EPU Tube

EPU Tube Finished Today.

2010-06-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

As of June 30th 2010 EPU Tube is now completed!

Thanks to all of you who watched and subscribed! More Peace videos will be made by us in the future, just search the names of all the great people involved and visit EPU's website and go if you can!

EPU Tube was a pilot programmed made by students of the European Peace University in Fall 2008. Passwords and documentation are with the EPU Admin now, so hopefully it continues in the future with the new EPU-Private University.

May peace be with you all!

EPUPU: Official Announcement

2010-06-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

Dear EPU Alumni,

We are very happy and proud to tell you that, after a tremendous effort, much work and a long time of insecurity, EPU has finally been accredited as a private university by the Austrian Accreditation Council!! It’s new name is European Peace University (EPU) – Private University. There is also a new website, which we encourage you to visit and recommend to friends and colleagues: www.epu.ac.at .

The old EPU – European University Center for Peace Studies

·         If you have not yet finished your academic work for EPU, please note that the ultimately last deadline for handing in all graded academic work with the EPU office (Anita Flasch, epu@epu.ac.at) is 1 July 2010. Any academic work received after this deadline cannot be considered!

The new EPU – Private University

·         3 new MA& Certificate programs
MA or Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies (starting in Fall 2010)
MA or Certificate in European Peace and Security Studies (starting in Fall 2011)
MA or Certificate in Peacebuilding (starting in Fall 2011)

                The MA programs consist of 3 taught trimesters in Schlaining. Additionally, 1 trimesters is reserved for an internship, and the final trimester is dedicated to the writing of the MA
            thesis. Enrollment is possible in each fall trimester of a given academic year.

            The Certificate programs consist of 1 trimester attending courses and doing coursework in Stadtschlaining. Enrollment is possible in each trimester.

·         MA & Certificate Degrees
Those having done all the required coursework including the MA thesis are granted an MA degree of EPU – Private University. This degree is in line with the Bologna Process and recognized all over Europe. Those having fulfilled all the requirements of the Certificate program are awareded a Certificate of Attendance.

Further information can be found on the newly launched website www.epu.ac.at .

Fall Trimester 2010 (26 September – 18 December)

The first trimester of the new EPU – Private University will be held in Fall 2010. We would be very grateful if you could disseminate information on EPU – Private University as widely as possible, and refer people interested to our website www.epu.ac.at .

The new EPU – Private University preserves the special characteristics of the European University Center for Peace Studies which students loved and identified with, and combines it with the features of a full-fledged university. Thus, we now have an EPU that is improved, more up-to-date and a recognized academic institution.

We would like as many qualified people as possible to profit from this new and improved EPU – Private University. Therefore we count on you to help promote EPU and disseminate information on it within your circles.

Finally, we would like to sincerely thank you for having been our student, for your continuous support and for believing in EPU!!

Warm wishes from Stadtschlaining,

Gerald Mader, President
Alexandra Elbling, Secretary General & Director of Study Program
Ronald Tuschl, Director of Study Program

Mag. Alexandra Elbling
Secretary General
European Peace University (EPU) - Private University
Rochusplatz 1
7461 Stadtschlaining
Tel.: ++43 3355 2498 511
Fax: ++43 3355 2381
E-Mail: elbling@epu. ac.at
Web: www.epu.ac.at

Comments from Academic Advisor Dr. Dietrich Fischer are up!

2009-06-02T01:07:00.000-07:00

An interview with Dietrich Fischer is online! Very relaxed and informative!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAyecBxoF2c

Also online are several of Dietrich's infamous stories for your viewing pleasure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi3r9JellHc - Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ3TaQQVnR8 - Part 2

Big Update and Handover Notification!

2009-06-01T22:03:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

To many of you who have been through EPU you know what it is like to get out the other side... It's been a crazy bunch of months for me but slowly but surely the footage is getting up!

Right now the Summer Term has started at EPU with what looks to be a great lineup of classes and possibly the last trimester of classes run the way we are accustomed to. (See the site for details: http://www.epu.ac.at/start.html)

Henceforth I am urging the students there to take over EPU-Tube and really capture some moments in this possibly last summer term! Sofie Morin, Roya Murphy, Dominik Lehnert, Joelle Rizk, Nirma Bala - all have the passcodes for the EPU Tube and associated accounts, so hopefully they will use them! (Or pass them on to people who will!)

Meanwhile I will be uploading all my remaining video data furiously over the course of the next couple of days! Since the last update on this BLOG months ago several videos are online:

-Dominik Lehnert and Brigitt Altwegg's great in-class video: "Our Project for Peacebuilding - Sri Lanka"
- Sociocracy interview with Emilè van Danzig
- Interview with Johan Galtung on his course and the EPU experience
- Interview with Stella Sabiiti on Mediation and her thoughts on EPU

Still to come:
Interviews and Storytelling with Dietrich Fischer
EPU students on: 'Why they came to EPU', 'The EPU Experience', 'Their plans post EPU', 'Their Visions for an ideal EPU's future' and more...!

Quite frankly the footage of the students was far lengthier and more substantial than i thought which has made the editing process laborious! At this point however I will work on just getting them up rather than finesse, and for anyone still at EPU reading this I did leave all the raw video files on the computer nearest the door at the end of my last term in December. Hopefully Robert would have kept it...and if anyone wants the raws I can burn you a DVD and send it.

That's all for now, stay tuned! New Term, new videos!
Adrian Kawaley-Lathan

New Interviews Filmed!

2008-12-19T20:21:00.000-08:00

Interviews have been conducted today with the Academic Director of EPU Dietrich Fischer, as well as Week 12 Lecturers Stella Sabiiti and Andrew Strauss! Keep an eye out for those in the coming weeks along with all the other exciting Fall 2008 footage!

EPU Fall 2008 Graduation Ceremony

2008-12-19T20:06:00.000-08:00

Today was the final day of Fall Term 2008 at the European Peace University. It was decided not to film at the closing ceremony, however graduating student Christoph Ziegler has kindly provided his speech presented during the ceremony for our Blog viewers titled "What is EPU?" Thank you for sharing Christoph!

What is EPU
It was my last term and I want to share with you some of my thoughts and experiences, which are also yours.

What is Epu? What does it mean?

EPU is the spirit of hope for a better world
EPU is a protected environment to show and to deal with our weaknesses
EPU, especially House International is the most famous center in whole Burgenland for rumors and gossiping
EPU is a balancing act between sharing with the community and withdrawing to centre yourself
EPU is the challenge to deal with the temptations between men and women in House International and to handle different cultures and mentalities.
EPU is the tension and synthesis between high motivation and also frustration
EPU is a illusory family but also reality
EPU for a student is the feeling of having time for everything and on the other side the feeling of having no time for anything.
EPU is world politics in a ghost town.
EPU is the happy experience to find friends and the sad experience to say good bye to them.
EPU is located at the end of the world but after the study you are connected to the whole world
EPU creates in all of us a common vision: that´s a peaceful world and also a bigger kitchen in House International
EPU stands for wonderful people, who want to work for a peaceful world.
And concerning the future of EPU, whatever happens, the spirit of EPU will never die.

Christoph Ziegler

What is Conflict video uploaded!

2008-12-19T03:59:00.001-08:00

A new video titled: 'What is Conflict?' has successfully been uploaded to EPU Tube!

This is an experimental peace education video created by EPU Students of Fall Term 2008. Based on the World Cafè methodology introduced to us by Fred Dubee in Summer 2008 term, this video brainstorm session starts from the question: 'What is conflict?' and expands from there!

This video is intended to give an introductory insight into the complexities of peace and conflict studies and the further questions that are raised, as a mind mapping tool for those wondering what Peace and Conflict Studies is about!

Enjoy, and tune in for more!

What IS EPU Tube?

2008-12-17T08:04:00.000-08:00

The students will tell you in the Official Introduction video!

Introduction Video Text:
"EPU Tube is the online voice of the students of the European Peace University.
EPU-Tube is here to share, our experience, our dreams, our ideas for peace, our research, our projects, our challenges, our successes, our theses, our analyses, our hopes, our views, our stories, our goals for peace with the world.
The whole world needs peace education, now more than ever, and were glad to share these tools for peace with you.
Tune In!"

EPU Tube is a project originally developed by Adrian Kawaley-Lathan as part of his MA Thesis, tentatively titled: Communities of Peace and Beyond: Examining the Creation, Continuation and Extension of Communities & Cultures of Peace.

In short EPU Tube's goals are to:
•Share peace education with the world via the internet
•Keep EPU Students and Alumni connected
•Provide forum and debate about peace topics
•Provide reading and links to further knowledge
•Get valuable thesis, papers and ideas online and more accessible
•BLOG with outside world about inside EPU classes, discussions, topics
•Get handed down to each generation of EPU students as continuity
•Empower, engage, enable all people for achieving positive peace

The video channel for EPU Tube is: http://www.youtube.com/user/PeaceStudentsOnline

EPU Tube is student run and thus the content is not directly affiliated with the European Peace University and its views as an organization. The website for the European Peace University is: http://www.epu.ac.at/

Stay posted for more details on structure, video topics and projects to look forward to, and so much more!

EPU Tube Begins!

2008-12-17T07:52:00.000-08:00

Welcome everyone to the official Bog for the EPU Tube, the online voice of the students of the European Peace University!

We are reaching the end of the Fall Term 2008, but the video insights and memories from the term are still coming online, with many more to come when the Spring 2009 term starts in February. We have many videos being edited and many more uploading to be shared with the world, so keep your eyes on this blog or subscribe to our channel for updates!

Tune In!