If you believe that peace is possible, I want you to know that it is. You just need to know how!
LaDotta's mission is to help you get that knowledge
What LaDotta offers
LaDotta offers courses, masterclasses, coaching, mentorship
programmes & printable, as well as resourced membership in
a pro-peace online community of people who have decided
to be the change they want to happen!
Change starts with LaDotta — educate yourself and others!
Courses & Masterclasses
Check out the list of courses and masterclasses offered by LaDotta as it grows. We start small but will eventually provide masterclasses on different topics, as well as courses from basic to advanced, and hands-on, how-to and know-how courses. We will also develop courses and masterclasses on members demand. See fuller description below.
Coaching & Mentorship
If you find yourself in doubt, confused, in need of change, questioning your sanity or that of our leaders, or just need som help thinking and re-thinking your thesis idea, in want of developing your conceptualisation of peace, or need a reading list LaDotta can help you. For more information see below.
LaDotta Community
There are very few sanctuaries left for people who are pro-peace to come together, discuss, learn and develop a sense of belonging and community around the quest for peace. LaDotta Community aims high, and wants to become such a sanctuary for knowledge, support and development of ideas. Membership also gives access to learning and reflection, materials, resources and much more.
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MY VISION
To inspire and empower those who want change
I want to help people around the world develop a sense of hope for a better world, one better educated person at the time. I want to show people that it is possible to think, speak and do politics of peace differently. To inspire people and empower them for change — to help them become the change they desire.
LaDotta means ‘the learned.’ The ultimate goal is to make us all learned on the politics of peace.
I am convinced that war is un-necessary, and that cooperation trumps war. 30 years of research and teaching peace, development and interstate relations have confirmed that war is a choice not a given.
Courses & Masterclasses
LaDotta offers courses on university level, from very basic to advanced and even courses for non-university professionals — none of which require particular pre-course knowledge.
The masterclasses goes into some depth on a particular issue, event or case. The main objective is to contextualise it, de- and reconstruct the politics involved and offer a peace research perspective on it.
Coaching & Mentorship
LaDotta offers short-term coaching, i.e. help with specific problem solving, as well as mentorship, a long-term commitment for professional and personal development. LaDotta does not offer supervision to students, however, but may help students as well as seasoned researchers to think creatively around their subject of interest.
Sometimes we need someone to talk to. When faced with a challenge we have to tackle to be able to move on, to corroborate a thought, in search of inspiration or just require a little assuring push to do what we really want to do. Whether you are a peace professional, a student, a writer or just a regular citizen, coaching might help you get moving. Coaching is ideal for students, in need of a quick check or a brainstorming of ideas, and for seasoned researchers in need of a relatively quick entry point, literature suggestions or theme-based lecture plans.
Mentorship however is intended for those who for different reasons want to have long-term support or need a sounding board for processes of change or drawn-out transition periods. LaDotta is available for personal development, when transitioning from a life style based on colonial structures of economic violence, to peace oriented ways of organising life.
LaDotta coaching & mentorship might turn out to be essential to a diplomat finding her or himself in unchartered terrains and unknown ways of envisioning peace; a journalist or author needing a sparring partner to develop their ability to thinking peace differently; a soldier in the service of the world community needing a briefing before deployment.
LaDotta Community
For decades, even centuturies or in fact even millennia, peace watchers —activists, researchers, musicians, authors, student — met, discussed, thought out loud, suggested, protested and dissented in the public space and in private homes. After the internet revolution we seem to have lost such spaces, being relegated to the reality of fragmentation on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
One crucial objective behind the creation of LaDotta Community is to offer such a space to meet, discuss become more learned and bring knowledge and alternatives back into our everyday real life communities.
It is hard being pro-peace, particularly if you are the one and only among family, friends and colleagues. LaDotta Community offers a space for replenishment and inspiration, learning and growing together with others who are also the odd ones out in their pro-peace stance.
Through the membership you access all the resources, courses, masterclasses, live sessions and more that LaDotta offers.
Let's make this one of the best virtual spaces for peace seekers!
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
M. K. Gandhi (from Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, chapter 18 on education
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