Explore our comprehensive diploma programs to learn more about a ‘Diploma in Social Innovation‘ or a ‘Global Leadership Diploma.’ Stand-alone courses (which also count toward the diplomas) are listed below.
Upcoming Online, Live Virtual & Onsite Courses:
Online courses focus on asynchronous learning, but include weekly opportunities to come together with your classmates, live virtual workshops emphasize the virtual classroom experience with complementary asynchronous materials, and onsite courses take place at the University for Peace in Costa Rica.
- Organizational Happiness Certification – October 24, 2025 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Skills for Effective Negotiations – October 25, 2025 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- High Performance Teams: Embracing our differences – October 25, 2025 – ONSITE
- High-Performance Teams: Embracing our Differences – October 28, 2025 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Tackling Finance in the Social Sector: From Fundraising to Impact Investment – October 28, 2025 – ONLINE
- Designing Your Life: Innovating from the Inside Out– January 13, 2026 – ONLINE
- Educating in Changing Times: Reflect, Rethink and Rebuild – January 27, 2026 – ONLINE
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Social Change – February 3, 2026 – ONLINE
- Regenerative Leadership – February 24, 2026 – ONLINE
- Positive Leadership – March 3-4, 2026 – ONSITE
- Gross Global Happiness – March 6-8, 2026 – ONSITE
- Monitoring & Evaluation Fundamentals: Measuring Outcomes & Impact – March 24, 2026 – ONLINE
- Design Thinking – April 21, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Tackling Finance in the Social Sector: From Fundraising to Impact Investment – May 12, 2026 – ONLINE
- Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Social Change – July 7, 2026 – ONLINE
- Global Citizenship Education – July 21, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Regenerative Leadership – July 28, 2026 – ONLINE
- Positive Leadership – August 4, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Ethical Marketing – August 25, 2026 – ONLINE
- Positive Leadership – September 3-4, 2026 – ONSITE
- Skills for Effective Negotiations – September 5, 2026 – ONSITE
- High-Performance Teams: Embracing our Differences – September 8, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Monitoring & Evaluation Fundamentals: Measuring Outcomes & Impact – September 22, 2026 – ONLINE
- Skills for Effective Negotiations – October 6, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Tackling Finance in the Social Sector: From Fundraising to Impact Investment – October 13, 2026 – ONLINE
- Design Thinking – October 20, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
- Organizational Happiness Certification – November 3, 2026 – LIVE VIRTUAL
All of the above courses count toward our Diploma programs! A ‘Global Leadership Diploma‘ provides the space to develop the skills, creative confidence, and networks needed to approach complex problems in a fast-changing world. A ‘Diploma in Social Innovation‘ brings together the tools, inspiration, and feedback you need to develop and launch a social business, organization, or project or fine-tune one already in progress.
Flexible Start Options
Begin your diploma journey at the time that works best for you — new cohorts start throughout the year!
Each year, the diploma cohorts start on:
- February 1
- April 15
- July 1
- September 15
- November 1
Email us at centre@upeace.org to set up a time to discuss how to start your diploma journey! We’ll send you cohort reminders when you’re registered for one of our diplomas.
We also have a wide variety of workshop offerings that can be organized on demand. They can be presented at your home institution, or if you can provide six participants or more, we’ll gladly organize a special workshop at the University for Peace campus on convenient dates for you and your team.
