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  • Dove, Hand, Trust, God, Pray, Prayer, Peace, Soul

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    Dear Students, Welcome to Peacebuilding and Peace education unit

    Aim

    This unit explains theories and characteristics of peace education. It introduces students to the understanding of key concepts of peace and conflict, key areas of peace education, and conflict analysis (conflict mapping and tracking model). It also discusses approaches to peace building, and describes local mechanisms for peace building (with emphasis on peace education and welfare programs contributing to peace promotion in the Rwandan context). It will be covered in three weeks.

    Intended learning outcomes

    Upon the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

    1. Explain key concepts of peace and conflict, including conflict analysis and mapping
    2. Describe major approaches and theories to peace education
    3. Analyze mechanisms for peace building at the local, international levels and new trends

     Teaching and learning activities/resources

    You are required to participate actively in different activities designed to allow you achieving the expectations of this unit. the main learning activities will be forum discussions, H5H assignments, turnitin assignments and quizzes where necessary.

    Note that you should complete each designed activity prior to access the next; if the given activity is not completed, the access to the next one will be restricted.

    • Session 1: Understanding conflict, and conflict resolution Lesson
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      This session introduces you to conflict and conflict resolution studies . It will offers you an opportunity to work with conflict analysis, conflict mapping and conflict resolution. Learning activities (E-tivities) for this session, and supporting resources for this session are displayed below in different formats.

    • E-tivity4.1a: Introduction to Conflict and Conflict resolution Forum
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      The purpose of this E-tivity:
      This E-tivity aims to help you contextualize the concept of conflict and evaluate your experience in conflict resolution. This is the important step required to understand the conflict in practical views prior to the analysis and understanding of the literatures about conflict resolution.
      Description of the activity:
      The conflict happen in human being any time in life. If I can say all creature in this world live in conflict every day. Finding food and other basic for suverving Purchasing degrees, developing projects, travelling for distance, searching job,....So for you, how can you describe conflict?

      • What is conflict to you?
      • What does it mean if you say that people are in conflict?
      • Is a conflict something bad or negative? I want to ask if conflict affect people in negative way such as causing stress and depression, leading to any kind of hurt and violence, or other serious emotional and physical disorders or it can be some thing generous to people?
      • Can people involved in big conflicts cases live together in peace? If yes why do think so? If not why do think so?
      • Then, try to reflect to an experience which you have faced a conflict with your colleagues, friends or family member and the conflict affected your emotions much worse. Try to identify what caused the conflict at the time, some behavior in the conflict that affected your emotional. Try to note down your feeling you have had at that time, and then try to explain how you resolved that conflict. Which approach or strategy you used? Was any anybody outside involved? If so which role played by that person in the conflict?
      • What resulted from that conflict? Are you still having strong relationship or your relationship have been destroyed?
      • Why do you think has generated that results? The conflict itself or personal emotions and behavior of one of you or of both?

      Try to evaluate yourself when you were dealing with that conflict and document your SWOT as exhibited in that conflict resolution;

      • What were the Strengths you have exhibited?
      • What were the Weaknesses you have exhibited?
      • What were the Opportunities you identified while managing that conflict?
      • What were the threats you faced while managing that conflict?

      After answering those questions, you are requested to submit your file in this forum for peer review; Your colleagues in group will see your post and comment on it.
      You are requested also to comment on each post of your colleagues in group and the comments to your colleagues should address the positive points, the negative points and recommendations for improvements
      You will not be allowed to access the next activities and resources if you do not complete this E-tivity and to complete it you are requested to post your file and comment to each post of your colleagues and the comments should follow the criteria given

    • E-tivity 4.1b; Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution Assignment

      The aim of this activity is to assess your abilities to:

      • Define conflict in comprehensive way
      • Analyze any kind of Conflict (conflict mapping and tracking model)
      • Apply the strategies to management any kind of conflict

      Conflict Scenario:
      During community outreach activity in village one family one community member requested to assist in resolution of a conflict in neighborhood family. The man takes the speech and share to the whole community that the family conflict to the high level of violence almost every day. When man of the family given a speech to explain the reason of conflict, he verbalized that since 2 year ago the family was tested HIV positive and since the time the wife refused sexual intercourse accusing him to cheat on her and bring HIV infections in the family. When the wife requested to explain about the problem said that, she have been told that the husband cheated on her many times with different partners the reason she refused to continue sexual intercourse with him. She continues explaining that since the time the husband hit her and the children every day and refused provide the requirements for family basic needs. Neighbors complain that they bored with every day conflict and that two children have left that family because of that conflict.
      Some members of the community ask the flow to talk about that conflict and all of them take the side and aggressive behaviors and words to accuse the opposite party. You are requested to assist the family to resolve this conflict.

      1. Analyze this conflict and use your own diagram to map this conflict (In this map indicate causes, factors, parties involved in this conflict and their respective roles and effects of this conflict).
      2. Explain the steps you can follow to resolve the given conflict in scenario above
      3. Describe the principles you may apply to resolve this conflict
      4. Explain the approach you think would be effective in resolution of this conflict and explain why it will be effective compared to the other approach in place.
      5. Outline some indicators you would observe to ensure that conflict is being resolved effectively.

      Before attempting this quiz read carefully the following resources, the will guide you in answering the questions:

      1.

      2. Conflict resolution, “crucial conversations,” and other higher stakes communication is necessary to study in organizations

      3. Recognizing and resolve short- and long-term conflicts among group members and among groups 

      4. Causes and Outcomes of Conflict

      5. Conflict and Interpersonal Communication

      6.

      7. Steps for conflict management

      8.

      9. Approaches/Strategies for conflict management

      10. Approaches/Strategies for conflict management 

      Notice: Note that this activity requires you to take at least 25 hours to complete it.

    • Session 2: Understand peace education and peacebuilding Lesson
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      This session introduces to you the approaches and theories that underpin peace education and peacebuilding. It helps you to reflect on peace education, its aims, goals and approaches, and the status of peacebuilding debates. 

      Dear students in this session you will be engaged in three (3) main activity which include forum discussion, Turnitin based assignment and Quiz. The supporting resources will be indicated in each activity.

      But before being engaged in those activity, Kindly explore; 

      Kazeem Oyedele LAMIDI (2019); Peace Building: Conceptual, Trajectory and Imperative Analyses in the Third World Countries"

      Read on topic 1. CONCEPTUAL ISSUES ON PEACE BUILDING on page 54. it will help you to understand the concept of peace building in comprehensive way.

    • Comprehensive definition of Peace building File PDF
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      This is rearch article by Kazeem Oyedele LAMIDI (2019) on "Peace Building: Conceptual, Trajectory and Imperative Analyses in the Third World Countries"

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    • E-tivity 4.2a: Understand peacebuilding arising from conflict Forum

      This activity is designed to help to analyze and discuss the approaches used in Peace building process” From conflict to Peace”. 

      You are requested to develop an essay paper and post it to this forum for discussion.
      The theme of this discussion says that: “The Conflict is not something bad and it is necessity in society to trigger the change for development. Any kind of conflict in community can be transformed into peaceful construct that that serve as capacity building for such community”.
      For this essay, try to introduce the theme and state clearly your position on the theme with main idea supporting your position.
      In the Body paragraphs of essay;

      • Write clearly your topic sentences and supporting ideas in details
      • Provide examples supporting your ideas using Rwandan context from Genocide against Tutsi in 1994 up to now and provide references of those provided examples.

      In the Conclusion;

      • Summarize the main ideas discussed in the essay development
      • Provide your opinion on your new lessons or ideas obtained from this assignment

      Instructions:

      • This essay is written in Times New Romans, size: 12, Line spacing: 1.5 and the Size of paper: 3-5 pages cover page not inclusive
      • Post your essay for group discussion
      • After posting your essay, you are requested to comment to three works of your colleagues by identifying the positive points, weaknesses that need the improvements and also by suggesting the way of improving. For suggestions you can consider to orient your colleagues by references.
      • This work will be graded on 20 points. However, the quality and the number of replies to your colleagues' works will be consider to decide whether your work is qualified for grading.

      To respond to this theme you are advised to consult but not limited; The Catholic Relief Services (2018); Peacebuilding Fundamentals; Participant’s manual; Unit 3 Building Peace and 4: Peacebuilding Design, and Measuring Progress, Pp 43-109 

    • E-tivity 4.2b: Mechanisms to promote Peacebuilding Turnitin Assignment 2

      This activity will help you to analyze and Comment on the available Local mechanisms for peace building (with emphasis on peace education and welfare programmes contributing to peace promotion in the Rwandan context).

      As you know our country Rwanda has faced a cascade of severe Violence and major conflict. Among those we may highlight the Genocide against Tutsi of 1994 where more than 1 million people killed by their neighbors and friends and others left the country. This has put the Rwanda into a big burden of reconstruction of state and its institutions as a Nation as well as re-building a peace. It is now 21 year later. Different mechanisms have been put in place and now we are facing a big improvement and we are now in Peaceful country. So, reflect of those different mechanisms you identified as effective in reconstruction of peace in Rwanda after the Genocide against Tutsi of 1994 and make Comments on the mechanisms those put in place by Rwandan government to fight the consequences of Genocide against Tutsi of 1994 in the framework of reconstruction and Re-build the peace.
      Then, refer to five principles established by African Union in 26 in the African Union Policy on Post Conflict reconstruction and development and explain how those mechanisms put in place by Rwandan Government ensure the implementation that policy and use the provided indicators by the said policy to evaluate the current status of Rwanda as the achievement of Peace reconstruction and development after the Genocide of Tutsi crisis.
      Instructions:
      This is five pages essay reflective Paper, Times new Romans, front size 12, line spacing 1.5, 3-5 pages
      Resources:

      • African Union, Policy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD), adopted in Banjul, the Gambia 2006 available on https://www.peaceau.org/uploads/pcrd-policy-framwowork-eng.pdf
      • The Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 2003 revised in 2015 available on www.parliament.gov.rw
      • Training materials on shared values and taboos (the do’s & don’ts) available on www.nic.gov.rw
    • E-tivity 4.3.1,2,3: Summative Quiz of Unit 4

      This quiz aims at evaluating the achievement of Unit 4 Intended Learning Outcomes.

      It will be 20 questions Multiple choice questions with only one correct answer and it will be graded on 20 arks.

      Dear students kindly prepare your self to attempt this quiz as only one Attempt will be allowed and the attempt will take 45 minutes maximum.

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