Summer School
Cencod Executive Summer School
Introduction
In the last three years, the Center for Constitutionalism and Demilitarisation successfully pioneered a governance training programme in three of Nigeria's six geopolitical zone, namely, South-East, South-South and North-Central with support from the Ford Foundation.
A total of 197 persons with varying backgrounds in governmental institutions and civil society benefited.
We are encouraged by this landmark success to call for application from corporate and governmental institutions to seize this opportunity for all-round knowledge in governance and put a stamp on the future. CENCOD Executive Summer School of Governance is about something deeper–equipping you with a global vision.
In CENCOD Executive Summer School of Governance you will learn:
Balance of Power and Global Politics:
Overviews bipolarity, Non-aligned Movement, Collapse of the Soviet Union, the unipolar moment and effect on contemporary politics as well as relevance of BOP to local dynamics.
New Trends in Development:
Deals with the issues in Development, theories and paradigms as well as approaches to development in Third World, the North/South bifurcation.
Corporate Governance:
Focuses on issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) with specific focus on Banks and MNCs on real sector development.
Globalisation:
Deals with core issues in globalisation such as convergence, digital divide, contemporary global issues, Asian financial crisis, liberalism and democratisation etc.
World Resources and Management:
Global resources and how the relative scarcity and distribution affects regions of the world; it will focus on availability of fresh water resources and environmental sustainability.
The economics of privatization and deregulation policies:
Examines state-led development, World Bank/IMF, Policy proscriptions, Impact of privatization and deregulation on national development.
Leadership and Governance:
Examines types of government, presidential parliamentary, monarchy and the whole concept of good governance and transparency.
Global Governance and Defence Update:
Reviews military expenditure on a global scale and comparative analysis of military capacity among nations. The position of Multinational Corporations (MNCs), Private Military Companies (PMCs), World Bank/IMF and World Trade Organisation (WTO) in international relations of production.
Conflict/Conflict resolution.
Overviews conflicts in different regions of the world their causes and transformations.
Who Should Attend
* Presidential aides
* Governors' aides
* Heads of Parastatals
* Local Government Chairmen/Councillors
* Corporate Affairs Managers
* State and National Assembly Committee Chairpersons.
* Security Personnel
* Political aspirants
* Civil Society Leaders
* NGO Programme Officers.
* Permanent secretaries
Expectation
Correspondingly participants are expected at the end of the programme to be able to relate these issues to corporate and socio-political environments and ultimately enhance the technical capacities and organizational output of their respective work places.
Human Rights and Monitoring and Investigation Project (HURMIP) at the instance of the delegation of European Commission Nigeria. The two year programme will end in the second quarter of 2007.