IPD Summer Academy in Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation, Mediation & Intercultural Dialogue, Baar, Switzerland, August, 2015

During the past years IPD trained participants from Government Institutes, UN Agencies, OSCE, Courts, IOs, NGOs, Companies, University and participants with other different backgrounds from Nigeria, France, Mexico, Canada, United Arab Emirates, USA, Denmark, Romania, Germany, Netherlands, Kyrgyzstan, China, Malaysia, Congo, Costa Rica, Armenia, Turkey, Switzerland, UK, Serbia, Estonia, Malta, Republic of Macedonia, India, Irag, Japan, Costa Rica, Greece and Italy.

Next international summer academy programs take place in Baar (close to Zurich, Bern and Luzern Kantons) one of the beautiful place of Kanton Zug.

Migration Research Center at Koç University International Summer School "Diasporas and Transnational Communities" (29 June-10 July 2015)

The Call for Applications is now opened. Submissions are due by midnight GMT on Sunday, 25 April 2015.

This year MiReKoc Summer School will explore the theme of “Diasporas and Transnational Communities”. Described as “awkward dance partners” by Thomas Faist, the concepts of diasporas and transnational communities have been increasingly coined together within the international migration scholarship in the last decades. While the old concept of diaspora has initially been used to characterize specific (and usually victimized) populations living outside of an (imagined) homeland, the term of transnational communities was taken into account within the larger framework of transnationalism studies, evoking continuous ties across states’ physical borders. Even though many scholars agree that both terms address cross-border linkages of certain populations, the intellectual debate lingers on how well the two terms overlap with each other.

Migration Research Center at Koç University International Summer School: "Diasporas and Transnational Communities" (29 June-10 July 2015)

This year MiReKoc Summer School will explore the theme of “Diasporas and Transnational Communities”. Described as “awkward dance partners” by Thomas Faist, the concepts of diasporas and transnational communities have been increasingly coined together within the international migration scholarship in the last decades. While the old concept of diaspora has initially been used to characterize specific (and usually victimized) populations living outside of an (imagined) homeland, the term of transnational communities was taken into account within the larger framework of transnationalism studies, evoking continuous ties across states’ physical borders. Even though many scholars agree that both terms address cross-border linkages of certain populations, the intellectual debate lingers on how well the two terms overlap with each other.

Call for Applications: 10th Migration Summer School: Framing Migration Differently: From Implicit Problem to Implied Asset, Florence, Italy, 23 June - 4 July

International migration has become an all-important issue for the world as a whole, and for the European Union and its neighbourhood in particular. If you are interested in studying migration from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, critically interrogating some of the subtle assumptions underlying much contemporary academic, political and media debate on migration and re-framing how we view and speak about migration, why not join the 10^th Migration Summer School?