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Applied Conflict Transformation Studies - ACTS

ACTS is a world-wide collaborative initiative which is developing innovative MA courses in Conflict Transformation Studies in regions affected by intractable conflicts.

ACTS is for people actively working on critical social issues, including peacebuilding, conflict transformation, reconciliation, rights, development, the environment.

ACTS has been developed to enable participants, and through them their organisations and communities, to:
- learn from the work that they are already involved in,
- develop and articulate the experience that they have from working in the fields of peace, human rights, democracy and justice,
- enable individuals and organisations to be more effective and sustained in their work,
- provide an environment where the voices of experienced practitioners can feed into global discourses on key issues.

The ACTS course is different

Each course is based within a regional centre.
This means that each learning group is composed of
participants from within that particular region, and the course
adapts to take into account the context and needs of the participants.

Each course is taken part-time over two years.
This means that participants can work and study at the same time.

The course focuses on the actual work of the practitioner.
Participants use action research methodology throughout
the course to learn from, explore and create new theory based on the work they are involved in.

The ACTS programme is currently on offer in the Balkans and Middle East, and in South East Asia, and is under development in Eastern Africa and Western Europe.

Centre	Start date for next course
ACTS Balkans and Middle East	October 2008
ACTS Asia	November 2007
ACTS Africa	November 2007 (provisional)
ACTS Western Europe	Autumn 2007 (provisional)