Registration for the General Course (GC) “Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation” is now open
Registration for the General Course (GC) “Peace and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation” is now open. The initiative of the University of Padua to activate the General Course is part of the activities promoted and supported by the Network of Italian Universities for Peace (RUniPace) created at the initiative of the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI).
The GC, which is still unique in the Italian university landscape, is an Italian-taught, cross-curricular course, open to students from all undergraduate and master's degree programs at the University. It takes the form of a 6 CFU (45 hours) free-choice exam. One can register by going to the Course Moodle platform.
Within the framework of the University of Padua's Third Mission activities, the GC is also offered as a “single course” to all people interested in their own cultural upgrading and integration of professional skills regardless of their educational qualification.
The GC will be held in-person, during March-May 2025. Classes will take place in Lecture Hall "Aula L" of Palazzo Bo usually on Friday afternoons from 2:30 to 6:30 pm. The course will be held in Italian.
The class schedule will be announced at the beginning of February. Attendance at GC is mandatory for 75% of the scheduled hours.
The GC, policy and action oriented, is developed around the following thematic areas:
- Peace, nonviolence, disarmament;
- Understanding and analyzing conflict;
- Peace intervention and human security;
- Peace and human rights education;
- Sports and peace: the Olympic truce.
The lectures, in seminar and dialogue format, will be given by professors belonging to different departments of the University of Padua and RUniPace Universities. Particularly significant will be the participation of experts and witnesses from civil society organizations and local bodies engaged in peace-building processes “from the neighborhood to the UN.”
Coordination of the training will be provided by Prof. Marco Mascia, Unesco Chair “Human Rights, Democracy and Peace”.