[Commlist] Call for Visiting Lecturers: Media and Peace MA Program at University for Peace

*Call for Visiting Lecturers: Media and Peace MA Program at University 
for Peace*

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The University for Peace, established by the General Assembly of the 
United Nations, located in San Jose, Costa Rica is seeking visiting 
lecturers to teach courses within the MA in Media and Peace program of 
the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies for the academic year 
2019-2020. Visiting lecturer-ships are available for the following 
courses and will be held on the dates mentioned below.

*Introduction to Media and Peace*: 30 October-19 November 2019

*Global Structures and Cultures, Media and Conflict: *25 November-13 
December 2019

*Censorship, International Law and Media *13-31 January 2020

*Conflict, Media Technoculture and Peace: *3-21 February 2020

*Culture Wars, Peacebuilding and Media Representations: *15 April-05 May 
2020

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For detailed description of the courses, see further below.

Appointment will be on the basis of a short-term, full-time contract for 
the three-week duration of the courses. The University for Peace will 
cover the financial costs of your travel: ticket in economy class, hotel 
accommodations and a daily allowance amount of US$55.00**to cover meals, 
personal transportation and miscellaneous expenses. The honorarium for 
the course will be US$4,500.00. Please be aware that in accordance with 
the Income Tax Law of the Republic of Costa Rica, the UPEACE will 
withhold from the amount to be paid (US$4,500.00) 15% (fifteen percent).

Interested applicants are requested to review the attached course 
descriptions and determine the course for which they want to be 
considered as a lecturer based on their relevant academic expertise 
and/or equivalent professional experience. They are then invited to 
apply for the positions to the following persons (copying both):

Dr. Saumava Mitra

Coordinator, MA in Media and Peace

(smitra /at/ upeace.org) <mailto:(smitra /at/ upeace.org)>


Dr. Heather Kertyzia

Head, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

(hkertyzia /at/ upeace.org) <mailto:(hkertyzia /at/ upeace.org)>


Emailed applications must include *1) a detailed curriculum vitae* (Max. 
5 Pages) and *2) a cover letter* mentioning which course the applicant 
is applying to teach, and describing briefly how their relevant 
experience and expertise in the topic area makes them a suitable 
candidate (Max. 2 Pages). *3)* *a teaching statement* which clearly 
states examples of pedagogy as they might be used in the course (Max. 2 
pages). Please include the words *‘UPEACE Media Visiting Lecturer’* in 
the subject line of the email. Successful applicants will demonstrate 
exceptional research and pedagogic expertise in the topic area of the 
relevant course and/or up-to-date outstanding practical and training 
experience in the intersectional area of Media and Peacebuilding.

Emailed applications must reach by *11: 59 PM Central Standard Time,* 
*February 28 2019*.

*About the Department*: The Department of Peace and Conflict Studies of 
the University for Peace offers a range of postgraduate programs in the 
areas of peacebuilding and conflict transformation, gender studies and 
peace education. Since its inception in 1980, it has also been home to 
cutting edge research and pedagogy at the cross-disciplinary area of 
Media and Communication Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies. In the 
academic year 2019-2020, the department is re-launching its MA in Media 
and Peace as a full-fledged postgraduate program. This program is a 
revitalization of the MA in Media, Peace and Conflict that was 
previously offered by the department and extends the current 
Specialization in Media, Peace and Conflict offered within the MA in 
Peace and Conflict Studies program. For more information see 
www.upeace.org <http://www.upeace.org>.

*About the University*: The University for Peace is renowned for its 
globally inclusive research and pedagogy in the broad area of Peace and 
Conflict. Home to the departments of Peace and Conflict Studies, 
Environment and Development, and International Law, it attracts a global 
body of students drawn from every continent of the earth every year. The 
University was established as a Treaty Organization of the United 
Nations with its own Charter in an International Agreement adopted by 
the General Assembly in Resolution 35/55 in December 1980. Its mission 
is "to provide humanity with an international institution of higher 
education for peace and with the aim of promoting, among all human 
beings, the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, 
to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and 
threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble 
aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations". For more 
information see www.upeace.org <http://www.upeace.org>.

*For informal inquiries*about the visiting lecturer-ships, contact the 
program coordinator at (smitra /at/ upeace.org) <mailto:(smitra /at/ upeace.org)>

*University for Peace Media and Peace MA 2019-2020: Courses open for 
visiting lecturers*

The list below outlines the five courses of the Media and Peace MA 
Program for which we are seeking visiting lecturers. Dates when the 
courses will be held are mentioned in brackets beside the title of the 
course. Applicants are requested to kindly make sure that they are 
available to travel to Costa Rica and teach these courses on these dates 
before applying as dates of the courses are non-negotiable and 
re-scheduling is not possible. MA courses offered at UPEACE are 
intensive and consist of five three-hour sessions per week during the 
three week period. Typically, final assignments by the students are due 
within the course period or shortly thereafter.

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*Introduction to Media and Peace*[30 October -19 November 2019]

This course will draw on theories and prior knowledge from both Media 
and Communication studies and Peace and Conflict Studies to identify the 
areas where ideas, concepts, theories and practices of the two 
disciplines merge and can help augment each other. It will particularly 
aim to provide students with a clear understanding of how media and 
conflict, communication and peace, are inter-related with each other. It 
will also apply this knowledge through student-led analysis of real 
world examples of contemporary conflicts and peacebuilding efforts. The 
course will ideally culminate in student projects of case study analyses 
of media’s role in a particular conflict-affected context or type of 
social conflict.

*Global Structures and Cultures, Media and Conflict *[25 Nov-13 Dec 2019]

This course will build a critical understanding of how 
political-economic and socio-cultural inequities in the macro structures 
that govern media in today’s globalized world, form obstacles to peace, 
and fuel conflict in and between societies. Including the influential 
and still-relevant debate surrounding the New World Information and 
Communication Order (1980) of the UN General Assembly, this course will 
focus on the continuities and changes before and since in the political 
and economic structures that underlie global media. It will focus on 
understanding how globalization, media structures and contemporary 
conflicts are inter-related and influence each other. A special focus 
within this broader discussions will be to create understanding of what 
role news media and journalism has traditionally played in reporting and 
representing conflict in ways that have been detrimental to 
peace-related goals of the international community. **

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*Censorship, International Law and Media *[13-31 January 2020]**

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Taking advantage of synergies between the fields of International Law 
and Human Rights on one hand, and Media and Peace on the other, this 
course will offer a critical analysis of the relationship between law 
and media around the world. It will include topics such as legal and 
illegal censorship of news and other media in different national 
contexts, as well as the international rights to communication and 
freedom of expression, enshrined in regional and international legal 
frameworks. Specific sessions will describe how national and 
international media-related legal structures and policies can encourage 
or discourage processes of conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and 
humanitarian advocacy.

*Conflict, Media Technoculture and Peace *[3-21 Feb 2020]

This course will focus on the emerging techno-cultural forces in the 
‘new’ digital media environment and relate these to issues of 
peacebuilding and conflict transformation. It will focus on citizen 
journalism as well as other user-generated content to explore how 
conditions of peace and conflict can be affected by them in different 
contexts. These intersections between ‘new media’ and peace will include 
discussions of privacy and surveillance in an online environment, 
cyber-wars and cyber-terrorism on the one hand and potentials for global 
civic engagement and empowerment of the dis-enfranchised through digital 
media tools and platforms, on the other. Ideally, the students will be 
encouraged to build their own digital media-based communication product 
aimed for conflict transformation or social justice as the final student 
project for this course, with the option to instead critically analyze 
existing examples of digital platforms and communications from a 
peacebuilding perspective.

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*Culture Wars, Peacebuilding and Media Representations *[15 Apr-05 May 2020]

The course will focus on introducing students to the theories of 
critical cultural studies and identity politics as it applies to media 
representations of peacebuilding processes and contemporary conflicts. 
The course will focus on existing research and real-world examples to 
show how different types of media, can perpetuate conflicts in societies 
and between societies through visual and textual representations that 
underscore racial, gender-related and cultural differences. It will also 
build critical knowledge of how media is currently used in humanitarian 
communication that aims to bring down boundaries between groups with 
different identities and how it can be improved for peacebuilding 
purposes. Ideally, the course will culminate in a choice for students to 
critically analyze a humanitarian campaign or to create a media campaign 
for a humanitarian purpose, of their choice.


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