"I was struck how closely human emotion is intertwined with
history... as emotion is what is truly behind any conflict, there
will be no solution to conflicts if we leave history out."
~ One of last year’s participants, reflecting on the role
plays used during the workshop.
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The Henry Everett Workshop is now full. Please check back for upcoming workshops.
Workshop Schedule
Trainer Bios
Directions
Readings for the workshop participants
* Do you have experience in mediation, dispute resolution,
or peace-building?
Would you like to learn more
about the deep-rooted identity conflicts that make even simplest
of interest-based conflicts all the more protracted?
Do you want to learn new methods
for such seemingly unresolvable conflicts that use history and memory
as central tools?
Would you like to do so while
meeting and sharing with and hearing from mediators and practitioners
facilitating peace and making strategies for the most difficult
conflicts around the world?
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WHO:
International Center for Conciliation (ICfC)*
WHAT:
ICfC will share its unique methodology through a training session
facilitated by an interdisciplinary team of trainers, mediators, and
facilitators from Cambodia, Israel, Europe and the USA, with work
experience on the issues of history, memory, and social conflict from
around the world.
WHEN: The program will run from 7pm on Friday, October 19th through 5pm on Sunday, October 21st.
WHERE: Downtown Boston, location with a scenic view of harbor
and the city.
WHY: This
workshop is intended for mediators and/or professionals who have completed
basic training and have experience in mediation, conflict resolution,
or peace-building. The training will focus on an alternative method
of mediation, addressing conflict and post-conflict conciliation of
divided societies developed to embrace the complexities of historical
conciliation in identity conflicts. The workshop is designed to be
engaging and interactive and teaches through role-plays, conflicts
from around the world. Some participants will have the opportunity
to present their own projects for group consultations during a clinic.
It is also a workshop built on collaboration and sharing; suggestions
for what you'd like to see on the agenda are welcome.
The workshop will provide all participants with an in-depth view of
the ICfC methodology. Please check back for detailed schedule of the
topics covered (subject to change) and trainer bios after August 1st.
HOW to apply: The registration
fee, $300 is to cover our costs. Apply
online or email dkusa@centerforconciliation.org to receive an application via email.
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Friday, Oct. 19:
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Orientation and dinner at President’s
house
Saturday, October 20 :
8:30am - Breakfast, welcome, and introduction
- What is and what is not historical conciliation?
- What sets identity-based conflict apart from interest-based conflict?
10am - Question No. 1: Why are solutions to future problems sometimes
to be found in the past?
Why history and memory? Why does it matter?
- Beginning a Process of Mediating Identities –Guiding
Principles of Historical Conciliation
- Complexity of history ("who's history is it anyway?" When to engage in historical conciliation,
- Role of memory in conflict and conciliation (emotional triggers stemming from historical memory, individual and collective memory, memory and trauma)
- Forward-looking orientation ( history and memory as tools, rather than goals in conciliation)
- Fairness to self and others (tackling "neutrality"; dealing with own values, norms, and emotions; supervision and self-supervision)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Lunch
2pm: Question No. 2: How do cultural values influence the opportunity
for historical conciliation?
- Yaad-Miaar role play on mediated long-term
dialogue between Israeli Jews and Arabs.
4:3pm: Questions and summary
5pm: End of session
8:00 PM - Using art to heal: Light evening session
with a renowned South Indian dancer and choreographer Sangeeta Isvaran (this event takes place at 147 Bay State Road)
Sunday, October 21:
8:30 AM - Breakfast and coffee
9: AM -Question No. 3: What is the role of a mediator/facilitator
in identity conflicts?
The Five Stages of sustained dialogue
- How to go about it?
- ‘Empathy Ladder’: moving from antagonism
to understanding and empathy
- Using spirituality for conciliation
Question No. 4: What can we learn from a story?
- Narrative toolkit
- Getting 'unstuck' in historical conciliation
- Role play utilizing the narrative toolkit
12:30 – 1:30 PM - Lunch
2pm: Question No. 5: What’s the whole story?
- Clinic: participants working in groups with their conflict situations
Question No. 6: How do we know if we’re getting anywhere?
- Evaluating success in a process of historical conciliation
4:30pm: Summary and Evaluation
5pm: End of sessions |
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Hillel
Levine, President and Founder
Dr. Hillel Levine has written numerous books and articles on
ethnic violence and conflict resolution, using an approach that
is both scholarly and empathetic. His use of evocative narrative
and moving life-histories makes his work engaging to non-specialists
and popular audiences while remaining influential among academics
and policy analysts. His research has provided the basis for
an Oscar winning documentary and two of his books are being
made into documentaries and a feature-length dramatization.
Hillel is a popular lecturer, guest columnist in newspapers,
and makes frequent radio and television appearances. The ICfC
is an extension of his life's work into the world of politics
and geopolitical peace.
Hillel, in addition to his international work with the ICfC,
is also a professor of Sociology and Religion at Boston University,
where he has been teaching and researching since 1981.
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Phil Gamaghelyan, ICfC Fellow
Phil is a native of Armenia. He is a lecturer at Tufts Experimental College and the founder and co-director of the Imagine Program for Conflict Transformation. Phil has an MA degree in Conflict Resolution from Brandeis University and training and experience as a conflict group facilitator. Prior to joining ICfC he has worked as a Co-Coordinator of Delegation Leaders Program at Seeds of Peace and as a consultant with Turkish - Armenian Dialogues, the Inter-Communal Violence and Reconciliation project - a joint initiative of The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is also the founder and co-facilitator of a Turkish/Armenian Dialogue Group that unites graduate students from Boston-area universities.
Phil's research is focused on identity-based conflicts. He is the author of the article "Intractability of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: a myth or a reality?' in Peace and Conflict Monitor, July 2005. |
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Brigitt
Keller, ICfC Fellow
Brigitt
Keller holds a law degree from Fribourg University Law School
in her native Switzerland and an LLM in American Law from
Boston University. Originally trained as an educator, she
worked for many years in an after school program with children
of Turkish immigrants. Prior to her law experience, Brigitt
counseled victims of domestic violence and was instrumental
in founding the Swiss National Council of Women’s Shelters.
For many years, she organized and taught workshops on the
prevention of domestic violence, with a special focus on the
prevention of sexual abuse of children. After completing her
LLM at BU, Brigitt worked for the National Police Accountability
Project (NPAP) on a Best Practices Manual, where she serves
as the Executive Director from January 2007.
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Dagmar
Kusa, ICfC Senior Fellow/Program Coordinator
Dasha
received her MA degree in political science from Comenius University
in her native Slovakia. She is pursuing her PhD in political science at Boston University
and at the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
She started off in the field of human rights at the Slovak Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights, dealing mostly with issues relating
to Roma, Hungarian, and Ruthenian minorities in Slovakia. Her
thesis focuses on the role of historic memory in perpetuation
of ethnic conflict and tensions in Central European politics
today. She writes for various international policy journals.
Dasha joined ICfC in January 2005 as the first permanent fellow
and is now in charge of coordinating project activities and
trainings. She has lead workshops in India, Cambodia, Europe,
and the U.S.
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Adam Saltsman,
ICfC Fellow
Adam holds a BA from Colby College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors in his cultural anthropology major and is currently pursuing his PhD in sociology at Boston College. His research interests include post-conflict struggles over cultural space and the distortion of cultural memory, a topic for which he conducted field work in Vietnam in 2004. Prior to his Fellowship with the ICfC, Adam spent time interning with Human Rights Watch where he helped lead a youth human rights advocacy program. He also worked with victims of human trafficking and political refugees being resettled in Austin, Texas. From January 2006 - July 2007, Adam served as a Fellow for the ICfC in Cambodia, bringing together former Khmer Rouge cadre members and survivors from the Cambodian genocide to develop conciliatory dialogue strategies.
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Shanti Sattler, ICfC
Fellow
Shanti Sattler of Eureka, California graduated from the International
Relations and Peace & Justice Studies at Tufts University.
For the past six years she has served as an advisor to several
national service organizations and is the former member and
current co-chair of Youth Service America's National Youth Advisory
Council. During the summer of 2005, she worked with the renowned
author, psychologist and former commissioner on South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Dr. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
in Cape Town, South Africa, assisting with her research on perpetrator
remorse and reintegration into post-apartheid society. In 2006,
she served on the international student planning committee of
the second Women as Global Leaders conference in Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates. She wrote a senior honors thesis in peace
and justice studies on war-affected youth in Northern Uganda
and recently returned from a research trip to Gulu. Shanti joined
the International Center for Conciliation in January of 2006.
She is working for the Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
from July 2007. Email. |
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David Steele, ICfC Senior Associate
Dr. David Steele works with religious, political, and other community actors to effectively facilitate social transformation within situations of conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East, and South Asia. He has developed conflict assessment procedures, facilitated dialogue and problem solving processes, led training workshops in relationship building and conflict resolution, developed cooperative inter-ethnic/sectarian projects in post-conflict reconstruction, established indigenous peacebuilding NGOs, and made oral and written presentations on religion and conflict. Highlights from his experience include: brainstorming and back channel communication between governments during the Kosovo War, training workshops related to the Final Status Talks in Kosovo and for provincial leaders in Iraq, recommendations for reconciliation in Iraq prepared for the US Institute of Peace, a peacebuilding vision and strategy paper for the African Catholic Bishops Conference, and an essay on engaging with religion in conflict situations for top level international negotiators at the Oslo Forum. Previously, Dr. Steele has worked as a program manager at Mercy Corps, as program manager, then interim executive director, at Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, MA, and as a fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, DC. Dr. Steele has a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and is the author of numerous publications. |
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Kim
Vuth, ICfC Facilitator in Phnom Penh
Kim Vuth is a holder of two degrees, Human Resource Management
and English Literature. He is a graduate of a 9-month leadership
training program called Action for Life, organized by Initiatives
of Change International. He taught English for the public school
for two years. He is the initiator of Initiatives of Change
Association-Cambodia, where he served as president for 4 years.
One project that he ran at his association was the Cambodia-Vietnam
Dialogue. Vuth has attended local and overseas trainings related
to peace building. He hopes to take a Masters course in Peace
Studies at the end of this year in Applied Conflict Transformation.
Vuth joined ICfC in March 2007. Vuth believes that through his
work with the ICfC he will be able play the role of a peace
builder for his country and beyond. Email. |
Meals and accommodation:
Dinner on Friday is provided, plus breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Housing and transportation to the training is not provided. A list of area hotels is below.
DIRECTIONS
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Dinner on Friday, Oct. 19:
18 Elba St.
Brookline
MA, 02446
If you're driving: Elba Street is very near the Agganis Arena on Commonwealth Avenue. Once on Commonwealth Ave, turn left (coming from downtown) on Pleasant Street and then right on Elba. Even though street parking is not allowed on the street, we will have special permit for this evening. Please park as close to the house as possible.
Getting there from I-95N:
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Merge onto MA-9 E via EXIT 20A toward BROOKLINE / BOSTON. |
5.6 miles |
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Turn LEFT onto CYPRESS ST. |
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CYPRESS ST becomes SCHOOL ST. |
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SCHOOL ST becomes ASPINWALL AVE. |
0.1 miles |
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Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto ST PAUL ST. |
0.8 miles |
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Turn LEFT onto EGMONT ST. |
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Turn RIGHT onto PLEASANT ST. |
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Turn LEFT onto ELBA ST. |
If you're taking the subay: The closest T-stop is the Pleasant Street stop on the green C line. Cross the street towards Sullivan Tires and walk down Pleasant Street. Elba Street will be the second one on your right.
Workshop location (Saturday, Oct. 20, 8:30am):
Offices of Bingham McCutchen (with beautiful ocean views)
150 Federal Street
Boston, MA 02110-1726
Parking is available for $9 per day at the location .
Directions/Access to Garage (Entrance is on High Street. Garage will be on your left):
Directions/Access to Garage (Entrance is on High Street)
- From the North: From I-93 South and the Tobin Bridge, take Exit 23 (Purchase Street/South Station). Upon exiting, proceed on Purchase Street to the fifth set of traffic lights and turn right onto Summer Street. Turn right at the next set of lights (High Street). Continue on High Street. 1-1/2 blocks. The High Street entrance to the garage is just before Congress Street on the left.
- From the South: Take I-93 north to Exit 20 (Mass. Turnpike/South Station). Stay in left lane. While on this long ramp, follow the sign for South Station/Chinatown. Continue straight (Lincoln Street) and at the 3rd traffic light turn right onto Summer Street. Take next left onto High Street. Continue on High Street. 1-1/2 blocks. The High Street entrance to the garage is just before Congress Street on the left.
- From the West: Take the Mass. Turnpike (I-90) to Exit 24-A (South Station), following signs for Atlantic Avenue. At the 3rd traffic light, turn left onto Summer Street. Continue on Summer Street through 2 traffic lights, turning right onto High Street. Continue on High Street. 1-1/2 blocks. The High Street entrance to the garage is just before Congress Street on the left.
- From Logan Airport: Follow the "Exit" signs from the airport to the Sumner Tunnel. Stay in the left lane of the tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, bear left and follow signs for Government Center. Turn left onto Congress Street. Follow Congress Street to Purchase Street. Turn right onto Purchase Street. Follow Purchase Street to Summer Street. Turn right onto Summer Street. Turn right at the next set of lights (High Street). Continue on High Street. 1-1/2 blocks. The High Street entrance to the garage is just before Congress Street on the left.
Follow signs to the Bingham McCutchen Parking Area (despite any signage stating that the garage is full). Enter the garage, taking a ticket from the machine to open the gate. Drive to the first level. A Standard Parking attendant will park your vehicle after issuing a valet check, to be used for retrieving your vehicle when leaving the building. Please present the ticket to the Bingham McCutchen receptionist, located on the 25th floor, for validating. Upon leaving the garage, present your ticket to the cashier for verification. Insert this ticket into the reader, as displayed, to exit the garage.
- From the MBTA Red Line, Amtrak, and Commuter Rail (South Station): Coming out of South Station onto Summer Street, cross Surface Road and walk one block to High Street. Turn right on High Street and left on Federal Street.
Hotels in the area:
Boston Omni Parker House Hotel
60 School St
Boston, MA 02108
(617) 227-8600
http://www.omnihotels.com/FindAHotel/BostonParkerHouse.aspx
Boston Park Plaza
64 Arlington Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
617) 426-2000
http://www.brooklinecourtyard.com/
Wyndham Hotel
89 Broad Street
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 556-0006
http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/BOSDT/main.wnt
Hyatt Regency Boston
One Avenue de Lafayette,
Boston, MA
617) 912 1234
http://regencyboston.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp?src=tigproperty&iata=HY10
Club Quarters in Boston
161 Devonshire St
Boston, MA 02110 (800)-346-835
http://www.clubquarters.com/home_pub.asp
Millennium Bostonian Hotel Boston
26 North Street
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston MA, 02109-1509
(617)- 523 3600
www.millenniumhotels.com/boston
Courtyard Marriot Brookline
40 Webster St., Coolidge Corner
Brookline MA 02446
(617) 734 1393
http://www.brooklinecourtyard.com/
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