International Peace Conference - Now More Than Ever: May 2002, Russia
Reply-To: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:27:36 +0300 (EEST)
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Subject: International Peace Conference - Now More Than Ever: May 2002, Russia
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
Original sender: Steve Olweean <[email protected]>
International Peace Conference - Now More Than Ever: May
2002, Russia
~ NOW MORE THAN EVER ~
Dear Colleagues,
Enclosed is a notice on the 10th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
CONFLICT RESOLUTION (ICR) held May 9-19, 2002 in St. Petersburg,
Russia (formal conference May 10-15). We also invite you to visit our
Home page at http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html
AT A TIME OF HEIGHTENED UNCERTAINTY AND FEAR, there is a critical need
for new thinking, new vision, new understanding, and new ways of
relating with each other in an increasingly interdependent global
community.
SUPPORT: The Annual ICR Conference has been supported by Former
President Clinton, Former President Yeltsin, St. Petersburg Governor
Jakovlev, and is endorsed by over 60 organizations and universities
internationally. It is listed in numerous international directories
and included as part of the Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society
Calendar.
PARTICIPANTS have come from over 55 countries and all continents,
providing excellent opportunities for important networking contacts
with representatives of many organizations. This event attracts
hundreds of individuals in key positions in their respective societies
who can model and teach skills to many others for practical
application in their personal and professional lives.
We invite your participation and APPRECIATE YOUR SHARING THIS
INFORMATION with colleagues and relevant organizations to assist in
raising awareness of this important event.
The 2002 PROGRAM is currently being developed and we continue to
receive presentation proposals. In addition to the variety of topics
being addressed are an increased emphasis on the dynamics of terrorism
and "The Other" throughout the world, and on issues in the Middle
East.
Presentation samples will be posted in the near future, and the full
version will be available prior to the conference date. In the
meantime, the previous conference program, a full list of endorsing
and sponsoring organizations, registration and proposal forms, costs,
and logistical details are available through our web site. The
previous program can provide insight into the content and format of
the conference. Our web site also offers Information on other efforts
of CBI, including the "Catastrophic Trauma Recovery Project" being
established to provide trauma treatment training to local relief
workers in the Balkans and Middle East.
** A longer, full conference announcement, as well as a list of
endorsers, forms, and logistics are available by separate e-mail, fax,
or land mail upon request.
The program has a broad context and FOCUSES on ALL ASPECTS AND LEVELS
OF CONFLICT from a relational perspective - from the intrapersonal -
to the interpersonal - to relationships between groups, organizations,
cultures, religious traditions, and societies - and ultimately between
us and other species. The experiential nature of the Conference is
viewed as one of it's most important qualities. The formation of a
CROSS-CULTURAL INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY is a living laboratory of sorts
that is essential for engaging and integrating formal learning from
workshops.
A strength lies in the blending and interfacing of DIVERSE APPROACHES,
PERSPECTIVES, and CONTEXTS, which allows for further development and
creative application in ones own work. Presentations offer a wide
range, including well-defined curriculums and training programs,
creative exploratory research, and in-process experiences. In
addition, the MULTI-DISCIPLINARY, MULTI-CULTURAL OPEN FORUM provides a
rich intellectual environment for dynamic dialogues that examine new
ways of conceptualizing and perceiving conflicts, differences, and
issues of personal/global security, as well as managing them. It is
designed as both a teaching and learning experience for presenters and
participants alike.
There are invaluable opportunities during and after the conference for
NETWORKING and meeting with colleagues and relevant organizations from
around the world. Each year dynamic collaborations and associations,
whether concrete action-oriented, education and training, or research
in nature, have come out of the contacts at this conference. Some of
these activities directly involve the conference sponsors, but many
are the initiative and work of those who simply meet there. CBI
continues support of these efforts through linking them and providing
resources and training materials via our web site.
The OFFICIAL PROGRAM LANGUAGES are English and Russian. Interpreters
are assigned to each presentation and event, and are also available in
the general conference milieu. The conference is held just outside St.
Petersburg at a Russian resort hotel located on the Finnish gulf.
Historically, the ICR Conference has been funded solely by
registrations. All participants - including presenters - pay their own
expenses for attending. By design, hard-currency registrations are
used to help subsidize costs of low income participants from
economically impoverished societies. This formula has allowed us to
produce now 10 successful, truly cross-cultural, annual events.
Members of endorsing organizations receive a $100 discount on full
hard-currency registrations. Shorter or longer stays are also
available (see registration form re: this and other discounts).
After reading through this material we encourage you to contact us
directly at our e-mail, fax, or phone numbers with any questions or
requests for more details and background information.
Thank you in advance for your help in sharing this information. The
Annual ICR Conference continues to grow significantly in impact and
global participation. We are always appreciative of the many
individuals and organizations internationally who assist in it's
success by publicizing this event throughout the year, and to our
expanding list of official endorsers.
IN THE MIDST OF RISING TERRORISM AND STRUGGLING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS on
the formal governmental level, the world faces a historic choice
between old, failing paradigms of separateness and "the other," or
recognition of our common, elemental interdependence as human beings.
We invite you and your colleagues to join us this May in St.
Petersburg for the 2002 10th Annual International Conference on
Conflict Resolution to endorse the power of nonviolence in creating a
universal culture of peace, and share effective methods to achieve it.
Sincerely,
Steve Olweean, Director
Conference Co-coordinator
Common Bond Institute
12170 S. Pine Ayr Drive, Climax, Michigan 49034 USA
Ph/Fax: 616-665-9393 [email protected]
Home web page: http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html
Annual ICR Conference: http://ahpweb.org/cbi/icr.html
_____________________________________________________________
10th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
"Sharing Tools for Personal/Global Harmony"
AT A TIME OF PROFOUND CRISIS - a time that calls for new thinking, new
vision, new understanding, and new ways of relating in an increasingly
interdependent global community.
May 9 - 19, 2002 St. Petersburg, Russia
(Formal conference program May 10-15)
Sponsored by Common Bond Institute (USA) & HARMONY Institute
(RUSSIA), in cooperation with Association for Humanistic Psychology
~ Continuing Education Credits available ~
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY / MULTI-CULTURAL conference that has received
support from Former US President Clinton, Former Russian President
Yeltsin, St. Petersburg Governor Jakovlev, and is endorsed by over 60
leading-edge organizations and universities internationally - open to
any individuals interested in developing and practicing personal /
professional skills in conflict resolution and promoting a culture of
peace in the world.
Part of the Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society Calendar.
This joint US/Russian sponsored event FOCUSES ON all aspects of
conflict resolution and transformation, from the intrapersonal - to
the interpersonal - to relationships between groups, organizations,
cultures, spiritual traditions, and societies - and ultimately between
us and other species.
PRESENTATIONS explore conflict resolution within diverse contexts,
including: Arts/Creativity, Cross-cultural/Ethnic,
Ecology/Environmental, Economics/Business, Education, Gender,
Global/Regional Conflict, Health/Healing arts, Human Rights,
Organizational/Community, Psychotherapy, and Transpersonal/Spiritual.
PRESENTERS REPRESENT DIVERSE DISCIPLINES AS WELL AS CULTURES,
including psychology, education, ecology & environmental sciences,
peace activism, social work, sociology, medical & healing arts,
organizational and community development, civil service, spirituality,
philosophy, diplomacy, government, journalism, business & economics,
law, the physical sciences, and the arts.
MANY OPPORTUNITIES are offered for hands-on practical skills training,
sharing of programs and curriculums, intensive dialogues on theory and
perceptions of conflict and resolution, networking and collaboration,
and a powerful intentional community experience. Participants have
come from over 55 countries and all continents, providing excellent
opportunities for important networking contacts with representatives
of many organizations. The program attracts hundreds of individuals in
key positions in their respective societies who can model and teach
these skills to many others.
6 DAYS of all-day institutes, workshops, roundtables, and community
meetings.
55 day-program sessions, and a full slate of evening sessions and
social/cultural events.
4 DAYS of pre- and post-conference cultural events, tours, and
professional visits and meetings, in St. Petersburg.
NOW MORE THAN EVER, we invite you to join us in endorsing non-violence
in the world and sharing the methods to achieve it.
~ CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS ~
Submissions requested by: 3-1-2002
(Early submission is recommended for best choice of sessions.
Submissions after this date are considered for evening or replacement
sessions as space permits)
For information, proposal and registration forms, CONTACT:
COMMON BOND INSTITUTE (USA),
Steve Olweean, Co-coordinator
12170 S. Pine Ayr Drive, Climax, Michigan 49034
Ph/Fax: 616-665-9393 E-mail: [email protected]
Full details available at WEB SITE:
http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html
--
==============================================================
MINELRES - a forum for discussion on minorities in Central&Eastern
Europe
Submissions: [email protected]
Subscription/inquiries: [email protected]
List archive: http://www.riga.lv/minelres/archive.htm
==============================================================