Health as a Bridge for Peace - Active learning package
Preface
This is the first draft of the Health as a Bridge for Peace Active Learning Package. The Active Learning Package has been prepared by the International Training Programme for Conflict Management of the Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa, Italy.
This document is the result of the experience developed during the preparation and the conducting of the first Workshop on Health as a Bridge for Peace, which has been held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 8 – 12 March 1999. This first draft will be tested in one or more workshops, which will be held according to WHO indications. The Active Learning Package will be finalised in accordance with:
- The assessment of the employment of this first draft in further training exercises;
- The feedback from relevant institutions, agencies, and resource persons
The scope and the structure of the Active Learning Package has been extensively discussed on several occasions, particularly in a meeting in Colombo during the first Workshop of Health as a Bridge for Peace. Lecturers and resource persons of the Workshop and WHO representatives participated in the meeting and contributed to the elaboration of this first draft.
The Active Learning Package has been built and defined according to the model of the first Workshop in Colombo. The model proposed develops the curriculum of the training topic by topic from the most general and introductory subjects, e.g. conflict analysis, to the most specific ones, e.g. international humanitarian law. In Colombo there was a general agreement that the benefits of this approach are to have a fairly simple model that is easy to apply and has already been tested in a Workshop. A potential flaw was identified in the difficulties for the trainers to give the perception of the interdependency among different topics, e.g. between human rights law and international humanitarian law.
The International Training Programme for Conflict Management is willing to reconsider this approach according to feedback and the results of further training exercises.
The meeting suggested also that the use of the CD - ROM format could be the most appropriate for the Active Learning Package. The CD – ROM format would be a very manageable tool, web friendly and would guarantee flexibility and cross-reference.