Applications are now closed
Caux Scholars Program - Brazil 2025
January 26, 2025 - February 18, 2025
Applications are now closed for the Caux Scholars Program - Brazil
An intensive residential program on building global leaders as innovators of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, trauma-informed healing, and narrative transformation.
Porto Alegre, Brazil.
About the Program:
The Caux Scholars Program is a dynamic and transformative learning experience held annually. Bringing together a diverse group of global leaders and activists, the program equips scholars with the knowledge, skills, and practical methods to address conflicts and promote peacebuilding.
Through interdisciplinary academic courses, interactive discussions, leadership exercises, and institutional field visits, scholars explore topics such as conflict prevention, negotiation, development studies, international relations, and transitional justice. With a focus on personal growth, accountability, and inclusive decision-making processes, the program cultivates a vibrant community of scholars who contribute to sustainable progress and inspire interconnected peace and justice movements worldwide.
After having run impactful editions in Caux, Switzerland and Asia Plateau, India, the program now travels to Porto Alegre, Brazil for the first time.
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About the Faculty:
Dr. David Anderson Hooker PhD, JD, M. Div. is the Founder and Principal Narrator for Counter Stories Consulting, llc. Counter Stories engages as a conversation and visioning partner with international, national and local civil society organizations, religious groups, organization leaders, and social entrepreneurs to craft narratives of their preferred futures and align organizational structures and internal practices in furtherance of their constructed narratives.
For almost 40 years, Hooker has served as mediator, restorative circle steward, facilitator, community builder, scholar, and advocate. Hooker’s primary focus is in the role of narratives for the transformation of multi-party disputes and post conflict community reconciliation, especially those conflicts where race, gender, class, religion, and other socially constructed variables significantly impact the disputed context. Hooker is the author of The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing, co-author of Transforming Historical Harms and author of several chapters and articles considering the roles of narratives in identity formation and multi-generational trauma, and restorative justice.
Hooker is formerly a Professor of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame (2016-2021) and Senior Fellow for Community Engagement Strategies at the J. W. Fanning Institute for Leadership at University of Georgia (2010-2015). Hooker is also an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC). In all of his preparation, he still believes his best professional training is as an understudy in community theatre and as a student of urban partner dances such as Detroit Urban Ballroom, Chicago Stepping, and the Cleveland Hand dance.
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