Nonviolent Change Journal

UPCOMING EVENTS

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Research/Study Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change has been moved to the Unisys Conference Center, Lisle, IL, May 16-18, 2004 just before the annual O.D. Information Exchange.

Please send suggestions for the program for the meeting, including willingness to volunteer, to Steve Sachs or Don Cole. A preliminary agenda will be put together by the participants on Sunday evening, which will be updated as the meeting unfolds, with some preference for previously scheduled presentations and discussions. So far, expected participants include a Nigerian delegation led by Pete Njoku, founder of the Nigerian O.D. Network, who will discuss how to eliminate the cast system and slavery without violence. Steve Sachs is considering leading a discussion on "Energy, Ecology and Getting to Peace."

There is no registration charge for this interorganizational meeting. (O.D. Institute pays the costs as a contribution toward a nonviolent world). Lodging and meals can be arranged through Don Cole at O.D. Institute (address and phone above) or by contacting Judy Stachon, Conference Services Manager, the Unisys Conference Center, 2611 Corporate West Dr. Lisle, IL, 60532 (630)505-7522. Lodging with breakfast and coffee breaks will be about $117 a day. Registration for those not staying at the conference center will be $28 a day. including lunch and coffee breaks.

The 34th O.D. Information Exchange is taking place at the Unisys Conference Center, 2611 Corporate West Dr. Lisle, IL, 60532 (630)505-7522, May 18-21. Contact Don Cole at O.D. Institute (address and phone on p. 2) for details, registration and lodging arrangements. Lodging can also be made directly or by contacting Don Cole, don@odinstitute.org (440)729-7419.

The 24rth O.D. World Conference and O.D. Networks World Wide will be at Law University of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania. July 12-17. For details contact Don Cole at O.D. Institute (address and phone above).

Two Special PHENND Gatherings: (COOL and Idealist) are the Learning the Lessons from Social Movements Mini-Summit, January 23-24, and the 20th annual COOL Idealist National Conference, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) on March 1 2-14. For more information, contact Hillary Aisenstein and Ariane Hoy, ariane@idealist.org, http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/events/2004conf.html

Symposium 2004, Mount Mary College: "Transforming Conflict: Women's Ways of Leading" is in Milwaukee, WI, March 5-6. For information contact the Conference Chair: Dr. Mary Ellen Kohn, kohnm@mtmary.edu, http://www.mtmary.edu/symposium.htm.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security are organizing the 2003 Peacebuilding and Human Security Consultations in Ottawa at the Department of Foreign Affairs, October 22-24. For information: David Lord, Coordinator, Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee, 1, rue Nicholas Street, #510, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7B7, Canada. (613)241-3446 cpcc@web.ca; www.cpcc.ottawa.on.ca.

The International Conference on Peace Education for Contemporary Concerns is in Jaipur, India, January 5-7. For details Prof. Naresh Dadhich, Jaipur Peace Foundation, 2-k-12,Jawahar Nagar,Jaipur-302004(INDIA), tel: 91-141-2652846, ndadhich@datainfosys.net or NDADHICH@sancharnet.in, www.jaipurpeacefoundation.com.

United for Peace and Justice is collaborating with thousands of organizations around the world in organizing The Global Day of Action Against War and Occupation around the world on Saturday, March 20. More information is in the Ongoing Activities section below. For details, contact UFPJ at: (212)868-5545, m20info@unitedforpeace.org, http://www.unitedforpeace.org.

The 5th Symposium of Peace Education in Korea and Japan will be held in Korea, April 1-3. For information contact Prof. Dr. Soon-Won Kang, Hanshin University, Korea, kangsw@hanshin.ac.kr.

Interaction 2004: Canada's largest CR Conference is in Kiitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. For details contact Conflict Resolution Network, Canada, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G6, Canada, (519)885-0880, www.crnetwork.ca.

"The Education Project" of the first Universal Forum of Cultures is to be held for 5 months in Barcelona, April 24-Sept 22. Information on this UNESCO approved forum is available at www.barcelona2004.org. There are 10 themes, including Theme Three: Common values in cultural diversity: Education for Peace and Cohabitation, Theme Nine: Human Rights and Democracy: Education for active citizenship - to be coordinated by Yvonne Hebert, U of Calgary, Coordinator of the Citizen Education Research Network at www.canada.metropolis.net/cern-pub/index.html), or go to www.barcelona2004.org.

The 5 Conference Series: Promoting The Consciousness Of Peace, Forgiveness, And Reconciliation, by Common Bond Institute, 12170 S. Pine Ayr Drive, Climax, MI 49034, Ph/Fax: (269)665-9393, solweean@aol.com, http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html (Conference project goal discussed below in "Ongoing Activities"):

1) The First International Conference on the Human Right to Peace, May 5-8, Bilbao, Spain, sponsored by the Basque Government and Common Bond Institute.

2) 12th 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. sponsored by Common Bond Institute and Harmony Institute in Cooperation with the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 9-19.

3) The Ecology of War and Peace, May 9-19, St. Petersburg, Russia, sponsored by Common Bond Institute, HARMONY Institute, and co-sponsored by the Jane Goodall Institute and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. A parallel youth conference, held during the ICR Conf., addressing issues of negative stereotypes, prejudice, demonizing, and dehumanizing "The Other."

4) The Alchemy of Democracy: Restoring Soul to Culture, June 13-18, Asilomar, California, sponsored by Praxis Peace Institute and co-sponsored by Common Bond Institute, Association for Humanistic Psychology, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Institute for Imaginal Studies, The Politics of Trust, Yes! Magazine, and Youth for Environmental Sanity.

5) The Consciousness of Peace, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Antidotes for the Energy of Fear, Revenge and Victimization, August 5-8, Cleveland, Ohio, Sponsored by Common Bond Institute and Pathways Foundation for Peace and Healing, and co-sponsored by the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

This last in the series of conferences is designed to completely focus on the core theme, pulling together, maximizing, and adding to the cumulative products of the 4 previous conferences. Among other products, it will produce publications and a documentary, and include planning and development meetings on methods of applying the results of the series. An international network to promote on-going future collaboration and proactively advance the work of the conferences will be established and made up of participants and key contacts developed over the course of the process.

12th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution: Sharing tools for Personal/Global Harmony, sponsored by Common Bond Institute and Harmony Institute in Cooperation with the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 6-16. For details contact (616)665-9393, solween@aol.com, ahpweb.org.

14th International Peace Congress, Nigeria, West Africa is May19-24, in the City built on rock, Abeokuta at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta,Ogun State,Nigeria. For information contact: iaeworldpeace@YAHOO.COM, http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/mercieca.html or: http://www.ieaworldpeace.4t.com.

International Peace research Association Conference, Peace Education Commission: "Pathways to Peace: Educational Issues in the Context of Globalization" is in Sopron, Hungary, July 5-9. For information contact B. Jeannie Lum, University of Hawai'i, at Manoa, College of Education, Wist 109, 1776 University Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816 (808)956-9100, jpum@hawaii.edu

The first summer session of "World Peace Programme", will be launched at the Townshend International School in the Czech Republic, a new university-level education project, July 20 to August 10. Professors and lecturers drawn from the original team of the World Order Studies Programme, offered in Switzerland from 1989-1998, will be spearheading the project's course. For details contact: Tel: +49 163 278 38 37, info@worldpeaceprogramme.org.

The Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles 6-9 July 6-9. For information, go to: http://www.Diversity-Conference.com.

The 2004 International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE): " Human Security: Building a Culture of Peace" will be hosted by Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, and organized in association with the Peace Education Center of Teachers College Columbia University, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 1-7. IIPE 2004 will focus on the concept of "human security" as a means for working towards a culture of peace. For details, contact Peace Education Center, Box 171, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, jenkins@tc.columbia.edu or Sabanci University, Orhanli, Tuzla, 81474 Istanbul, Turkey, mailto:iipe@sabanciuniv.edu, or on the web at: http://www.tc.edu/PeaceEd/htmls/iipe.htm>www.tc.edu/PeaceEd/htmls/iipe.htm.

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