UB and Al-Quds University create the first on-line education program in nonviolent conflict resolution
The University of Barcelona and Al-Quds University, together with UB Solidarity Foundation and the NGO NOVACT, supported by the Palestinian grassroots organization Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, have created the first on-line education program in nonviolent conflict resolution: International Law and Nonviolent Popular Struggle, Organising for Social Change. Its setting up coincided with the Human Rights Day celebrations and the events organised to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. The education program, devoted to human rights defence, also pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, one of the most charismatic defenders of Human Rights. UB held a special relationship with him as his wife, Graça Machel, received an honorary doctorate from the University in 2008.
The University of Barcelona and Al-Quds University, together with UB Solidarity Foundation and the NGO NOVACT, supported by the Palestinian grassroots organization Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, have created the first on-line education program in nonviolent conflict resolution: International Law and Nonviolent Popular Struggle, Organising for Social Change. Its setting up coincided with the Human Rights Day celebrations and the events organised to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela. The education program, devoted to human rights defence, also pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, one of the most charismatic defenders of Human Rights. UB held a special relationship with him as his wife, Graça Machel, received an honorary doctorate from the University in 2008.
The university extension course (11 credits ECTS) takes place from 10 February to 31 May 2014. It will be taught by leading scholars and practitioners of strategic nonviolent action and authorities of International Law, coordinated by David Bondia, professor from the Department of International Public Law of the UB and member of the Board of Trustees of UB Solidarity Foundation.
This program is possible thanks to the agreement signed in May between UB and Al-Quds University, within the 1st Arab-Euro Conference on Higher Education (AECHE).