http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/peace/new/new.htmPeace Studies at Bradford chosen as Rotary Centre for International Studies
in Peace and Conflict Resolution
This autumn has seen the establishment of the Rotary International Studies
Centre in Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Department as we welcome 12
postgraduate students to Bradford from eight countries. The Rotary World
Peace Scholars will spend two years in the Department, taking an MA in their
first year and proceeding to an MPhil. They are from Argentina, Canada,
Iceland, Japan, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and the United States, many of
them with extensive experience of working in areas in conflict.
The Centre at Bradford is one of seven that have been established by the
Rotary Foundation at universities in Japan, Australia, Argentina, France the
UK and the USA. The initial scheme is for six years but the hope is that the
whole programme will become permanent and might eventually include new
centres in regions such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and
Africa. In all, seventy students each year are being selected from hundreds
of candidates world-wide, with this year's group including scholars from 35
countries.
Rotary's hope is that the programme will add substantially to the number of
people trained in conflict resolution, who may then go on to work for the
UN? NGOs and governments, providing both expertise and experience in areas
in conflict
The Department of Peace Studies will subsequently, each year, enrol
approximately 20 international postgraduate students. The students will take
one of the Department's 3 postgraduate courses. Also selected to host Rotary
Centres in International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution are
following universities: Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
University of Queensland, Brasbane, Australia; Institut d'Etudes Politiques
de Paris, Paris, France; International Christian Univesity, Mitaka, Tokyo,
Japan; University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, United States of America
(USA); and, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, USA.
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