This online training course explains how to use email and the Internet as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organisational activities such as organising members and networks, outreach work and advocacy. Although the training course has been developed for an American audience, the tools and tips given can also be applied in other contexts. The training course outlines the different ways information dissemination through the internet can be used for effective advocacy. A short introd more...
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This course is an upper division course that examines intractable conflicts and ways in which these conflicts can be transformed to bring about stable peace. Fundamental concepts of both conflict studies and peace studies will be examined including peace, justice, power, violence and nonviolence, peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. All of the readings will be applied to a real world conflict in a course-long case study of the student’s choosing. The course also introduces students to more...
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This is an introductory course which is designed to teach students the basics about conflict, values, and how the two interact in society. Students will learn about the causes of conflict, conflict dynamics, and ways in which people (both disputants and third parties) can deal with conflicts to make them either destructive or constructive.
Students will engage in a variety of activities—reading, reflecting, discussing, doing exercises and simulations-- to gain both 'book knowledge' and 'han more...
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This is a college-level course built on the Beyond Intractability website. The course focuses primarily on long-lasting, difficult-to-resolve conflicts, but it also has a lot of general conflict resolution material. The Course is theoretical and practical.
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Repository with online handbooks and audio-visual materials on women's ICT-based enterprises. The handbooks provide advocacy, guidance and training materials on the benefits and risks of women's ICT enterprises in developing countries; including video case studies; enterprise creation and improvement advice; and analysis and advice tools.
These are products of the DFID-funded 'Women's ICT-Based Enterprise for Development' project, coordinated by the Centre for Development Informatics at the Uni more...
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The Informatics Clubs are an initiative of the Medellin Digital program, developed in partnership with COMFAMA and the EPM Foundation in Medellin, Colombia. The strategy aims at developing the use of the ICT in the public schools of the city, through small groups of students, gathered in a “Club”.
The young participants are really happy of the program, as they show on the online forum of the Informatics Club webpage. They are proud to be part of the program, and happy to make new friends, more...
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During 2 weeks, the Medellin Digital program trained 82 people from 39 different small businesses on how to use the following tools: Sugar CRM and the Google Adwords. The “students” needed to have a website. Medellin Digital trained them on how to use the new tools during 8 hours, including theory and practice. Each participant was given 150,000 pesos (US$ 80) to be inverted in online marketing during one month.Through these activities, Medellin Digital aims at promoting the use of ICT for e more...
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