Education
One of the aims of the coastman project is the capacity building in coastal zone management with focus on methods for conflict resolution. Focussing on this, a joint educational programme will be developed. Main goal is the improvement of knowledge and skills in CZM among stakeholders.
Starting with a pilot course in autumn 2006, the project partners and different stakeholders will be trained. The educational network of partner Universities provides the trainings. The output is a web based course with on-line material focused on conflict resolution in coastal zone management.
Pilot Course
Start: 2nd and 3rd of October 2006 Riga
Finished: 15th December 2006 Stockholm
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Focus group
The focus group of this training course is participants of different coastal zone conflicts, which means a broad map of stakeholders with different experiences. It could be for example politicians, local and regional officers from municipalities or state organisations, managers/ officers from companies, NGO or people from university.
Aims
To provide deeper knowledge and understanding of conflict resolution in coastal zone conflicts in Baltic Sea Region from a perspective of Sustainable Development. This will mainly trough studies and discussions of different methods, tools and experiences of conflict resolution around BSR.
Content of the course
- Environmental Conflicts: Background and knowledge about environmental conflicts in general and especially according to Coastal Zone Conflicts.
- Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR): methods and tools.
- Legislation and agreements important to the BSR and costal zone conflicts.
- Case studies