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10th
Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution (ICR)
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">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
solweean@aol.com Home
web page:
http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html Annual ICR Conference:
http://ahpweb.org/cbi/icr.html
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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: solweean@aol.com
Full details available at WEB SITE: < http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html
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