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Liberia Summer Institute May 26-June 20, 2014
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http://www.payson.tulane.edu/si Monrovia, LIBERIA: Gender & Leadership in Post-Conflict Environments May 26 - June 6, 2014 Instructor: Tanya Garnett-Murcy After fourteen years of violent conflict that ended in 2004, Liberia is rebuilding in an effort to increase the living standards of citizens whilst encouraging confidence in the country’s future. Maintaining peace through a dynamic post-conflict reconstruction process is an area of study where development can have tremendous impact. The transition to peace, reconciliation and rebuilding pose several challenges for countries recovering from years and sometimes decades of violent conflict. Regaining economic strength, decreasing unemployment levels, increasing literacy, improving public services, and restoring infrastructure are all necessary for the fight against poverty. - See more at: http://payson.tulane.edu/summerinst/gender-leadership-post-conflict-environments Monrovia, LIBERIA: Sustainable Tourism & Development June 9 - 20, 2014 Instructor: Dauphine Sloan Tourism has long been hailed as a sound source of economic growth, job creation, and foreign currency earner for developing countries. Tourism and travel, including related supply chains, contribute around 13% of GDP and close to 12% of national employment, in Kenya and Tanzania[1], the superstars of African safaris. In West Africa, more recent tourist destinations such as Ghana and Sierra Leone generate more modest results but still succeed in delivering about half as much in production and jobs as these East African tourism powerhouses. Nearby, on the West African coast, with its attractive surf and lagoons at Robertsport and Piso Lake in the shade of Grand Cape Mount, its rain forest and wildlife in Sapo National Park, Liberia’s nascent tourism industry could in turn provide a way to diversify and enrich the country’s economy, while striving to make it humanly and environmentally sustainable. - See more at: http://payson.tulane.edu/summerinst/sustainable-tourism-and-development
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Liberia Summer Institute
May 26-June 20, 2014
Liberia Summer Institute
Monrovia 2014“Gender & Leadership in Post-Conflict
Environments”Dates: May 26 – June 6
“Sustainable Tourism and Development”Dates: June 9 – June 20
Instructors
• Course 1: Dr. Tanya Garnett-Murcy• Course 2: Dr. Dauphine Sloan
Introducing: Monrovia, Liberia
Course 1: Gender & Leadership in Post-Conflict Environments
Introduction to post-conflict environments and challenges that reconstruction governments face in rebuilding
Focus on gender and leadership with Liberia’s current female-led government as a pertinent example
Guest lecturers from government, civil society and business. Plus field trips to key areas of rebuilding efforts
Gender & LeadershipField Research
Students will carry out a gender analysis on an aspect of post-conflict reconstruction to demonstrate how gender roles impact development
Using results from the analysis, students will draft a policy document making recommendations for mainstreaming gender in the rebuilding process
Course 2: Sustainable Tourism and Development
• Economic growth, job creation, foreign currency earner + sustainable human development?
• Introduction to applied field and operations research & management in the African context
• Focus on Sustainable Development from an eco- and edu-tourism perspective
• Use burgeoning Liberian tourist sector as case study http://travelfoodguru.wordpress.com
Course 2: Sustainable Tourism and Development
• Examine Liberia’s political, economic, and social challenges
• Define sustainable tourism: how can it be a tool of development?
• Fieldtrips to UN, government agencies, international and local NGOs, and businesses working toward sustainable development
• Visits to eco-tourism sites such
as Kpatawee Waterfalls, Roberstport and Sapo National Park
Sustainable TourismField Research
Identify a development problem relevant to sustainable tourism in Liberia
Carry out a case study and needs assessment
Collect and analyze data
Propose a development strategy and implementation structure using the conceptual framework approach
Local Partners/Internships
University of Liberia Ministry of Gender and
Development Ministry of Commerce and
Industry Center for Excellence in Health
and Life Sciences John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital The James A. A. Pierre Judicial
Institute Local Civil Society Organizations Hibiscus Eco Resort
Field Trips
Mount Nimba
Lake Piso
Robertsport
Kpatawee Waterfals
Sapo National Park
• Located in South Eastern Liberia• Part of the Upper Guinean Forest
Ecosystem• 2nd largest area of primary
rainforest in West Africa
Course Logistics
Teaching: Courses will be held at
the University of Liberia, Capitol Hill and Fendell Campuses
Generally, lectures and guest speakers in the morning and fieldtrips in the afternoon or all day
Housing: Shared rooms (2
students per room) Breakfast, lunch and
coffee break will be provided
http://bellacasaliberia.com/index.html
http://krystaloceanview.com/
University of Liberia
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