Nonviolent Change Journal

Vol. XIX, No.2 Winter, 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 15-17, at the Hilton in Chicago , just before the annual O.D. Information exchange. We hope to feature a facilitator who has brought Geeks and Turks together for reconciliation in Cyprus. Please send your proposals for presentations to Don Cole. The usual format is for presentations of up to 15 minuets followed by discussion, but that can be varied. The agenda will be set by the participants and updated through the meeting, with preference given to already scheduled presentations. For more information, or to volunteer to present, contact Done Cole Organization Development Institute, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, DonWCole@aol.com, www.odinstitute.org

The 34th Annual O.D. Information Exchange will be May 16-20 at the Hilton in Chicago . The details of exact location are not yet available, For more information, contact Don Cole,(address and phone above).

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 (address and phone above)

The World Peace Conference - 2005 is in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, January 5-9, with the central theme, "Violence, Nonviolenve and World Peace. The meeting is organized by the International Society for Intercultural Studies and Research in collaboration with IPPNO, International Philosophers for Peace. For information contact Dr. Glen T. Martin, IPPNO President at gmartin@radford.edu, www.radford.edu/~peace/ippno/, or Dr. Santi Nath Chattopadhyay,Executive Director, ISISAR & Programme Director, World PeaceCongress-05 Contact Office, 22, S.K.Deb Road (4th Bye Lane), Kolkata-700 048, W.B., India, Phone: 3325215753/30931506, cal_isisar@hotmail.com, santinathchattopadhyay@yahoo.com.

Nonviolent Communication Workshop with Rachelle Lamb, former president of the BC Network for Compassionate Communication, - Ottawa, Ontario, January 22 & 23. For more information call (866)480-7122 or visit www.bcncc.org

The First African Conference on Peace Through Tourism is at InterContinental Lusaka Hotel - Lusaka, Zambia, February 6-11. The meeting is Organized by the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) In partnership with the Africa Travel Association (ATA), and Hosted by the Zambia Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources. The theme is: Tourism: Pathway to a Peaceful and Prosperous Africa. The aim is: To develop a 21st Century Vision for African Tourism. For more information, Contact: IIPT: mailto:conference@iipt.org, www.iipt.org, ATA: Africatravelasso@aol.com, http://www.africa-ata.org/, Zambia Tourism Board: mwingacc@yahoo.com, http://www.zambiatourism.com/

A national conference on Contemplative Practices and Education: Making Peace in Ourselves and in the World . The conference will be held at Teachers College, Columbia University, February 11-13, 2005. For details contact Janet Gerson, Clifford Hill or Tony Jenkins, Conference Coordinators, Peace Education Center, Teachers College - Box 171, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, (212)678-8116, www.tc.edu/PeaceEd.

The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural and Social Sustainability is at the East-West Center, Hawai'i, February 25-27. The conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across the diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability. For details go to the conference website. http://www.SustainabilityConference.com, or contact Peter Phipps: peter.phipps@sustainabilityconference.com

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

The 13th Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution will be in St. Petersburg, Russia,in May. For details contact Steve Olweean (269)665-9393, solweean@aol.com or ahpweb.org/chi/home.html.

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

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/diterran/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