LMU IN CROATIA : War, Peace, and reconciliation
[semester-long program]
This semester program is starting in Spring 2022. It grew out of very successful collaboration between ECSWP and LMU. It is based on Signature ECSWP Programs, aspects of LMU summer program, LMU’s mission and needs of LMU students.
While it will retain some of the highlights of the summer program, this program will allow students greater immersion into the region, more extensive travel and opportunity to learn, grow and be mentored professionally, academically and personally.
Course Offered:
Introduction to the Balkans (Dr. Petra Taylor)
Philosophy of Peace and Hospitality (Dr. James Taylor)
War and Peace through Literature (Dr. Petra Taylor)
LMU Faculty led course (TBD)
Locations:
Croatia: Zagreb, Vis
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo
Serbia: Belgrade
Dates:
August 14 - November 20, 2021
February 18 - June 4, 2022
To learn more about and apply go to LMU’s study abroad site.
Or, apply as an interested student directly to ECSWP.
LMU IN CROATIA :
Summer Program for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation
[month-long program]
This program will examine the dynamics of conflict and the challenges involved in bringing about reconciliation among groups divided by distrust and enmity. We will study these themes in one of Europe's oldest conflict zones- at the crossroads between the political and religious systems of the east and west (Islam and Christianity, Ottoman and European Monarchies, Communism and Capitalism)- where local conflicts reflect and engender conflicts among world powers. Studying course themes in Croatia and surrounding countries while meeting and conversing with war survivors, and political, religious, and intellectual figures, will allow these issues to become palpable and urgent to students. This in turn will allow students to examine tendencies toward exclusion and violence in their own lives, and to develop hospitable practices and attitudes that lead to peace.
Courses Offered:
Narrative and Identity (Dr. Brian Treanor)
War and Peace: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (Dr. James Taylor and Petra Taylor)