Quick Facts about Costa Rica

• Has been a democracy for over 120 years

• Abolished its army in 1948

• Adult literacy rate over 90%

• Poverty reduced by 55% in the last 29 years

• Costa Rica was ranked safest country in Latin America in 2011

U.N. mandated University for Peace

“To provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with

the aim of promoting among all human beings a spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among

peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping

with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.”

Quick Overview

• UPEACE was mandated by the United Nations in 1980

• 150 graduate students frommore than 50 countries

12 Masters Programmes

• Offices and programs around the world

This course has been designed to build students’ global competency

Positive disposition toward cultural

differences

Multiple language competency

Deep knowledge of the world (history, geography, health, climate, economics, process of globalization)

Source: Fernando Reimers, ‘Educating for Global Competency’

This was an unforgettable week! I would recommend this trip to anyone who wants to grow professionally and personally.

–Justeen JacobiUniversity of San Diego

This course was the perfect tool for learning about a culture different from my own! UPEACE provided me with knowledge that I can take with me and use in my everyday life!

–Alex Russell Nasuha Community Collge

Mohit Mukherjee is the Director of the UPEACE Centre for Executive and Professional Education.

Prior to this position, he served as Education Programme Manager of the Earth Charter Initiative, an international nonprofit organization. He also spent four years in the private sector, at A.T. Kearney, an international management consulting firm.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and did his Master’s at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also taking two courses at Harvard Business School on how to start up, manage, and grow social enterprises.

Mohit MukherjeeUPEACE Centre

Director

www.centre.upeace.org

This was an unforgettable week! I would recommend this trip to anyone who wants to grow professionally and personally.

–Justeen JacobiUniversity of San Diego

This course was the perfect tool for learning about a culture different from my own! UPEACE provided me with knowledge that I can take with me and use in my everyday life!

–Alex Russell University of San Diego