This summer, Arcadia offers you the unique opportunity to study in Tanzania, an unparalleled academic experience focusing on human rights education at the Arcadia Center for East African Studies. In this extraordinarily beautiful country, featuring mountains, lakes and game reserves renowned the world over, you will be ideally positioned to learn about some of the most important international peace initiatives in modern African history.

Your international peace studies will focus on the region of East Africa specifically, and will be informed by the work of the legal and developmental human rights organizations in operation there. Practical approaches to various human-rights issues will be explored, and visits to field sites in Arusha and in the Maasai community will round out the peace education experience. This undergraduate summer opportunity was developed in coordination with Arcadia University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution Master's program.

You'll be taught by expert faculty in the field of peace and international conflict studies. In addition, you will interact with collaborating partners from the East African Law Society, as well as numerous guest speakers from major African governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the East African Community (EAC), the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UN ICTR), and the African Union Court of Human and People's Rights.

This unique and intensive summer peace and conflict study program offers six credits for completion of the six-week symposium. You can expect to gain an understanding of development at the community level, and the ways in which grassroots projects build capacity and empower communities. The information you garner from cultural and experiential exchange will be invaluable as you consider links between East and West, theory and practice, diplomacy and development, and international peace and conflict resolution.