The event aims to use an interactive workshop formula in order to provoke reflection, discussion and exchange of experience among people interested in development cooperation including anthropology of development, global education, development and humanitarian foreign aid projects, raising awareness and advocacy campaigns etc.

Date: 10-11 June 2010       Place: Warsaw

Trainers:

Rosalind Duke: Masters in Development Studies, with research focusing on the discourse of development; lecturer in Development and Intercultural Education in Irish teacher education; specialist in adult education in the community and in education for social justice; cooperating with Comhlámh Action and Education for global justice (http://www.comhlamh.org/). Rosalind is also a professional mediator and a qualified life-coach: Artemis Insights (http://artemisinsights.com/index.html)

Agata Hummel: Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of A. Mickiewicz in Poznań; Agata Hummel is an anthropologist interested in analysis of development politics and Latin American culture specialist; represents anthropology of development critical perspective, doing PhD research on microcredits as a development programme.

Asma Abdalla: Member of "Amina - Muslim Women's Resource Centre (MWRC) www.mwrc.org.uk, based in Glasgow. MWRC is working with governmental and local institutions in order to elaborate a structure to facilitate Muslim women's access to public services and active participation in society. In addition to lobbying for Muslim Communities living in Scotland, MWRC is providing direct legal support, information and advisory to Muslim women residing in the UK, through training, phone helpline - "Muslim Women Helpline" and offers the possibility of a personal visit consultation. MWRC also has its own library collection for Islam Studies (TBC)


Main issues to be raised and introduced by trainers:

1.    Analyse the discourse of development (including HRBA, democratization, morality)
2.    Critically approach the discourse and the practice of development (search of the origins of development thinking and its adscription to the Euro-American culture.
3.    Analyse the practice of development
   -  discuss problems of development policy and its bureaucratic condition
   -  discuss problems of development projects functioning in the field
4.    Introduce and analyse main anthropological concepts that can be useful in development practice: ethnocentrism, otherness, cultural relativism, universalism, cultural knowledge, power relations, etc
5.    Analyse problems of Polish development cooperation, search for alternatives and propose changes
6.    Introduce such skills as mediation, respect, openness to different cultures
7.    Propose activism alternative to development aid: global education programs at schools, campaigns concerning fights with poverty aiming to raise awareness among general public, advocacy activities targeting decision makers.

Requirements:
Fluent English (the main part of workshop will be conducted by Rosalind Duke in English; some exercises during the workshop can be run in Polish if they are done only among the participants and do not require Rosalinds’ intervention)

Profile of participants:

The participant can be everyone interested in development cooperation giving preference for people already having some experience or education background in the field of development

All people interested in participation in the workshop are requested to fill in the  attached form and send it to Aneta.Moscicka@pah.org.pl before 2nd June 2010.

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