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前扶輪和平獎學生展開他們自己的和平研究計劃

Former Rotary Peace Fellows start their own peace studies programs

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by Susie Ma

國際扶輪新聞—2011 年5 月13 日

Rotary International News -- 13 May 2011

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Prajash Tewari這一位前扶輪和平獎學生正開發一門課程來幫助新德里的公務員預防和解決衝突. 圖片提供者是Prakash Tewari.

Prakash Tewari, a former Rotary Peace Fellow, is developing a course to help New Delhi’s civil servants prevent and resolve conflicts. Photo courtesy of Prakash Tewari

許多前扶輪和平獎學生在世界各地工作,透過教育在他們的社區�堭幫囥M平。其中有一些正在創建自己的方案,旨在於實現意義深遠的目標。在亞洲的這些人是Maria Saifuddin Effendi, Jianrong Chen, and Prakash Tewari.

Many former Rotary Peace Fellows are at work around the world, promoting peace in their communities through education. Some are creating their own programs, aimed at achieving far-reaching goals. Among those fellows in Asia are Maria Saifuddin Effendi, Jianrong Chen, and Prakash Tewari.

 

信念的行動Acting on convictions

瑪麗亞 Saifuddin埃芬迪在伊斯蘭堡國防大學的和平與衝突研究系擔任助理教授。儘管遭到反對,2009年她和她的同事首次在國內建立該學系。

Maria Saifuddin Effendi is assistant professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at National Defence University in Islamabad, Pakistan. She and some of her colleagues established the department in 2009, the first of its kind in the country, in spite of opposition. 

一位在2007~2009年英國布拉德福德大學的和平獎學生埃芬迪說,“有學者批評與抵制去關閉它因認為這個學系是無用”。 “但我們挺有尊嚴的生存下來,這是一個令人非常高興與滿足的看見這個學系在我的國家中成長。”

 “There was criticism and resistance from [academics] to close down the department,” who considered it “useless,” says Effendi, a 2007-09 peace fellow at the University of Bradford in England. “But we have survived with dignity. It’s a great pleasure and satisfaction seeing [the department] grow in my country.”

埃芬迪所寫的一本書—領會到喀什米爾的完美是以當她是一位和平獎學生時所寫的碩士論文為基礎。書中探討了南亞地區已準備就續以談話與調解存在已久的衝突。

Effendi’s book, Understanding Ripeness in Kashmir, is based on the master’s dissertation she wrote as a peace fellow. The book explores the South Asian region’s readiness for dialogue and peacemaking to address longstanding conflict.

埃芬迪也參與衝突預防/解決座談會與研討會的發起,經由各大學和非政府組織如由她的朋友和前和平獎學生Cameron Chisholm在華盛頓特區成立的國際和平與安全學院。這些事件,她說,“鼓勵我做和平的工作與維護巴基斯坦的和平。”

Effendi also participates in conflict prevention/resolution symposiums and workshops sponsored by universities and nongovernmental organizations like the International Peace and Security Institute in Washington, D.C., founded by friend and former peace fellow Cameron Chisholm. These events, she says, “encourage me to work in the field of peace and for peace in Pakistan.”

 

衝突的處理Dealing with conflict

因為人民的多樣性,陳建榮相信中國有著特殊的和平研究的需要。隨著人口的13億和56個不同的民族,各族衝突是常見的。陳建榮是一位中國廣州暨南大學國際關係系的講師,想使中國年輕一代有能力去處理衝突。

Jianrong Chen believes that China has a special need for peace studies because of the diversity of its people. With a population of 1.3 billion and 56 different ethnic groups, interethnic conflict is common. Chen, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, wanted to equip the younger generation of Chinese with tools for dealing with conflict.

“過去,我們強調和諧,我們幾乎忘了我們有衝突”他說。 “從某種程度上說,如果我們不能看待衝突是應該的,如何才能有和平?”

 “In the past, we stressed harmony and we almost forgot that we have conflict,” he says. “If we cannot look at conflict in a way that it should be, how can we have peace?”

在泰國曼谷朱拉隆功大學的扶輪和平中心完成專業發展計劃後,陳開始在暨南大學教導和平與衝突的入門課程。他希望在大學裡吸收其他大學生在衝突問題上經營去並建立一個和平的教學團隊。他還計劃在七月裡,在他的大學的中非關係上舉行一個和平研討會。

After completing the professional development program at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Chen began teaching an introduction to peace and conflict course at Jinan University. He is hoping to recruit other academics working on conflict issues at the university to create a peace teaching team. He also plans to hold a peace workshop at his university on China-Africa relations in July.

“我現在做的僅僅只是在我夢裡的,這個漫長旅程中的最開端而已,  陳建榮表示。

“What I am doing now is just the very beginning of this long-term journey in my dream,” Chen says.

 

社區談話Community dialogue

普拉卡什Tewari在印度國防部工作和是一位前陸軍上校。在朱拉隆功大學參加扶輪和平中心後,他接到了他的輔導社新德里扶輪社社長的要求,以他的和平獎學生經驗去成立一個和平研究課程。

Prakash Tewari works in the defense ministry in India and is a former army colonel. After attending the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University, he received a request from the president of his sponsor club, the Rotary Club of New Delhi, to create a peace studies course based on his peace fellow experience.

Tewari說這個課程預計於九月將在新德里一所大學開始,並將提供給城市的大量的公務員有機會接受預防和解決衝突的培訓。他希望該課程將不同的群組結合一起做對話技巧的訓練 - 政府工作人員,活動團體和民間社會團體。”

Tewari says the course, projected to start at a university in New Delhi in September, will offer the city’s large number of civil servants an opportunity to receive training in conflict prevention and resolution. He hopes the course will “get different sparring groups together to work on dialogue skills -- government workers, activist groups, and civil society groups.”