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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 solweean@aol.com
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: solweean@aol.com
Full details available at WEB SITE: http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html
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