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Conflicts are a reality that can have considerable consequences in many different types of situations. The I International Congress, being organised by the Campus for Peace and Solidarity, endeavours to provide a meeting and exchange point for professionals that facilitate the resolution of conflicts. The event will centre on the importance of managing conflicts, whether they occur in everyday life or in another context, and will mark the initiation of knowledge networks specialising in the resolution of conflicts in various fields: law, human rights, domestic violence, mobbing, bullying, armed gangs, armed conflicts, commercial conflicts, mediation, studies and research on conflictology, the environment, religion and peace. More than 200 people interested in conflictology from around the world will participate in what will be the first meeting point of this type to take place in Spain. Some of the confirmed congress' speakers include Imma Tubella, rector of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC); Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former UNESCO director general and current president of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace; Ian MacDuff, director of the New Zealand Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Wellington (New Zealand), and Nelsa Curbelo, director of the SER-PAZ Corporation (Ecuador).

The Campus for Peace and Solidarity –the NGO's university– aims to promote training, research and sensibility through information technology. From a university point of view, the institution makes use of a pioneering educational methodology that relates and enables people and organisations around the world to improve their humanitarian and solidarity tasks. The Campus for Peace and Solidarity makes its virtual campus available to universities, NGOs and humanitarian organisations, with the objective of giving them the capacity to provide their training programmes in any language and at any place and time.

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