The organisers of the conference on Higher Education for Peace in
Tromsø, 4 – 6 May 2000 would like to remind participants,
contributors, and in particular invited speakers of the following
objectives, which we will also set as 'terms of reference' for the
conference: 

Our objectives are

to encourage and challenge all institutions of higher education to analyse their own roles and their potential as peace builders and promoters of human rights. 

to exemplify how peace issues are, or may be, included in different kinds of higher education. 

to develop and share ideas on the content of education and methods which enable students and staff - and other professionals - to participate in practical peace work. 

 to focus on the interdependence between higher education and research, and the need to use and expand expertise in peace and human rights education. 

to discuss how such teaching programmes and learning processes may challenge and bridge the traditional divide between theory and practice in institutions of higher education. 

 to highlight the impact of higher education on the entire education system. 

to combine and share knowledge, experience, values and visions in ways that will begin to transform a culture of war into a culture of peace.