The workshop provides a challenging, transformational experience to a diverse cross section of participants from education, politics and non-governmental organisations from around the world. The workshop will reflect on the relationship between education and conflict, learning from conflict and post-conflict contexts in which we live and work, demonstrate how we live out the UWC mission in our Colleges, and imagine and design strategies for education that can respond to humanity’s most urgent issue.
Who should attend the inaugural workshop?
Teachers - to work with colleagues from around the world and design strategies for curricula development, andragogy and pedagogy that can respond to conflict and post-conflict contexts
Heads - to take the lead on planning, design and implementation of strategies for curricula development, andragogy and pedagogy that can change the way education in conflict and post-conflict contexts happens
Government agencies and NGOs - to work with educators, to understand the potential of education as a driver of positive change and to design and implement strategies that can have a serious and positive long-term impact on conflict and post-conflict societies.
For more information and to register your interest in attending, please email shamayim@plommerwatson.com
Workshop style
The workshop has been designed to be intensive and participatory, with the maximum opportunity for dialogue, debate, experiential learning, listening and analysis designed to provide delegates with concrete ideas to take back into policy and planning in their organisations.
There will be three sessions on each day consisting of:
1. Theory (An exploration of the relationship between education and conflict)
2. Immersion (Experiential learning)
3. Spotlight (Testimony from invited speakers)
The workshop will be built around three themes:
1. Coming to terms with the past
2. Engaging with the present
3. Preparing for the future
The Peace Challenge – UWC Mostar – Leading The Way
The war of 1992-1995 led to the fragmentation of Yugoslavia into independent republics. Bosnia and Herzegovina in particular suffered horrifying devastation: mass destruction, more than 100,000 people killed (the majority of them civilian) and roughly 50% of the population displaced. Demographic structures of the country changed and many previously culturally mixed cities became dominated by one of the three main national groups.
The birth of a United World College in 2006 in a renovated building on the former frontline, which the College shares with a local gymnasium, created a new dimension both for the UWC movement and for international education as a whole. The UWC Mostar story is a compelling one, grounded in profound moral purpose.
“International education will remain truly relevant in the globalized world of the 21st century only if it manages to provide answers to the acute problems and questions of our time. The UWC and IB work in Bosnia has been an important opening in that direction and offers many lessons that should be taken into account.” Pilvi Torsti, Co-founder and Chair of the Foundation, UWC Mostar.
“UWC Mostar seems to me to be at the front line of the UWC movement and should be recognised and supported as such”. Andrew Maclehose, UWC Atlantic & Adriatic Colleges, March 2014
Why you should attend?
● You can enable your organisation to be a change agent of society; a leader in its approach to Education in conflict and post conflict contexts
● You will develop a strategic and practical approach to peace and conflict resolution in education
● You and your students will become thought leaders in Education in conflict and post conflict contexts locally, regionally and globally
● You will be equipped to lead your institution in developing new strategies for responding to the challenge of international mindedness, co-existence and inter-dependence into the curricula and the governance of schools
● You will be part of a unique network of thought leaders in Education in conflict and post conflict contexts – part of an “Active Alumni”, an inaugural cohort of workshop graduates who contribute to the development of the programme as it extends its global reach over the coming years.
Looking ahead: the workshop legacy
A key workshop objective is to help build a cohort of alumni who go on to have a profound impact on the world, through the organisations they serve, and that this initiative helps give them the skills and capability necessary to have that kind of impact.
We hope and expect that the alumni from this inaugural workshop will play leading roles in its development and implementation.For more information and to register your interest in attending, please email shamayim@plommerwatson.com