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Invitation
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
is the government agency given the task to plan and administer
Sweden’s bilateral cooperation programmes with developing
countries. The agency is also responsible for Sweden’s cooperation
with Europe and Central Asia. At present Sida is supporting
approximately 5,400 projects. The major part of the resources
is allocated to some 20 partner countries where more long-term
cooperation is implemented.
The aim is to provide effective and efficient development
assistance in a changing world. This requires flexible methods
based on a holistic and cooperative approach. Sida’s activities are
based on the assumption that the cooperating countries wish to
carry out changes and are willing to invest their own resources to
achieve these changes.
Sweden’s total budget for international development cooperation
is appropriated to MSEK 22,417 for 2005. Sida’s budget is
approximately MSEK 14,044.
Many international and regional organisations active in the areas of
peace and security have recently created special units for dealing
with aspects of armed conflict, conflict prevention, peacebuilding or
peace processes. Similar developments can be observed in governmental
agencies as well as in the organisations of civil society
around the world. In this rapid and dynamic process practitioners
and theoreticians have increasingly come to realise the importance
of a continous exchange of knowledge and experiences, to improve
understanding and performance. To approach this issue a special
programme has been created.
Thus, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala
University is inviting nominations for the Top Level Seminar on
Peace and Security (TOPS). The programme aims at a high-level exchange
of insights generated through academic research and those
drawn by practitioners from international, regional and governmental
organisations as well as from civil society organisations. Women are
particularly encouraged to apply.
Maria Norrfalk
Director General
Sida
Thomas Ohlson,
Program Director, Professor
of Peace and Conflict Research
Uppsala University
Peter Wallensteen
Dag Hammarskjöld Professor
of Peace and Conflict Research
Uppsala University
Objectives
The principal objective of this programme
is to provide a meeting
point for organisation-based practitioners
and academics in the field of
conflict resolution. Specifically, the
programme aims to:
– Convey an understanding of the
challenges facing regional and international
organisations working
with the resolution and management
of conflict, post-conflict assistance
and conflict prevention.
– Update participants on recent experiences
and findings in relevant
research, studies and evaluations.
– Offer the participants tools for
analysing conflict situations and
to give them an opportunity to
share such insights with other
professionals on the same level.
Contents
Against a background of conveying
a general understanding of conflict
analysis, resolution and prevention,
the programme focuses:
– The peaceful solution of intrastate
conflict; the interaction
between democracy, development
and conflict resolution, and the
role of international and regional
organisations and other third parties
in this context.
– Sanctions, multidimensional
peacekeeping and peace enforcement.
– Organisations as mediators and
negotiators.
Teaching
Lectures are given by scholars from
the Department of Peace and Conflict
Research and by invited specialists.
Lectures, seminars, and group
work cover a full day’s work of 40
hrs per week.
The seminar ends with a series
of problem-solving workshops with
executive level participants.
Participation
The programme admits 25 participants.
Twenty are selected by the
Department of Peace and Conflict
Research from the competitive application
procedure described in
this brochure. An additional five are
directly invited by the Department
of Peace and Conflict Research.
It is required that participants