Upcoming Training Courses
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Social Justice Week Five-day Social Justice Weeks |
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Exemplary Social Justice Action: What works and Why - 3 case studies Presenter: Prof Linda Briskman, Clem Reilly, John Waddingham |
24 Oct 2009 |
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Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilites, Old Pathologies Presenters: Professor Peter Beilharz and David Freeman |
31 Oct 2009 |
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Partnering the Earth: Creation Spirituality Presenter: Moy Hitchen |
7 Nov 2009 |
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Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice Presenter: Phil Glendenning |
14 Nov 2009 |
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Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice Presenter: David Freeman and Dr Suma Kaare |
4 Dec 2009 |
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Aid or Development; Charity or Social Justice? Presenter: Janeen Murphy is Global Education Advisor for Caritas Australia. She has worked in this position for 8 years, including working with Caritas partners ‘on the ground’ in Uganda, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Cambodia and India. Janeen runs education programs in schools and higher education institutions, providing pathways to engage with justice issues. |
13 Mar 2010 |
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Resilient Cities: Saving Our Cities from Peak Oil and Climate Change Presenter: Professor Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and is on the Board of Infrastructure Australia that is funding infrastructure for the long term sustainability of Australian cities. He has recently returned from a North American tour promoting his two new books ‘Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change’ and ‘Green Urbanism Down Under’, both written with Tim Beatley. In 2001-3 Peter directed the production of WA’s Sustainability Strategy in the Department of the Premier and Cabinet. It was the first state sustainability strategy in the world. In 2004-5 he was a Sustainability Commissioner in Sydney advising the government on planning issues. In 2006/7 he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Virginia Charlottesville where he wrote his new books. In Perth, Peter is best known for his work in saving, reviving and extending the city’s rail system. |
1 May 2010 |
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International Human Rights: Systems. Laws, Entitlements What is meant by ‘human rights’? Many imagine it to be nothing more than a vague ethical aspiration. In fact, the past fifty years has seen numerous human rights established as formal legal rights. This Intensive introduces the key international laws, treaties and covenants, and how these rights relate to ordinary people. This hands-on workshop offers much to everybody, whether new to human rights or an experienced campaigner who wants to increase the effectiveness of their human rights activism. Learning Outcomes: On completion of this Intensive, participants will understand: - how to protect and promote their own human rights and those of other individuals and communities; - the functions and limitations of the international human rights system; - key human rights instruments, and the protections and rights they provide; - the human rights institutions and enforcement mechanisms of the UN system; - the role of Non-Government Organisations in the international human rights framework, and in promoting and solidifying human rights norms; - how to identify domestic human rights issues, and place them within an international context; - the human rights complaint and reporting mechanisms of the UN; and - the skills and knowledge they now possess to make their own human rights work more effective. |
15 May 2010 |
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Introduction to Aboriginal Australia TBC: Presenter: Dr Noel Nannup |
1 Jun 2010 |
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Be More - "Integrating Head, Heart, Hand for Social Justice" We live in a world of contrasts and conflicts. Whilst many of us in Australia live in a time of wealth, others in the world and in our country suffer debilitating poverty. One billion people of the world’s people suffer chronic hunger whilst more than one billion suffer obesity. Over 50% of Australians now have vocational or higher education qualifications, yet 121 million children in the world do not go to school. We also live in an era of unprecedented compassion. Many people want to do more than just donate money: they wish to be connected with the world and want to be part of the solution. The ‘Be More’ Challenge can provide you with the opportunity to harness this energy to tackle the structural nature of global poverty and secondly to promote the important role of living a life of faith and doing justice. Inspired by the words of Archbishop Oscar Romero ‘Aspire not to have more, but to be more’, Australians will be encouraged to ‘be more’ by making lifestyle changes and taking action for environmental and social justice. The Caritas Australia ‘Be More’ Challenge invites individuals, groups, schools, parishes and organizations to set themselves five challenges or goals to complete over a calendar year. The challenges are framed as personal, family, local, national and global levels with participants choosing one challenge for each level. This workshop will help to unpack the ‘Be More’ campaign and provide participants with skills to be able to organize their own ‘Be More’ weekend with their family, friends or wider community. It will provide participants the opportunity to join thousands of other Australians as they take up the ‘Be More’ Challenge! |
26 Jun 2010 |
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The Global Economy and Human Wellbeing Key Outcomes: By the conclusion of this Intensive, you will have gained a deeper understanding of: - what global free markets are doing to persons, families and societies; - the nature of corporate restructuring of work, and its social and psychological impacts for families and communities; - basic analytic techniques of ‘political economy’ necessary for understanding these changes; - the values underlying these changes, and how they might be ethically assessed; and - how to envisage (imagine) alternative models of work, and the process of realising such change. |
4 Sep 2010 |
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Between Governance and Mission-Centricity: Challenges for Not-For-Profit Managers and Boards By the conclusion of this Intensive, you will have gained a deeper understanding of: - why commerce-centric models traditionally used in planning and management are bad news for Not-for-Profits; - how a mission-centric view of strategic planning and management allows both outward-looking ideals and sound internal governance; - how to ensure that governance, financial and accountability requirements support rather than overwhelm or kidnap core objectives; - models to take away that are relevant to strategic planning, resource allocation and governance control while focused on mission outcomes. These models are relevant to most not-for-profits and charities; and how the organisations represented by participants face similar challenges; and how shared knowledge and networks can provide an enduring resource after the Intensive. |
11 Sep 2010 |
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Exemplary Social Justice Action: What Works and Why - 3 Case Studies If social justice and human rights are among the leading challenges before humanity, there is nothing more important than the skills to get us there. This Intensive is delivered by eminent leaders - Noel Nannup, Linda Briskman and John Waddingham - three highly effective social justice campaigns. |
23 Oct 2010 |
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Utopia's Shadow: Just Societies, New Possibilites, Old Pathologies Everybody knows that there is poverty, suffering, inequality and indignity. Everybody knows that the world would be better without them. Yet they persist. Why is this? Several ERISJ Intensives examine the role of power and wealth in perpetuating these problems. This Intensive asserts a second set of causes, emanating from the social justice side of the fence. Session Outline (more detail on arrival): - Why Social Justice Matters - Utopia and Dystopia - Searching for Ways Forward (an interactive afternoon) |
30 Oct 2010 |
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Advocacy and Media Skills for Social Justice This Intensive provides participants with rich insights into successful advocacy and media techniques for social justice work. Phil Glendenning – one of Australia’s best known and most effective human rights activists – conveys via case studies the skills required to communicate with the public and bring the public into campaigns as equal partners with human rights organisations. Learning Outcomes You will gain a deeper understanding of: - the differences between human rights-based advocacy and other forms of justice work (legal, constitutional, etc.); - necessary skills for effective advocacy campaigns through the media; - the differences between radio, TV and print media, and effective preparation for advocacy in each; - how to keep an advocacy focus on the needs of people as opposed to the needs of the media; and - preparing advocacy messages and media interviews with an understanding of the media cycle. |
13 Nov 2010 |
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Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice Core Insights that Underpin Social Justice Friday 3 December 2010: 10.00 am - 5:00 pm Presenter: David Freeman This Intensive seeks to ensure that the core insights that make "social justice" ethically and analytically convincing are well understood. |
3 Dec 2010 |
