and/or event management, with a record of increasing responsibility. Candidates should have experience in coexistence, diversity, conflict transformation, bridge-building, cross-community, peacebuilding and/or cross-cultural work working with people of different cultural, national, and linguistic backgrounds. Candidates must be creative, energetic, and entrepreneurial, have experience operating or coordinating networks or coalitions, managing events have experience with financial management and possess good reporting skills; i.e., the ability to quickly and accurately synthesize spoken information into a written report.
Skills include the ability to use the web strategically, detail-orientation and initiative, ability to work individually and as part of a team, flexibility and ability to work under stress and the pressure of deadlines. Travel will be included and the ability to report to and work closely with the advisory board is necessary.
To apply for this position, and for more information about working at Brandeis University, please go to http://www.brandeis.edu/humanresources/currentjobs.html. Applications are due by December 14.

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