Welcome to Colombo College of Politics
Developing nations are on a quest to establish a prosperous and stable nation state through the pursuance of State reorganization, the pursuance of Democracy for stabilization of the state and the society, good governance and sustainable development. Nevertheless, there seems to be very little consensus on what these relevant key concepts are and on how to actually put them into operation within societies.
As a result of this the peaceful coexistence of different communities within a plural democracy, the preservation of human rights and the creation of a humane society through a participatory and consensual social movement have become a diminishing dream in the present day societies of these developing nations.
This inability has not only brought human made disasters to the nation states but the spillover effects of these disasters have had a serious impact on the neighboring states of these nations and thee world community.
Amongst the practical solutions in dealing with this challenges education has become a primary investment in developing a coherent and consistent policy frame work for developing a stable society.
The Colombo School of Politics was established in 2006 with a stated mission of dealing with the above mentioned challenges and finding multiple options to overcome these challenges through alternative multidisciplinary education programs.
The Colombo school of politics aims to introduce a number of study programs to equip participants with the knowledge, skills and necessary attitudes to critically analyze and design systems in developing a prosperous and stable; state and society.
The educational programs offered by the Colombo School of Politics provide an overview of the governance and democratization process in relation to the socio-economic and political dynamics within the country in particular and also in the context of global governance.
In achieving these goals the Colombo School of Politics tends to deviate from the traditional role of educational institutes and offer multidisciplinary courses that allow the participants to gain comparative knowledge on different theoretical insights and the different ‘facets' of practice relating to governance, politics and development in a manner that it also explains the implications that they have in a global and regional context.
Currently the Colombo School of Politics is conducting a six months Certificate Course in Political Empowerment consisting of twelve modules:
- State and Law
- Political Philosophy
- Development Issues
- Media Education
- International Relations
- Conflict Studies
- History
- Leadership and Personality Development
- Strategic Management
- IT and Practical Communications
- Political parties of Sri Lanka
- Democracy and Good Governance
- Art and Politics
- Political sociology.
The goal of this certificate course is to equip young leaders who are engaged in politics with knowledge and information that is essential to deal with the challenges of the 21 st century politics. The Colombo School of Politics anticipates that by following this course the participants of the Colombo School of Politics will find answers for the following areas:
The challenges of developing stable nation state.
- The challenges of developing a stable economy within the context of prevailing fiscal globalization.
- The Challenges of developing appropriate knowledge, attitudes and a set of behaviors to achieve the above two goals.
The expected outcomes of conducting this course are several folds:
- Equip the participants with an understanding of a ‘new world' together with local trends through multidisciplinary knowledge.
- Make the students into efficient and productive political managers by helping them to expand their decision making ability continuum.
Establish confidence among participants to deal with the outer world through consensus, cooperation and solidarity,
Develop set of political leaders who believe in human rights and responsibilities on the line of human dignity, empathy, rule of law and transparency,
After two years of conducting this certificate course in Political Empowerment with able support of a highly qualified faculty the Colombo School of politics hopes to offer a new set of stand alone courses, diploma courses and masters programs in collaboration with foreign universities. The streams that are anticipated under the present effort will represent three main streams:
- Public Policy and public management
- Law and Development studies
- Conflict Transformation and Human Rights
Under the Public Policy and Public Management the Colombo school of politics has identified several key areas have a demand in Sri Lanka as well as in South Asian region. These areas are governance, democratization and public policy in relation to local and regional development, women, gender, youth and child in a development context.
In Law and Development studies CSP has identified that areas such as law and social inquiry, law and diplomacy in economic development, law and international treaties, economy and law have a greater demand for efficient policy making and implementation.
In the area of Conflict Transformation and Human Rights; conflict resolution and human security, human rights development and social justice, human rights and rule of law have been identified as the main themes we will offer.
The goals of these three study programs are; to create a wider usage of a multidisciplinary approach in policy making, to expand the capacity of multidisciplinary research and the research community in order introduce a new multidisciplinary approach in policy making and to establish broader recognition for multidisciplinary studies in state and society building.
