Call for Applications are invited for the Human Rights and Drug Policy Summer Course to be organized on July 16-27, 2012 at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. This course is being sponsored by the Open Society Foundations.
The main aim of this course is to situate drug policies globally within a framework of fundamental human rights and to assess the extent to which country and international drug policies fail to meet human rights standards.
Discussion will focus partly on the identification and understanding of human rights including those that have their basis in international agreements and laws and in part on evaluation and assessment of the gap between rights and practice in the implementation of drug policies in many countries and regions. The main motto of the course will be global and participants will be drawn from all regions internationally.
Applications are invited from high-achieving MA and PhD students, junior faculty, research staff in universities and other institutions and professionals. No prior knowledge of human rights and drug policy is required of participants.
A major objective of the course is to emphasize the interdisciplinary both of learning and of problem-solving. It is highly significant objective that non-standard disciplines be represented and that innovative skills and capacities are applied to this area of public policy.
Participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, as well as those coming from emerging countries worldwide can apply for financial aid to participate in the course.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
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