Peace and Reconciliation Unit

Context

The Indian Social Institute, Bangalore, launched yet another socio-educational program– Peace and Reconciliation– as part of the Jesuit Conference of South Asian Apostolic Preference towards the promotion of Peace and Solidarity in Justice. The unit was inaugurated on 2^nd October 2023, contending to address the socio-political conflicts wedged by unjust social structures, unequal sharing of economic and natural resources, and disproportionate political power relations– the multiple forms of violence and historical injustice. Responding proactively, our deliberate choice is to commit ourselves to the promotion of Peace and Reconciliation through Right Educational Mediation and Social Intervention.

Vision

Promotion of Peace and Reconciliation through Communicative Education and Empowerment Action.

Mission

Evolving and Engaging Dialogical, Inter- Relational, Educational Praxis towards Cultural Inclusivity enabled by Peace & Justice Perspectives. Training the youth as Peace Practitioners and initiate Peace Praxis in Civil Society.

Interventional Strategies

Restructuring Education as Transformative Pedagogical Intervention to Positive Peace, Conflict Analysis & Reconciliation Strategies.
Nurturing Peace Education Praxis by way of identifying Peace-Enabling Knowledge Perspectives and Reconciliation Practices enriched from Life-Narratives and Experiences.
Researching Conceptual Foundations and undertaking Field Study in view of Peace and Reconciliation.
Evolving contextually relevant educational curriculum on Peace as Justice with special focus on the development of the socially excluded.
Identifying, training and developing Transformational Peace Practitioners in schools and colleges and in rural/urban communities.
Establishing Research Centre with Documentation and Resource Facilitation on Peace and Conflict Studies.
Providing Interactive Peace Experience through campaigns and Lived-Experience.

Why Peace & Reconciliation Praxis

We understand that enabling Peace within and the social world is an ongoing process entailing community formation and participation.
We understand that existential threats to humanly shared future is due to International-national political-conflict configurations.
We understand that the Pan-Indian Academic system mainly focuses on ‘Employment- Competency’, which serves the profit-interests of the privileged- privatized class and hence deprived of promoting ‘Social-Competency,’ which alternatively urges the need to ‘re-conceptualize’ Education as Transformative Pedagogy for enabling peace loving humane community.

We draw our intellectual resources from:

Inter-Cultural Faith Traditions and Ecumenical- Scriptural Hermeneutics.
Asian Philosophical Heritage and Peace Enabling Ethnic Cultural Practices.
Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JSCA)
UN / UNESCO Guidelines.
Peace Activists and People’s Experiences.

A. Courses and Training Programs

Certificate Course on Peace and Reconciliation Studies at School Level.
Diploma Course on Peace and Conflict Management at Higher Educational Level.
Foundational/Optional Course on Peace, Reconciliation and Social Empowerment for Autonomous Colleges/Universities.
Online or offline Short Course on Peace Perspectives: Conceptual Foundations and Strategies for Personals in Religious Formation and NGOs, Teaching Professional and Human Resource Personals and Civil Servants.
National / International Seminar on Peace and Conflict Analysis.
Student Level Seminar/Workshops on Peace Studies.

B. Research Forum

We offer consultative services to Research undertakings focusing on Peace and Social Development.
We support publication of contextually relevant research papers on Peace and Reconciliation Studies.
We undertake Scientific Evaluation of social work projects, institutional status and missions- with a team of experts.
We undertake Field-Study in conflict- prompted regions.

C. Register for our Special Courses: (online/offline)

Annihilation of Caste: A Radical Paradigm for Peace and Social Inclusion.
Eco-Justice and Peace Foundations.
Peace Discourse: Structuralism to Post-Structuralism.
Phenomenological Readings of Religion & Society from Peace Perspectives.
Postmodern Sensibilities and Conflict Resolution.
Problematics to Peace: Epistemological Structures of Knowledge.
Critical Cultural Inclusivity: From Economic- Social Analysis to Cultural Analysis.
Social Teachings of the Church and Peace Promotion.
Hermeneutics of Peace and Reconciliation: Textual and Contextual.
Human Rights Discourse.

Note: Interested individuals/Academic/Religious Institutes NGOs may write to: peace.isib@gmail.com

Our Collaborative Guidance from:

Jesuit Conference South Asia (JCSA)
Indian Social Institute – New Delhi
Jesuit Provinces – Peace & Reconciliation Cells.
Loyola Institute of Peace and International Relations (LIPI)

Welcome to join us:

You can be a Registered Member of the Peace Education Partnership (PEP).
You can participate in any of our Peace Educational Programs (Certificate/ Diploma / Optional / Foundational Courses).
You may register individually/from your School/College/ Institute/Agency.
Sign up for a Free membership and avail our Communications.

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Contact us:

Email: peace.isib@gmail.com Phone: +91-80-40867092,40124630 Web: www.isibangalore.com Mobile: (0)8375063768

Dr. Denzil Fernandes SJ Head