EDUCATION The International Summer School in St.Petersburg
The main purpose of the International Summer School in St.Petersburg (ISS) is to provide a basis for value oriented peace studies: to meet the basic needs for regional security, well-being, freedom, identity and the needs of the environment.
The courses offered focus on various aspects of Russian culture, and deal with topics of broad international interest where the Russian example may serve as a basis for discussion.
The gathering of students from the FSU in the constructive creative atmosphere provides a stimulating, intellectual environment. Based on "Tolerance and Friendliness" among students and staff, the International Summer School in St-Petersburg helps to increase confidence-building for regional security, provides understanding and good will between states of the former Soviet Union.
The International Summer School in St.-Petersburg is open to post-graduates and young scholars from the former Soviet Union and other part of the world.The School of Conflict Prevention
Conflict Prevention, including preventive diplomacy is the most viable alternative to the costly option of crisis management and peace-keeping.
The practice of conflict prevention and preventive diplomacy has aggravated knowledge and fine techniques that are presently the collective experience of diplomats who have attempted the resolution of conflicts in the regions. The School of Conflict Prevention will access this knowledge and build around it a framework from which the art of preventive diplomacy will be taught to diplomats, federal and local government officials, military officers, NGOs, mass media, students and post-graduates and others involved in conflict prevention.
An International Winter School "The Baltic Sea Region: Conflict Prevention and Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means"
The Winter School is designed to build partnership with northwestern Russia and its regions, among them Karelia, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Kaliningrad, the Pskov oblast. This partnership between students and lecturers from the northwestern Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Nordic states aimed at building and strengthening civic and peace dialogue capacity.
This objective also presupposes a peaceful context as provided by peace education. The Winter School is based on mutual confidence, creativity and partners can contribute their experience of social solidarity, sophisticated cultures and dynamic peace action.