He is the Head of Peace Studies Department and currently serves as Commissioner for the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
Francis is UNESCO Chair of African Peace and Conflict Studies in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford.
Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University, said there was little alternative but to talk to the Taliban.
Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 32 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center.
He has facilitated the introduction, development and implementation of fifteen undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Peace and Conflict Studies, Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution at African universities in 10 countries, including the establishment of four specialist peace and conflict management centres.
It also facilitates the development of policy-relevant framework to mainstream and institutionalise peace and conflict studies at tertiary institutions.
The UNESCO Chair in Africa Peace and Conflict Studies works with partners on the continent to build a critical mass of expertise in this area.
The purpose of the UNESCO Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, education, training, capacity building, information and documentation in the field of African peace and conflict studies.
Chang Yong-seok, senior researcher at the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, suggested that the announcement was designed to remind the South Korean public that there is an ever-present danger from the North and to shore up support for the government's North Korean policy.
This 1-Day national consultation will validate a review paper and discuss policy recommendations developed by the Centre of Studies for Peace and Development (CEPAD), with the support of UNESCO Office in Jakarta.
Thanks to the Center of Studies for Peace and the Development, and with the support of the UNESCO Office in Jakarta, young women and men will be at the heart of attention in Timor-Leste on 26 February 2013, during a National Consultation in direct continuity with the special mission of the United Nations in this country, which has just ended.
Stevens graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982, then took a pause in his studies to join the Peace Corps, according to his State Department biography.
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This body grants medals for Peace, humanitarian achievement, and scholarly studies.
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Other partners and international agencies include: UNICEF, the Institute of Religious Studies (ISER) in Rio de Janeiro and Youth for Peace and Education (YPE), a Montreal-based interreligious organization, which trains educators for peace worldwide.
Some of the topics discussed in the meeting were conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies in the Arab region, in what way is education a major tool for peace building and the international perspective on the integration of conflict transformation into the academic curriculum.
The main objectives are to explore how universities could benefit from incorporating conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies and skills into their academic curriculum, and to raise awareness of the importance of practical peace building skills in education.
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