University for Peace
Mandated by the United Nations, the University for Peace was established as a Treaty Organization in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica in December, 1980. It offers Masters Programmes in Environment and Development, Peace and Conflict Studies and International Law. It has the mission:
"to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations."
"to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace and with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations."
Costa Rica
Rotary International
I am grateful to Rotary International who awarded me a global grant in order to pursue this masters programme.
Rotary is a service organization that was founded by a businessman named Paul Harris in 1905. With 1.2 million members worldwide today, it's object is to encourage and foster:
Rotary is a service organization that was founded by a businessman named Paul Harris in 1905. With 1.2 million members worldwide today, it's object is to encourage and foster:
- "FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
- SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
- THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
- FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service."
Casa Xalteva
I completed two weeks of Spanish training in Nicaragua before I began my studies at UPeace. I chose to study at Casa Xalteva in Granada.
Founded in 1995, Casa Xalteva is a non-profit language school and educational shelter for under-priviledged local children and adolescents.
Founded in 1995, Casa Xalteva is a non-profit language school and educational shelter for under-priviledged local children and adolescents.