Small groups in every society are building a world organized around principles of justice, equity, human dignity, right relationship with our planet, and peace. The work looks different in each context and we do not always use the same language to describe it. The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) is here to help you gain the skills necessary to change your community and the world.
The following courses can be taken for professional development or academic credit. Visit our website (click here) for more information or click the course title below for more information on each course.
Formation for Peacebuilding Practice: Explore various competencies needed by those who work for peace and social justice. Strengthen abilities to listen and communicate, create and maintain healthy boundaries, recognize and promote diversity, lead from your vision and values, and engage people in dialogue and decision-making.
Restorative Justice: Principles, Theories & Applications: Explore a justice framework that focuses on healing, accountability, and community, not blame, punishment, and isolation. Identify the harms, needs, roles, and responsibilities of offenders, victims, communities, and the justice system after acts of crime or violence.
Forgiveness & Reconciliation: Explore concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation from multidisciplinary perspectives and understand how they can generate durable solutions and healing at all levels of conflict from the interpersonal to the international.
Trustbuilding: Toward Relational Justice and Sustainable Change: Learn to build healthy relationships and safe communities through the creation of trust. Understand the importance of practicing integrity and honoring the identity and dignity of others as well as the historical and socio-cultural contexts that affect the ability to build trust between individuals and groups.
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