The May 18 Foundation has announced a call for civil society activists around the world to participate in the May 18 Academy 2012 which is an education/training program on Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Movements.
The aim of the May 18 Academy is to introduce participants to Korean history and a variety of democratic movements in Korea including the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in 1980, through both theoretical and practical experiences. Participants in the Academy engage with Korean modern history of human rights and democracy through a 3 week program of guided fieldtrips to places of significance in Korean modern history (such as Panmujeom in the de-militarized zone (DMZ)), visits with Korean organizations, as well as expert lectures and workshops. The first week is held in Seoul and the following two weeks are held in Gwangju learning first-hand about the UNESCO-listed 1980 Gwangju democratic uprising against the former military regime. The 1980 Gwangju uprising is credited with bringing democracy to the Korean peninsula.
The May 18 Academy 2 strives to contribute to the development of democracy and human rights throughout Asia by hosting 20 invitees from all over the Asia (and sometimes even further afield! As we have have participants from Italy, Australia, Fiji), who have been working for human rights and peace organizations in their respective countries. The emphasis is on organizational partnership, so applicants endorsed by their organization will be given priority in the participant selection procedure. Applicants’ organizations should support their staff’s successful completion of the course from the May 18 Academy by providing expenses for issuing of the travel visa and internal travel expenses in their home country aside from the round trip airfare, Korean domestic expenses and accommodation which are provided by the Foundation for him/her.
The May 18 Academy 2 will be held for 3 weeks: from 30 July to 15 August, 2012.
The May 18 Academy 2 will select 20 participants as below:
- Junior Staff : 8 people (with 2-5 years of experience)
- Middle Management/Advisory : 8 people (with 5-15 years of experience)
- Senior/Director : 4 people (with more than 15 years of experience)
The May 18 Memorial Foundation will cover the following expenses during the program:
- Round trip airfare
- Transportation expenses in Korea
- Accommodation and food
The deadline to submit applications is 29 June 2012, which is likely to be extended to 1 July 2012. For more information, visit this link.
pe at farmers care foundation,ngo count it a blessing to be part of this training course.We deem it so because, looking at the crucial period when our country,Ghana, is going to have two major general elections thus,PARLIAMENTARY and PRESIDENTIAL on 7th DECEMBER,2012,notwithstanding the electoral malpractices that characterize elections in Africa, Ghana to be specific during and after the elections and looking at this crucial elections, we are more than happy to delegate a staff from our organization to be trained and train back home those of us at the organization to help us effectively in our work.
Peace have to be attained and precisely so at this time period of our elections.
Please be kindly therefore informed that, our organization has been of late actively involved in peace efforts more especially, on matters of democracy.
We anxiously await your response on our request sent asking if organizations from Africa are allowed to participate.
Please do let us hear from you.
Please extend your invitation to those of us in Afrca who are capable of raising our own sponsorship
Dear Sir/Madam,
This mail comes from the Equatoria women Association in South Sudan working on women and Gender related program covering 3 states in south Sudan. Western, Eastern and Central Equatorial states of South Sudan.
Comment:
To this Association, we really see this training opportunity as an opportunity for our Association top management because these are rare cases for our case in South Sudan and more so the women Association and being part and partial of such an opportunity is a prevelage because it improves on our local institutional capacity to perform our duties as per to our vision and mission of our Association. All the course covers, fall within our thematic areas and these are areas we deal with and having an additional knowledge for this matter on those areas is just a blessing and we really bag to be part of this opportunity.
In the Association we have two people proposed for this training;
1. The Executive Director by names Jane Gordon Sworo
2. The program Coordinator by names Kubako John
Best regards
From Equatoria Women Association
Yei County
Central Equatorial state
South Sudan