Message from Virginia Swain:

The Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Programme

To Implement the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence
for the Children of the World (2001-2010)

The Peoples of this Planet have a Sacred Right to Peace.--General Assembly Resolution 39/11, November 12, 1984

Patron: Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative, Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, United Nations

The Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Programme

The Institute for Global Leadership offers the first of three levels of Certificate Years in Reconciliation Leadership™ to educate both emerging and existing leaders from all disciplines and cultures committed to a sustainable, intercultural, just and multiethnic approach for community, institutional, national and global challenges. The purpose is to activate the best of our humanity and reconcile the leadership crises of communities, institutions, nations and global entities for the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) (www.global-leader.org). We welcome participants from all sectors to participate in the full programme or individual courses. Successful graduates of the three year training are eligible to be facilitators in a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service™. Participant leaders may use the term Reconciliation Leader™ after successful completion of the three-year training.

The learning community convened is for seasoned leaders who are searching for a new way to lead others through challenges as well as welcoming for emerging leaders. Reconciliation Leadership™ helps people tap into their internal strengths to better promote peaceful resolutions to conflict and provides broad applications to family feuds, community and national disputes and global challenges. Participant leaders are trained in methods useful to professional and international peacemakers as well as anyone interested in creating a just, sustainable, multiethnic and intercultural community, institution or global entity.
Reconciliation Leadership™ is a distinct vocation, requiring reflection time first for new knowledge of one's own values, gifts and talents as a foundation upon which to face one’s limitations. This leadership arises from one’s integrity, special calling, skillbuilding in learned behaviors called competencies, and a philosophy of life to be at peace in oneself for a post-competitive society. Participant leaders’ gifts, intuitive knowing and practical experience are integrated with learned skills and competencies. The link is introduced between personal, interpersonal, group/systemic and global leadership competencies to ensure respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes for greater ecological integrity, economic and social well being. As the participant leaders discover their own special calling and gifts as well as what her/his unique role is for the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010), he/she will be introduced to the competencies of Reconciliation Leadership™ and what human beings can accomplish in this time of great challenge.

2005 Courses in Year One Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate PRogram

Module 1: The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership™ (1) March 4-6 (New England—call for other dates in New England) and February 18-20, August 12-14, September 9-11, October 1-16, November 19-21, December 9-11, United Nations, New York or individually with Ms. Swain. Reconciliation Leadership™ is a distinct vocation, requiring reflection time first for new knowledge of one's own values, gifts and talents to apply to the International Decade. Instructor: Virginia Swain, Director, Institute for Global Leadership

Module 2: Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional and Global Change. April 18-22, 2005, United Nations. The Reconciliation Leader™ learns theoretical and practical skills to create peaceful, ethical, just, humane, culturally sensitive, and sustainable structures and frameworks. The course offers experiential learning as a way to integrate conceptual learning, engenders a cross-sectoral approach to intervening in crises, and elicits participants’ knowledge and wisdom in a final project. Instructors: Under Secretary-General A.K. Chowdhury (when available) and Virginia Swain.

Module 3: Work, Purpose, Place and Peace (March 11-13, 2005, Tiverton, RI) In understanding the work of a reconciler as a distinct vocation, it is important (to enable and encourage harmony and peace amongst those we seek to bring together from estrangement) that we ourselves comprehend at a profound level the distinct ways in which we are gifted as individuals. We must receive the full nature of our purpose through the ownership, appreciation and application of our core values, skills, talents and special calling. Instructors: Michael E. Collins and Barbara V. Wheeler

Module 4: The United Nations and the Harmonization of Nations: An Evolving Process Accelerated by the Tsunami Disaster? February 21-25 and August 15-19. The United Nations, New York. Article l.4 of the United Nations Charter calls for a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of the common ends of maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, and achieving international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character… A history of the harmonizing trends of the United Nations will be offered as well as how its strengths and weaknesses contribute and deter this body from its charter mandate in Article l.4. Whether or not the humanitarian effort to address the Tsunami disaster in Asia is accelerating the harmonization process will also be explored. Instructor: Virginia Swain (with guest speakers from the United Nations and civil society)

Module 5: Reconciliation of Polarities, May 20-22, Tiverton, RI. Interpersonal relationship skills will be learned through exercises that enable the participants to experience alternative methods of working with disparate views and belief systems leading to the development of a perspective which recognizes the essential value and inherent dignity of each human being. Instructors: Michael E. Collins and Barbara V. Wheeler

Module 6: Writing a personal mission statement for the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) June 10-12, Tiverton, RI. These experiential modules offer a process and framework for emerging and existing leaders to become aware of core gifts and talents, begin to trust one’s inner voice, confirm vocational calling, learn to access one’s deepest hopes and visions and form a one-sentence mission statement. Mentor: Virginia Swain (and individual work with Ms. Swain)

Module 7: Cross Cultural and Multiethnic Aspects of Reconciliation Leadership™, July 22-24, United Nations, New York. . This module gives a broad introduction to culture and ethnicity. Respect of difference goes beyond gender, race and ethnicity from the perspective of Reconciliation Leadership™ to include our common humanity. Instructor: Virginia Swain

Module 8: Sustainability Aspects of Reconciliation Leadership™ August 5-7.
This module will offer participants an opportunity to establish a relationship with the earth as a beginning of a new depth of connection to one another. Instructor: Virginia Swain

Module 9: Anger and Conflict Management September 23-25. Tools and techniques of handling one’s own and another’s anger as a healthy response to conflict are offered in a safe environment. Instructors: Michael E. Collins, Virginia Swain and Barbara V. Wheeler.

Module 10: Re-visioning the Relationship of Man and Woman, Tiverton, RI. October 28-30. Instructors: Michael E.Collins and Barbara V. Wheeler.

Module 11: The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership™ II. November 11-13, United Nations. A case study methodology will be used to introduce participants to the principles and practice of Reconciliation Leadership™ as applied to a community, institutional, national and a global challenge. Instructor: Virginia Swain

Module 12: Integration Module. December 3-5. The final module will bring an integrative approach to conclude the first Certificate Year. Instructors: Michael E. Collins, Virginia Swain and Barbara V. Wheeler.

Mentoring Module (scheduled as needed throughout the program) 10 hours. This module offers individual processing to integrate the knowledge into practice throughout the programme year. Mentor: Virginia Swain.

The Basic Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Faculty
• Mr. Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Under Secretary-General and High Representative, Least Developed Countries, Small Island States and Landlocked Countries. Ambassador Chowdhury is the initiator at the United Nations of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). Mr. Chowdhury is also the Patron of the Programme.
• Michael E. Collins, MA, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Community Resource and Renewal Center, Tiverton, RI
• Virginia Swain, MA, CPHC, Founder and Director, The Institute for Global Leadership and President, The Center for Global Community and World Law. Founder of Reconciliation Leadership™ and the Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service™
• Barbara V. Wheeler, RN, MA, CPHC, Founder and Co-Director, Community Resource and Renewal Center, Tiverton, RI,

To learn more, click on Consultation and Training for Leaders Committed to a Just, Sustainable, Intercultural and Multiethnic Peace. To apply to the Certificate Program and for tuition information, call Virginia Swain, Director, The Institute for Global Leadership, Box 20044, Worcester, MA 01602 Tel: 508-753-4172, ext 3 Mobile: 508-245-6843; vswain@global-leader.org; www.global-leader.org.

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