• Immediate ‘turning point’ in the students’ original careers;
• Qualitative and Modern professional roles;
• Professionalism in social change;
• Skills for local and international opportunities;  

 

 

At the professional level, AUNOHR aims to:

• Develop the students’ skills to graduate with new quality competencies that serve them in their original careers, and allow them to improve their moral and financial status.
• Introduce, to the social and business world, new professions that have become top priority in the present and future.

 

Professional Roles and Careers 

 « I did not know that this major was going to change my life. Every day opens a new door with good financial reward. I did not expect that… » ;

« The bank chose me over two other major companies to train managers and employees ... »;

« After completing only half of my studies, I was surprised to receive an increase in my training wages, an increase that I did not even ask for… » ;

« The administration asked me to share my expertise and skills with my colleagues although I was the youngest among them,..»;

« Following my first experience in non-violent education at my children’s school, the administration asked me to prepare a comprehensive project to implement over a span of three years to transform the entire institution into a pioneering non-violent school...»…

See: Students’ Testimonials

 

Students specialize at AUNOHR to hold jobs in the following categories:

• Education and teaching.
• Training: seniors and creative managers in the very needed and modern trainings.
• NVC training.
• Mediation: Training, teaching and leading programs.
• Student affairs offices in universities and schools.
• Management of schools or educational institutions: coordination, supervision, transformation of a school in a non-violent school.
• Extracurricular activities in schools and institutions.
• Educational Orientation: Ministry of education; Pedagogic bureau in public and private schools.
• Curricula Reform. Manuals.
• Training of trainers and teachers.
• Management in Local, regional and international organizations and associations.
• Media.
• Experts in developing non-violent communication in the media, electronic media and video games.
• Training of journalists.
• Experts in human rights, legal mediation and conflict prevention mechanisms.
• Experts in public opinion institutions.
• University and academic training in various areas.
• Human Rights Theater, teaching and training.
• Rehabilitation through non-violent theatrical methods.
• Social responsibility in private companies and institutions.
• Human resources in companies and institutions.
• Municipalities: leading programs, trainings, resolving disputes.
• Civil campaigns and networks: coordinators, strategists, community organizers.
• Training of lawyers, jurists and judges.
• Officials in decision making institutions and ministries, for the planning and implementation of human rights.
• Leaders of non-violent and non-sectarian religious action.
• ...

 

Social change and civil work

“We struggled everyday for we did not know there were scientific strategies that could make a 180-degrees shift in the impact of our activity...”;

“The first time we used these methodologies, everyone around us sensed the difference...”;

“In direct actions and planning, they started viewing me as a reference...”;

“One of the major objectives of the University and results of this study is that it has created a non-violent Arab seed that will have a significant impact on our social roles and in facing violence; we have started to witness this impact and see its results...”
See: Students’ Testimonials

 

At the professional social level, AUNOHR strives to: 
Prepare students, through a number of its unique majors in higher education, to specialize in civil work and in the methodologies of social change.

Our societies are in dire need of renewal and professionalism, and they deserve our furnishing them with high caliber of activists, advocates and officials in civil work management, impact and creativity. Moreover, these roles have become an intrinsic part in quality and financially rewarding social careers.

 

Thus, students specialize at AUNOHR to professionalize in the field of:

• Tools of methodological social and political analysis.
• Coordinating programs and civil networks.
• Innovating nonviolent means and methods of peaceful confrontation.
• Developing plans and work mechanisms.
• Strengthening and organizing active groups.
• Social dialogue and non-violent communication.
• Human rights electronic and technical means of communication.
• Peaceful movements.
• Human rights campaigns.
• Working at the level of international human rights conventions.
• Advocacy, lobbying, negotiation and promotion of reconciliations.
• Acting in the framework of displacement, migration and conflict milieu.
• Self-implementation; guiding an institution toward adopting the approach of justice and non-violence.