Nonviolent Change Journal

Vol. XIX, No. 3, Spring, 2005

Nonviolent Change Journal helps to network the peace community: providing dialoguing, exchanges of ideas, articles, reviews, reports and announcements of the activities of peace related groups and meetings, reviews of world developments relating to nonviolent change and resource information concerning the development of human relations on the basis of mutual respect.

The 19th Annual Meeting of the Research/Study Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change , will be May 16-17, just before the annual O.D. Information exchange, at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville Hotel in Greater Chicago, Illinois. If you want to stay overnight, Jeannette Swist, RODP , Chair of The 35 th Annual O.D. Information Exchange has arranged a special room and meal package for us at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville. A single room with full breakfast and lunch buffet and two refreshment breaks is $143 per night in a single room and $95 per person in a double room. To reserve a room you need to send the Hilton Lisle/Naperville Hotel, 3003 Corporate West Drive, Lisle, IL 60532 or Tel: (800)552-2599 booking code ODI one night's rent. You can make your reservation on line at: www.lislenaperville.hilton.com . The Hilton will hold our block of room until April 16 th . For more information, contact Organization Development Institute, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, DonWCole@aol.com, www.odinstitute.org. Let Don know if you would like to present. The meeting will open with a get to know each other session on Sunday evening that will set the initial agenda. The group will adjust the agenda as the meeting proceeds, with preference given to presentations and discussions already scheduled.

The 34th Annual O.D. Information Exchange will be May 16-20 at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville Hotel in Greater Chicago, Illinois. For more information, contact Don Cole,(address and phone above) or on the web go to: O.D. Institute Homepage .

The 25rth O.D. World Conference and O.D. Networks World Wide will be at July 18-23 in Cyprus. The exact details of location are not yet available. For details contact Don Cole at O.D. Institute.

The Conference, Muslims' Experiences of Globalization is in Atlanta, GA, April 1-2, hosted by the Middle East Centre for Peace, Culture and Development at Georgia State University and the Georgia Middle East Studies Consortium (GMESC). The conference will be organized around three themes: 1)The Transformation of Muslim Societies: Issues related to (a) economic and structural changes, (b) state-building and democracy, and (c) cultural formations in the last thirty years; 2) Intellectual Production: How Muslim intellectuals conceptualize the experiences of globalization in regard to issues of (a) science and technology, (b) gender relations (Islamic feminism), and (c) theories of state, democracy, and human rights; 3) Transnational and Diaspora Muslim Communities: (a) How new Muslim immigrant communities are transforming Western societies as well as their own homelands, (b) How Muslim "cybercommunities" shape, inform, and negotiate the boundaries of public sphere. For information contact Prof. Behrooz Ghamari, Dept. of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 30312, bghamari@gsu.edu.

Building Democracy, Participation and Peace by Peaceful Means: Strategies and Actions for Social Transformation and Nonviolent Struggle - Learning from and Building Local and Global Movements, is a training program in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, April 18 - 22, 2005 under the sponsorship of Transcend. For details go to: www.transcend.org, or contact Jasmina Francetic, Training Coordinator: jasmina@patrir.ro.

The 781st Wilton Park Conference: Arab-West Policy Dialogue on Common Security and Confidence Building is in Sussex, Great Britain, April 25-28. The meeting is focusing on such questions as: How can dialogue between the Arab region and the West on security needs be strengthened? Can the EuroMed dialogue improve relations between the Arab world and the West on the lines of the earlier East-West CSCE/OSCE process? How can issues such as weapons of mass destruction, internal instability, minority rights, democratic values and transformation best be addressed? Can confidence building measures be a catalyst? For further information, go to http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/web/welcome.asp.

The Third International Conference on Human Rights titled, "Identity, Difference, and Human Rights " is to be held by Mofid University's Center for Human Rights Studies in Qom, Iran, May 14-15. For more information, contact: M. Moosavi Karimi, Director of Center for Human Rights Studies, Mofid University, Sadoogi Boulevard, Mofid Square, Qom, Iran, P.O.Box:37185-3611, Tel:0098-251-2925764, CHRS@Mofidu.ac.ir or CHRSMU@hotmail.com , www.Mofidu.ac.ir/conference.

Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) conference: "Beyond Talk: Tools and Training for Advocacy and Social Action " is in Portland, OR, May 10-22. For details contact Tod Sloan: sloan@psysr.org.

Preventing War - Creating Perspectives for Peace, an International Meeting for Peace Workers and Interested People for the Experiment "Monte Cerro " in Tamera/Portugal, May 15 - June 11. For information contact Tamera - Monte do Cerro - P-7630 Colos, Portugal, Ph. +351-283 635 306, tamera@mail.telpac.pt.

The Second Association for Humanistic psychology (AHP ) - Cal State Northidge National Conference: "Opening Hearts", Seeking Peace in a Chaotic World , is June 10-12 at California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA. For details contact Stan Charnofsky, Dept. of Educational Psychology, CSUN, Borthridge, CA 91330 (818)677-2548, stan.charnofsky@csun.edu.

American University's School of International Service, Peacebuilding and Development Summer Institute 2005 offers a variety of courses in three groups, I: June 27-July 1, II: July 5-9, III: July 11-15. For details contact Peacebuilding and development Summer Institute Summer Institute 2005m, School of International Service, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016 (202)885-2014, pcrinst@american.edu, www.american.edu/sis/peacebuilding.

The International Institute on Peace Education 2005, Exploring the Theme of E=MC2: Education = Movement for Constructive Change (educating for peace through the arts), will be in Rhodes, Greece, July 24- 30, hosted by Femme-Art-M/editerran/e (Fam Network) at the University of the Aegean In association with the Peace Education Center, Teachers College Columbia University. IIPE 2005 will focus on education as a movement for constructive social change. Arts methodologies and production processes will be used to examine nonviolent strategies to overcome the global web of violence and warfare. Participants are invited to grapple with urgent global concerns such as ethnic conflict, social disruption and displacement, ecological damage, censorship and repression, human rights abuses and breaches of international law. These will be explored through the lens of innovative arts approaches. As in previous IIPEs, this Institute will draw on the experiences and insights of diverse peace educators from all world regions helping us learn from each other's experiences and strategies. Cultural diplomacy, peace music, political and legislative theater, ecological art, documentary film as an educational tool, peace movement uses of new media technologies, and arts therapies for post-conflict trauma are some of the arts-action strategies for social transformation that will comprise the program. For more information visit www.tc.edu/PeaceEd/iipe, or contact Peace Education Center, Box 171, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, peace-ed@tc.columbia.edu.

Eliyahu McLean and Ezra Weinberg will be teaching a peace-building course , geared towards Jewish people, but open to anyone, "The Netzah, Hod, and Yesod of Peacebuilding: On Becoming a Jewish Peacebuilder," August 1-6: Elat Chayyim - Jewish Spiritual Retreat Center, Accord, NY. For information, contact Eliyahu McLean eliyahu@jerusalempeacemakers.org, Rodef Shalom www.jerusalempeacemakers.org, or info@elatchayyim.org, (800)398-2630 ext. 225, www.elatchayyim.org.

The Second Annual Conference on Conflict Resolution Education, What Works! Innovations in Conflict Resolution Education: Early Childhood to Higher Education is September 28 - October 1 at Columbus, OH. For details contact the Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution, 614-752-9595, www.disputeresolution.ohio.

The 2005 Gandhian Conference on Nonviolence is October 14-15, 2005 Memphis, TN. For details, contact Dr. Peter Gathje, Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN 38104 pgathje@cbu.edu or visit the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence website: www.gandhiinstitute.org.

The Second International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability is in

Hanoi and Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, January, 9-12. This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability. For information go to: http://www.SustainabilityConference.com.