Short Courses
UPEACE/US offers professional training courses in Washington, DC and Costa Rica in conjunction with the UPEACE Center for Executive & Professional Education. The courses are designed to provide established and emerging leaders with the professional development opportunity to advance their leadership and management skills. Through these courses, leaders of all professional backgrounds are equipped with critical skills to maximize their impact in their respective careers and in the pursuit of peace and justice.
Skills for Non-Profit ...
The working environment in the social sector is changing at a rapid rate. On one hand, the global financial recession poses a significant constraint for most nonprofits. On the other hand, new management approaches, fundraising via emerging technologies, growing partnership options with the private sector, and the wider acceptance of entrepreneurial activities all provide significant opportunities as well. As a result, leading a nonprofit organization in this climate is a dynamic and challenging endeavour.
Dates and Topics: December 14 - 18, 2009. It will cover the following topic areas:
• Measuring impact and evaluating success
• Fundraising in the 21st Century
• Creating high performance teams
• Exploring your leadership style
(Negotiation and mediation, leadership styles and emotional intelligence)
Course Format: The course is designed to be a practical and hands-on course, allowing space for sharing and peer-to-peer learning. For more details, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Course Instructor: The course is anchored by Mohit Mukherjee, Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education and a faculty member at UPEACE. Prior to this position, he served as Education Programme Manager of the Earth Charter Initiative, an international nonprofit organization. He also spent four years in the private sector, at a top-tier international management consulting firm based in USA. He did his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and his Master’s at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also taking two courses at Harvard Business School on how to start up, manage, and grow social enterprises.
Course Cost: The tuition fee includes all course materials, accommodation and most meals. For international participants, it is $1,950 for the full-day format (including field visits) and $1,350 for morning sessions. Special rates are available for Costa Rica-based participants, not inclusive of lodging. Please e-mail us to inquire about this special rate.All participants will be awarded a certificate from the UN-mandated University for Peace upon completion of the course.
Please Note: If interested, please fill out our short Application Form or contact UPEACE/US with any questions you may have at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Corporate Social Resp...
Corporate Social Responsibility – Walking the Talk
This three-day workshop is designed for business executives and those interested in working in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The workshop goes beyond the incentives for engaging in CSR and addresses the question, ‘How does one implement it?’.
Main themes we will be covering:
• Incentives to engage in CSR: A strong rationale for proactively engaging in CSR
• Leading Frameworks for CSR: Looking at selected international frameworks, including the United Nations Global Compact
• Leadership in CSR: Bringing values to the workplace and developing leadership skills
• CSR communications: Engaging and inspiring stakeholders
• Engaging NGOs: Strategic partnerships for win-win alliances
• Case Studies of CSR in practice: Learning from best practices
• Formulating a CSR strategy: Participants will develop the outline of a CSR strategy for their organization
Dates: November 25 - 27, 2009.
Format: The workshop is designed to be practical and hands-on. The dynamic approach will incorporate case studies, simulations, dialogue, and will encourage peer-to-peer learning and networking.
Registration Process: Please please fill out our short Application Form or write to the Centre Director, Mohit Mukherjee at
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indicating you are interested in the course. If you experience e-mail problems, re-send to:
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. Enrollment is limited to a seminar group to maximize interaction and participation.
Speakers: The seminar features practitioners from the corporate, nonprofit and academic worlds. They will provide insight, working knowledge and examples of best practice.
The course will be anchored by Mohit Mukherjee, M. Ed. Harvard Univ.,Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education.
Workshop Costs: $1,500 for international participants. This tuition fee includes all course materials, 4 nights hotel accommodation, lunches and the closing reception. Special rate for Costa Rica-based participants of $750 (not including accommodation). All participants will be awarded a certificate from UPEACE upon completion of the course.
Doing Good Business in ...
An understanding of the economic, social, and political context of a region is an essential pre-requisite for doing business successfully in a new geographic market.
This field-based course will allow students to visit a variety of organizations and view first-hand the factors that influence business decision-making. Meetings with the founders and top management of companies will provide students living examples of the challenges of growing and running profitable enterprises in Costa Rica. Students will be encouraged to think about the implications of cultural norms in environments where models and expectations are different from those in a U.S. context.
The course also emphasizes the theme of ‘doing good business’, whereby a corporate responsibility strategy can not only positively impact society but enable companies to enhance their brand, motivate employees and build customer loyalty.
Course Dates: Please contact us if interested.
Course Instructor: The course is anchored by Mohit Mukherjee, Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive Education and a faculty member at UPEACE. Prior to this position, he served as Education Programme Manager of the Earth Charter Initiative, an international nonprofit organization. He also spent four years in the private sector, at a top-tier international management consulting firm based in USA. He did his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and his Master’s at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also taking two courses at Harvard Business School on how to start up, manage, and grow social enterprises.
Please Note: If interested, please contact the Centre Director, Mohit Mukherjee at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with any questions you may have. If you experience e-mail problems, re-send to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Technology and Peace ...
Course Description: The advent of new technologies has fundamentally changed the capacity for processing and exchanging information in the 21st century. NGOs and governments, and companies alike are just beginning to understand the potential that these tools and systems can have in analyzing and addressing a range of social problems. This dynamic one-week course will explore how technology is being used to transform conflicts, build more sophisticated statistical models, fight diseases, monitor elections, distribute food, design better economic development measures, and much more. It will also consider some of the key challenges related to access, implementation, scale, and evaluation that working with technology presents. The course is designed for professionals from both the private and public sectors to assist them in developing strategies and skills to benefit their organization amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Participants can expect a hands-on and interactive learning environment with a variety of real world examples from organizations working in the field.
Dates: June 14-18th 2010.
Location: The UPEACE campus is situated on 600 acres of natural reserve in the mountains of Costa Rica. Imagine taking a course with a rainforest out the window and dormant volcanoes in the distance!
Cost: For Credit - $956. For Training: $700. Cost does not include airfare or lodging.
Airfare: Continental, American Airlines, and USAir all fly to San Jose Costa Rica. Airfare from US ranges from $250-700.
Lodging:
- Corteza Amarilla: Built in a 4500 square meters property, and with a unique type of architecture mixing Art Noveau, Deco, Barroque and some oriental influence, Corteza provides you a tropical atmosphere, surrounded by costarican trees that bloom through the year and all the magic of well-lit and exotic gardens. http://www.cortezaamarillalodge.com/
- Homestays can be arranged for 100 dollars for the week
Nick is the Executive Director of UPEACE/US and has been with the organization since graduating from the Peace Education Masters program at UPEACE in 2006. Nick oversees all activities of the organization, both programmatic and operational, and is the chief liaison with the senior administrators at the University. His favorite role however is helping out with the DCPEACE afterschool program in local elementary schools. Nick is passionate about ideas and projects that connect the fields of education, peacebuilding, technology, and global citizenship and, over the past few years, has worked with closely with a number of organizations including Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET), the United Nations Association for the United States (UNA-USA) and the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI). Nick holds a BA with honors from Swarthmore College and was recently selected as a 2009 Global Fellow by the International Youth Foundation for his track record as a young social entrepreneur.
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