What makes UPeace different from other peace and conflict studies courses in universities?
I guess what’s different is that we were mandated by the UN for a very specific purpose. The university has built a kind of credo. In our campus, we artificially create a student body that is totally representative — gender and geographically balanced. That creates a special atmosphere. Our aim is quite specific: to do things based on the UN Charter, the Declaration of Human Rights. The people we produce have a kind of mission that’s related to what is in those documents. For example, a young man who graduated last year went back to Kenya, and was given a job as the acting National High Commissioner for Human Rights. That was right before the events we all know of. So here was a student suddenly catapulted into a central position on a major world human rights issue. This, I think, is perhaps a little bit special. We also try to reach out to the world. We are doing curriculum building programmes in different universities across the world, trying to find ways to offer this programme of s
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