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April 5, 2010
Global College Spring & Summer Institutes 2010
Terrorism & Peaceful Transformation in the Muslim Context
May 25-28, 2010
Guest Professor: Dr. Amr Abdalla, Vice Rector,
UN Affiliated University for Peace, Costa Rica
Schedule:
Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday from 6 - 8:30 p.m.
HRGS-2650 & HRGS-3650
This course will focus on providing students with comprehensive views of the causes and discourses of terrorism within the Muslim context, and their implications to world peace. The course will provide balanced perspectives on political, cultural, social and religious issues. Finally the course will explore approaches to address those issues, with an emphasis on multilateral approaches, and ones that may lead to the peaceful transformation of the terrorism trend in the Muslim world. The course will be taught by Professor Amr Abdalla, the Vice Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica, who is a former prosecuting attorney from Egypt with extensive expertise and experience on Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups.
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Current students can register via WebAdvisor. For more information contact global.college@uwinnipeg.ca
Migration and Development in the Philippines, 1960-2010
August 3-13, 2010
Guest Professor: Anthony Tujan Jr. ,
Institute for Political Economy, the Philippines
MULT-1100 & MULT-2100
This course on Migration and Development in the Philippines will examine how Philippine labour migration came to be institutionalized as the country's primary economic development strategy. As a joint effort with Filipino-Manitoban members of Aksyon Ng Ating Kabataan (ANAK) Inc. - ANAK - in acknowledgment of the 50 years of immigration to Manitoba from the Philippines, this course is being hosted by the Global College Institute for Human Rights and Global Studies, directed by Prof. Kim Sibanda, with guest instructor Antonio Tujan Jr., from the Institute for Political Economy in the Philippines, who will teach this course as an exploration of the political, economic, and social impact of labour migration in the Philippines especially in terms of its challenges to human rights and development in the past fifty years.
* Press Release
* Filipino Community Celebrates 50 Years of Being in Manitoba - MB Legislature (Hansard)
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Current students can register via WebAdvisor. For more information contact global.college@uwinnipeg.ca
Posted by jmarion at April 5, 2010 2:01 PM
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