RaceActionNet Action Seminars:

From the problems of crime to the promise of cohesion: working with young people on race, identity and citizenship

Date: 28 June 2006
Location: The Hatton, 51-53 Hatton Gardens, London EC1N 8HN
Cost: RaceActionNet Members £295 + VAT / Other Organisations £395 + VAT

(*Includes full documentation, lunch and refreshments)

Context

Are young people the problem or the solution? They are mostly in the news for all the wrong reasons – as irritants of neighbourhood nuisance, happy-slappers, or gang-based instigators of civic disturbances. But young people are also recognised as promising sources of leadership on citizenship and community cohesion. Funding of £115m is now available to local authorities to ensure young people have access to a wide range of positive activities. How can these funds be used creatively to commission and deliver projects that make an imaginative and lasting contribution to local communities?

Programme:

Radio 4 broadcaster and writer Simon Fanshawe chairs this exclusive action seminar and explores how to reach and engage with young people on race, identity and citizenship – featuring interviews with leading practitioners, discussion groups, and conversations with young British Muslims.

What you’ll get from the day:

1. A framework for commissioning and designing projects with young people on race, identity and citizenship

2. Examples of innovation and good practice from youth work providers

3. An opportunity to network and share ideas and approaches with prospective commissioners and providers of youth work

4. Insight into the identity and experience of young British Muslims.

For further information and a booking form please visit the RaceActionNet website by clicking here (external link).

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Holocaust and Genocide Education Conference

GENOCIDE: The Ultimate Exclusion

Organised by the Aegis Trust

Date: 26 June, 2006
Location: The Aegis Trust

A Conference for Teachers of History, RE, Citizenship, Media and Global Development Education, Citizenship Trainers, Senior Management of Schools, Head Teachers, Governors, LEA advisors, PGCE students, Diversity Officers, Development Workers, Social Inclusion Officers, Equal Opportunities Officers, Museum Educators, Youth Workers, Youth Offending Teams, School of Education Lecturers, Lecturers in Higher Education who teach about the Holocaust and Genocide (History, Religious Studies)

The day will increase understanding and knowledge of the groups murdered in the Holocaust and genocide. It will show how political extremism exploits difference to create division. Most importantly, it will raise awareness of the consequences of exclusion for vulnerable groups. It is hoped that the experience gained will form a springboard for the consideration and implementation of practical steps to support the equal opportunities, diversity and citizenship policies within the school or organisation. It provides networking opportunities.

Click here for booking details and a complete outline of the day (external link).

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Community Arts North West and Exodus announce the:

EXODUS ARTS FESTIVAL 2006

Date: Sat 24 June 2006
Time: 12noon – 6pm
Place: Hulme Park, Stretford Road, Hulme
Admission: FREE

A unique celebration of arts and culture by Greater Manchester’s diverse refugee communities.

Featuring world music and dance from Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Congo,  India,  Kurdistan, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia,  South Africa,  Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe and other countries across the globe.

Plus interactive workshops, children’s activities, international food, world crafts and stalls.

Over 2000 people from both refugee and local communities attended the festival in 2005. Outside of London, Exodus is fast becoming the largest programme of creative and cultural exchange with refugee communities in the UK.

For further information about Exodus, Greater Manchester Refugee Arts Partnership: www.can.uk.com/exodus

Contact Erin McNeaney, Exodus Coordinator, Community Arts North West, T: 0161 234 2987 erin@can.uk.com

 

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Changing Attitudes:
Tackling Crimes of Hate in Europe

Date: 21st June 2006
Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Location: Congress Centre, Great Russell Street
Cost: £50

The conference will draw together international expertise to identify how to tackle crimes of hate and intolerance. This event comes at a time when Londoners in particular are looking at ways to reduce race and faith tensions and intolerance.

Conference Aims:

• Understand the issues raised by hate crime in communities and move the debate forward
• Identify challenges and solutions for the criminal justice sector and communities
• Encourage partnership working across Europe to promote better understanding and share best practice
• Generate networks to improve good practice and effective information exchange amongst statutory and voluntary sectors across London
• Launch a groundbreaking comparative study of responses to hate crime in Europe, and launch good practice guidelines

Who Should Attend?

The event will be of particular interest to:

• Statutory and voluntary criminal justice agencies
• Courts & sentencers
• Local authorities
• Community groups and organisations
• Faith and anti-discrimination groups

Why Attend?

This event is a unique opportunity to hear from internationally renowned experts and to engage with a range of criminal justice agencies, voluntary sector organisations and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who want to find ways of making a safer future for all.

Speakers & Workshop Presenters Include:

• David Scott, Chief Officer, London Probation
• Pat Conway, Director of Services, Northern Ireland Association for Care & Resettlement of Offenders
• Erik Bleich, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Middlebury College, Vermont
• Rev. Dr Mark Montebello O.P., Director Mid-Dlam Ghad-Dawl, Malta
• Kostadinka Todorova, Chairperson, International Initiatives For Co-operation, Bulgaria
• Jurgen Hillmer , Bremen Institut fur Kriminalpolitik, University of Bremen
• Tim Godwin, Chair of the London Criminal Justice Board and Assistant Commissioner-Territorial Policing, Metropolitan Police
• Suhail Aziz, Chair, London Probation Board

Workshops:

You will have the opportunity to attend two workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, to take part in discussions on the following topics:

• Protecting victims by challenging perpetrators' attitudes
• Models of effective working between the Criminal Justice System and voluntary sector
• Refugees as victims of hate
• Tackling hate-motivated extremism and radicalisation
• The Northern Ireland experience of healing communities
• What we can learn from experiences of our European partners - Malta, Bulgaria and Germany
• Criminal Justice responses to crimes of hate in London

For further information, please visit the conference website by clicking here (external link)

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Establishing Peace Through Teaching Peace:
The Role for Peace Education in Today's World

Monday 19th June 2006
House of Lords, Committee room 14b, 6-8pm.London
All Welcome, Admission Free

Joint ARC-WDC Public meeting.

Chair: Lord Peter Archer of Sandwell

Speakers:
Simon Byrne - co-ordinator of School Students Against the War
Jessy Winterbonn - Director of Network for Peace-Building Initiatives (Uganda)
Lucy Cope - co-coordinator of Mothers Against Guns
Benita Hide -Director of British Friends of Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Sala - Oasis of Peace
Speaker from Peace Education Network tbc
Vijay Mehta - ARC/WDC Chair 

For further information contact:
Arms Reduction Coalition (ARC), PO BOX, 42567, London, E1 2WP Tel: 07899953977 / 0208 502 7673, Website: www.arcuk.org

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REFUGEE WEEK
19th to 25th June 2006

Refugee Week is a UK-wide programme of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, and promote understanding about the reasons why people seek sanctuary. This year, Refugee Week will take place from 19th to 25th June.

There is no specific theme for Refugee Week 2006. Instead, the events should be organised around the idea that Refugee Week is a space of encounters between different communities and an opportunity to use more creative ways to address relevant issues and attract new audiences.

Every year during Refugee Week hundreds of arts, cultural and educational events are organised across the UK. In 2005, there were over 450 small and large events, ranging from big music festivals and art exhibitions to political debates, film screenings, conferences, school activities, sports and community events etc

You can show your support for Refugee Week by organising an event in your local area, or supporting existing activities by volunteering or donating.

To find out more about this or to get further information, please visit the
Refugee Week Website

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Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication

By NVC Resolutions

Dates: June 17-18 2006
Location: East London
Cost: £130 waged / £90 concessions

The trainings are two days in length. They:

• Present the concepts & tools used in NVC.
• Will give you sufficient information & practice to start using NVC in your daily life.
• Are challenging, moving, supportive & fun.

Please visit the NVC Resolutions website for more information.

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Conference:
Multicultural Britain: From Anti-Racism to Identity Politics to...?

14 - 15 June 2006
Roehampton University, Southlands College, London, United Kingdom

A two-day conference organised by Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
University of Surrey / Roehampton University

The current debate about multiculturalism in the aftermath of '7/7' needs to be set in its historical context. A key aspect of this history is the move from anti-racist debates and policies towards an emphasis on identity politics and 'faith communities'. Some have encouraged this development and seek to defend it in a more general defence of multiculturalism. Others doubt its capacity to provide long term solutions, especially when 'faith communities' are seen as the main vehicle of identity politics. We want to focus not only on Britain, but also on similar developments across Europe generally, and other parts of
the globe.

The aim of this conference is to debate this history and seek new avenues by bringing together different generations from inside and outside universities so that we can learn from each other's experience and views.

SPEAKERS
Ash Amin
Les Back
Roger Ballard
Michael Banton
Chetan Bhatt
Catherine Hall
Kim Knott
Kenan Malik
Ann Phoenix
John Rex

For more information and conference updates please visit the conference website by clicking here.

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Friendship Towards Peace in Belfast:

The Journey of Ken Newell and Gerry Reynolds

Time: 7pm
Date: Monday 12 June 
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Cost: Free but donations welcome

The story of two key people responsible for reconciliation between Catholic and Protestant commnunties in Northern Ireland. With their biographer: Professor Ronald A. Wells, Calvin College, Grands Rapids USA.

For more information, please visit the St Ethelburga's website by clicking here.

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Be Creative with Conflict

Date: Friday 2 June - Sunday 4 June
Venue: Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

Who is the Course for? 

Those who would like to find ways of making conflict a means for dialogue and growth. Clerks, Elders, Overseers and anyone who might need to intervene in disputes.

The Course

We will look at the nature of conflict, and the attitudes and skills needed to respond constructively, relating Quaker processes to those from mediation and conflict transformation. The second weekend will build upon this, developing your knowledge by applying it to a range of potential and actual conflicts, while considering ways of handling the associated emotions.

What can I hope to gain?

Greater awareness of the causes and course of conflict, confidence in being prepared to address difficult issues in an affirming way (and able to help others to do so), and knowledge of how to access helpful resources.

Course Leaders

Sue Bowers and Marion Wells-Bruges are Quakers who have worked together since 1994 on the training and accreditation of mediators. Both have been involved in setting up and managing community mediation services, and have mediated problems for religious and voluntary organisations. Marion is a community mediator and lay conciliator for the NHS. Sue's mediation work has included community, workplaces, schools and young offenders.

For more details, please visit the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre by clicking here.

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Cooperation Between Mediators in Europe:
Conference in Helsinki, Finland 25th -27th May 2006

TO DISCUSS EUROPEAN COOPERATION Nordic Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management takes initiative to gather representatives from European Networks and organisations to a first meeting in Copenhagen 29th of November. Read this letter which ask for suggestions for names of persons and organisations that can take part.

To: Organisations and Networks working with Mediation in Europe.

About: THE CONFERENCE IN HELSINKI, FINLAND 25TH-27TH MAY 2006

AND DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN MEDIATION FORUM.

The Nordic Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management (NFM) will hold its fourth Conference in Helsinki, Finland from 25th to 28th of May 2006. The last Conference in 2004 gathered 300 participants from Scandinavian and other countries, working within eight mediation areas:

• family,
• schools,
• work place,
• community
• victim-offender,
• civil court,
• commercial relations
• international peace building

This time we have decided to make it a European Conference. We hope this will be the first in a series of Conferences for mediators in Europe. We invite organisations and networks within and across European countries to make suggestions about the programme. At the World Mediation Forum in Switzerland in early September we arranged a workshop where people from 25 European countries participated and gave their useful input.

The Board of the Nordic Forum will be responsible for the Helsinki-Conference. However, we need guidance and will form a small Advisory Group with representatives from key organisations in Europe. Suggestions for people and/or organisations to this Group is also welcomed. The first meeting for the Advisory Group will be 29th of November 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this meeting we also want to discuss how the Helsinki-Conference can be used to develop a network for European mediators.

The style of our Conferences has been: interactive workshops focussed on the need of practioneers as along with solid theory, use of drama and culture, “open space” where anyone can contribute, room for dialogue in small groups and social events. Also, at the Helsinki-Conference we will present the results of a three year project “Nordic Map in Conflict Mediation”. More than one hundred experts have contributed experiences and reflections from the Scandinavian countries. We want to compare this with other countries and learn together.

Finland will take the Chair of the European Union in the second half of 2006. We have had discussions with the Finnish President and government. Our idea is to use the Helsinki-Conference to promote mediation on the European political agenda.

If you know of others who might contribute, please feel free to forward this letter. We want this to be an open process.

Oslo 6th of October 2005

On behalf of the Board in NFM, Dag Hareide (chair)

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Getting to the Heart of Resolving Conflict

Date: Sunday, May 21, 2006
Location: London
Cost: From £50

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a simple profound and learnable process that builds an awareness of how to stay connected to the humanity in each of us while communicating. This leads us away from culturally conditioned communication, habits of blame, judgement, labels, diagnosis, evaluation, comparison and demand. It leads us towards; clear communication of speech and actions that are contributing to the pain of people in concflict; connection with the feelings and needs in each of us that are the motivation for our speech and actions; making specific, do-able, respectful request that aim to meet the needs of all concerned.

Speakers:
Speaker Marshall Rosenberg will be introduced by Maria Arpa, Chair of Mediation UK

For further details, please visit the Mediation UK website by clicking here.

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Levellers Day 2006

"Identity: Where We Live, Who We Are"

10 to 5pm
Saturday 20th May 2006
Burford, Oxfordshire
All day £10/£6 concessions, pm only, £7.50

SPEECHES, DEBATE, PROCESSION, MUSIC

Levellers Day is an open air event in Warwick Hall Garden, Burford, Oxfordshire, and commemorates three Leveller soldiers who were executed on Cromwell’s orders in Burford churchyard on 17 May, 1649.

This year’s theme, Identity: where we live, who we are, promises to make the 32nd annual Levellers Day one of the most stimulating yet. In a land with an imperial past and confused ideas on its future, is there an all-purpose glue that can bind us together in our diversity?

This year's speakers are

Tony Benn 81 this April, the elder statesman of the left who quit the House of Commons in 2001 "to spend more time on politics" and remains one of the most independent and entertaining of speakers.

Karen Chouhan “Hoodies, Hijabs and Anoraks” was the title of Karen’s contribution to a recent adult learning conference. She’s one of seven visionaries who have been selected by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to take part in a five-year "mission to change the world".

Darcus Howe Writer and often controversial broadcaster and social commentator, Trinidad born Darcus Howe has been a political activist in Britain since the 1960s.

Salma Yaqoob Salma is a Bradford-born psychotherapist who became active in the anti-war movement after an incident in Birmingham city centre after 9/11, when she was spat at in the street. She’s chair of Birmingham Stop-the-War Coalition and vice-chair of Respect.

Firoze Manji Oxford-based director of Fahamu, with thirty years of experience in international development, health, and human rights.

Plus feast of entertainment, including music from Press Gang, Robb Johnson, Leon Rosselson, Red Rose Folk Band, Sea Green Singers, Cry Havoc Morris and storyteller Chris Park.

Tickets

All day £10/£6 concessions, pm only, £7.50

Doors open at 9.30 am.

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Events listing is provided for information only. Inclusion in this listing should not be taken to imply that the Conflict Resolution Network UK supports an event or is involved in organising it.

To read about upcoming events, please click here.

Dates: 11-13 May 2006
Location: Friends House, London
Cost: Various (http://www.bethechange.org.uk) )

The 3rd Be  The Change conference takes place in London on May 11-13 – three days in  which 500 people from 20+ countries will come  together to share their ideas and their inspiration for manifesting a world  that works for all. There are three key areas of focus this year: on Thursday,  finance and the planet – the system’s impact and new ideas around  money, economics, investment and trade; on Friday, Global conflict and resolution - looking at  specific areas (the Middle East) and at our own internal processes; and on  Saturday, education for a sustainable future – the threat we face, how  we learn, and the leadership that ensues. Among those helping to guide and  inform us are change-makers from India, Australia, Denmark, Chile and   the USA – business and spiritual leaders, educators and social  entrepreneurs; some with reputations, others as yet little known. Whatever  your field, these three days should help you, as Gandhi suggested, be the  change you wish to see in the world.

Some of the highlights:   John Whitmore, Bernard Lietaer and Julio Olalla lead a discussion on  the global financial system, with some breakthrough ideas from John Duggan,  Susan Davis and Stan Thekaekara.  Scilla Elworthy, Zulfi Hussain  and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev provide some guideposts beyond conflict;  Tim Flannery tackles climate change and David Orr deals with   the imperatives for education; plus intense discussion cafes each day.  Add to that 3 evening workshops, a very special concert with Chloe  Goodchild, and a new one-day Symposium on the Sunday.

For full programme  details – and to book  – visit http://www.bethechange.org.uk You may also download a pdf of the programme here: http://www.bethechange.org.uk/downloads/BTC2006prog.pdf

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Speakers and music against racism – free event in Trafalgar Square

• When: Saturday, April 29th, 2006
• Location: Trafalgar Square, London
• Tickets: Free

LMHR and Unite Against Fascism present: Speakers and music against racism – free event in Trafalgar Square

This event will celebrate our multi-racial, multi-faith society. The Nazi BNP want to spread hatred and divide us. Join us in sending a message that we will not be divided – no to racism.

• Use your vote to stop the BNP on 4 May
• Unite Against Fascism.
• No to Islamophobia

Carnival procession
11am, assemble Parliament Square, Westminster.

Carnival showcase
12-2pm, Trafalgar Square.
Dance/poetry/open mic/singers/street theatre from schools, colleges and youth groups. Get your school or group involved – contact us now to secure your place!

Music and speakers against racism
2pm-8pm, Trafalgar Square.

Music from Belle & Sebastian, Roll Deep, Lethal Bizzle, Boy Kill Boy, Kray Twinz, The Paddingtons, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Heartless Crew, Mecca2Medina, Akala, Metro Riots, Emmanuel Jal, The Mentalists with Poly Styrene, Emeson, Bigga Fish.

Speakers include Gurinder Chadha (director of Bend it like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice), Keith Sonnet (UNISON Deputy General Secretary), Paul Mackney (NATFHE General Secretary), Ben Summerskill (Stonewall Chief Executive), Weyman Bennett (Unite Against Fascism), Mohammed Azam (Labour Party NEC member), Glyn Ford MEP, Kat Fletcher (NUS President), plus speakers from CWU, PCS and Amicus.

Comperes & DJs include Rampage, Tutu (Choice FM), Martin Smith (UAF/LMHR), Semtex, Nu-MCs. Punkvert VJs & films on giant video screens.

Event production by Eventful & Metropolis Music

Carnival supported by Amicus, CWU, PCS, Unison Greater London, Bigga Fish

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Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication

By NVC Resolutions

Dates: April 22-23 2006
Location: London
Cost: £130 waged / £90 concessions

The trainings are two days in length. They:

• Present the concepts & tools used in NVC.
• Will give you sufficient information & practice to start using NVC in your daily life.
• Are challenging, moving, supportive & fun.

Please visit the NVC Resolutions website for more information.

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Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication

By NVC Resolutions

Dates: April 14-15 2006
Location: Norwich
Cost: £130 waged / £90 concessions

The trainings are two days in length. They:

• Present the concepts & tools used in NVC.
• Will give you sufficient information & practice to start using NVC in your daily life.
• Are challenging, moving, supportive & fun.

Please visit the NVC Resolutions website for more information

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18-26 March 2006

European-Wide Action Week Against Racism

March 21st was declared International Day for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by the General Assembly of the United Nations as a reaction to the murder of 70 anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sharpeville, South-Africa, in 1960. During the annual European-wide Action Week, which centres around 21 March, thousands of people actively engage themselves for tolerance, equal rights and celebrate the diversity of Europe. This campaign aims to highlight the issues of racism from a non-gouvernmental perspective on all levels - local, national and European.

The campaign, centred around 21 March International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, involves tens thousands of people in all bigger European cities and almost all European countries.

This year once again hundreds of activities will take place all around Europe, organised by a very wide variety of organisations. Activities range from demonstrations and debates to film festivals and from special TV programs to cleaning the walls of racist slogans. It is the variety and creativity of many different simultaneous activities all over Europe that make the UNITED campaigns unique.

UNITED co-ordinates the European-Wide Action Week Against Racism, functions as an information point and distributes free posters and other campaigning tools to support organisations and activists.

In 2005 activities in 45 countries took place and hundreds of thousands of people were involved making this the biggest anti-racism campaign ever. 'Get active' and speak out against racism and intolerance.

For more information visit the United for Intercultural Action website

UNITED for Intercultural Action is a network against racism consisting of 560 organisations all over Europe. Activities are carried out by organisations from 39 countries. The campaign is co-ordinated by the International Secretariat of UNITED

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Learning the Lessons

Date: Saturday 18 March
Time: 10.00 - 5.00pm
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Cost: £30

To what extent can the skills and models of peace-making acquired in one conflict be transferred to other situations of conflict? Or must each conflict find its own way of healing its wounds? We are pleased to welcome David Stevens and others from the Corrymeela Community to dissect the problem of how to share their learning from 30 years of pioneering reconciliation work in Northern Ireland. 10.00 - 5.00pm £30 Booking essential

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Manners Maketh Man- but what Maketh Manners? An inter-fiath matter - reflections on 70 years of inter-faith dialogue.

Date: Thursday 16 March
Time: 6.00pm
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

We are delighted to welcome Bishop Kenneth Cragg, writer, poet and leading Christian scholar of Islam, to hear and celebrate his rich experiences and pioneering achievements in the field of inter-faith dialogue. 6.00pm Booking essential

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Peace Education Network Day Conference

Learning for Peace: Developing Positive Responses to Conflict

Date: 11 th March 2006
Time: 10.30 -4.30
Location: Friends House, Euston Road, London

This day is for teachers and others who work with young people. It is intended to provide ideas, support and inspiration for all those interested in developing positive responses to conflict from the personal to the global. Teachers, student-teachers, youth workers and curriculum planners are particularly welcome.

Workshops will include

• Choosing and Using Resources – John Lampen, Hope Project
• Citizenship Curriculum – Shula Maibaum, Citizenship Foundation
• Global Citizenship – Michael Newman & Margaret Burr, Humanities
  Education Centre (Tower Hamlets)
• Making Sense of World Conflict – Anna Louise Laycock, Oxfam
• Identity Project – George Anang'a, PLAN
• Restorative Justice in Schools – Belinda Hopkins, Transforming Conflict

In addition to the workshops above there will be the opportunity to speak to education workers from organisations in the Peace Education Network and to browse education for peace resources. Izzy Hallett will also introduce the film Where is the Love? and talk about how to involve and enable young people to develop similar projects.

The conference costs £25.00 including lunch and refreshments.
£10.00 students/unwaged.
A limited number of free places are available for students.

For further details, please visit the Peace Education Network website by clicking here.

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Mediation UK Annual Conference: Conversations on Difference and Diversity

Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Liverpool

Mediation UK invites you to its next annual conference, which will be held Tues 28 Feb – Wed 1 March in Liverpool. With its theme of Mediation and Diversity, the conference will be of interest to people working in conflict resolution in disputes around different cultures, ethncities and communities.

Aspects of community cohesion and related issues such as asylum, immigration, social cohesion, anti-social behaviour and the Respect agenda will be covered in a mixture of workshops and plenary sessions.

Workshops to be offered at the conference may* include:

• Common Standards for all Mediation Practice
• Issues of Disability
• Asylum, Immigration and Mediation
• Growing Workplace Medation
• Neutrality and Impartiality in Mediation
• Inter-ethnic Conflict
• The Quality Mark and its Adaptability
• Conflict in Faith Communities
• Mediation and Traveller Disputes
• Recruiting Mediators from Diverse Communities

Speakers:

• Rt Hon David Milliband MP, Minister for Communities & Local Government (tbc): Building community cohesion
• Jenny White MBE, Commissioner, Disability Rights Commission: The new Equalities Commission and the role of mediation and conciliation

* Please note that the programme may change as more speakers/workshop facilitators confirm.

Location:
Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

Costs:

• Members: £240 for both days (+1 night) or £120 for one day (applies for early booking, before 13 Jan).
• Non-members: £315 for both days (+1 night) or £160 for one day (applies for early booking, before 13 Jan).

Contact:
Mediation UK, Alexander House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol BS1 4BS

Telephone:
0117 904 6661

Email:
enquiry@mediationuk.org.uk

Booking Form:
Download the booking form here

Click here to visit the Mediation UK website.

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Young Women & Self Esteem

Date: 21-22 February 2006
Location: Leap Confronting Conflict
Cost: Buy two places for: £185 (voluntary); £250 (statutory)

This two-day course gives an opportunity to review your work with young women and explore new approaches.  Although the focus of this course is on young women, the tools and techniques can be successfully applied to work with young men.

Aims

* To share models and techniques for working with the expression and roots of low self-esteem in young women

Course includes

* Examining the underlying causes of low self-esteem

* Introduction to models for understanding persistent patterns of thinking which result in young women experiencing life as difficult and frightening

* Consideration of different types of behaviour which could be considered as manipulative, resistant or aggressive and ways of working with them

* Models and techniques that you can directly integrate into your one-to-one and group work programmes with young women.

For more information, please visit the Leap Confronting Conflict website by clicking here.

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Love Music Hate Racism Conference

• Date: Saturday, February 18th, 2006
• Location: TUC - Great Russell Street
• Tickets: £5 individuals, £3 unwaged/students, £10 organisations.

 

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Young Men & Anger

Date: 6-7 February 2006
Location: Leap Confronting Conflict
Cost: Buy two places for: £185 (voluntary); £250 (statutory)

This two-day course gives an opportunity to review your work with young men and explore new approaches. Although the focus of this course is on young men, the tools and techniques can be successfully applied to work with young women.

Aims

* To share models and techniques for working with the expression and roots of anger in young men

Course includes:

* Exploring anger, its causes, expressions and roots

* Introduction to models for understanding how young men use anger as a mask and a defence

* Consideration of strategies to enable young men to break out of engrained patterns of behaviour and create more choice for themselves

* Models and techniques that you can directly integrate into your one-to-one and group work programmes with young men.

For more information, please visit the Leap Confronting Conflict website by clicking here.

 

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Mediation Skills Training Course
by Peaceworks

Monday 30th January-Friday 3rd February 2006
Royal Norfolk Hotel, The Esplanade, Bognor Regis, West Sussex

With Chris Seaton and Mike Morris

Cost of 5 day course:

£350.00 conference delegate rate: Inclusive of pack, certification, lunch & refreshments

£450.00 residential rate: Inclusive of the above plus 4 nights’ bed & breakfast accommodation at The Royal Norfolk Hotel

To download more information regarding these courses please right click here and select 'save as.'

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Workplace Mediation Conference

The Future of Dispute Resolution:
The Role & Benefits of Workplace Mediation

Date: 24th January 2006
Venue: The Business Design Centre, Islington, London

Employment mediation and dispute resolution are now firmly on the agenda of most organisations across the UK.

According to latest research from the CIPD ACAS and the Chartered Management Institute, unresolved workplace conflict and bullying is damaging, costly and harmful.In response, many organisations are seeking new and innovative ways to resolve workplace disputes and conflicts.

TCM, are pleased to announce that they have been invited to sponsor a major UK conference focusing on innovative new techniques for resolving workplace conflicts. The conference is being organised by SYMPOSIUM EVENTS, one of the UK's leading HR events organisers. In conjunction with ACAS, the DTI, the TUC, Mediation UK and the CIPD, the team at SYMPOSIUM EVENTS are organising the UK's largest and most innovative dispute resolution conference, of its kind…EVER!

You should be at this event if you are concerned about the impact and rising costs of workplace conflict.

The event is particularly suitable for you if you are the CEO or Director, an HR or Personnel Professional, an Employee Relations Professional, a Diversity or Equalities specialist , a Mediator, Conciliator and/or Lawyer, or hold any role in which you may encounter staff tensions, conflicts or disputes.

The conference is already attracting considerable attention and will include keynote addresses from key players and policy makers from companies across the UK. These include the DTI, TUC, ACAS and CIPD. There will be a fully interative mock up mediation and a mediation marketplace where delegates can exchange ideas with some of the UK's leading mediation and dispute resolution practitioners.

The conference, will also provide up to date case studies where workplace mediation is being used within Government Departments, NHS Trusts, Police Forces, Private Sector Companies, Universities and International NGO’s

By providing a practical and hands on experience, participants can expect to receive answers to the following key questions:

1. What are the causes of conflict in the workplace and how can organisations measure the real costs?

2. What is workplace mediation and how does it work?

3. Why is mediation proving to be such an effective approach for resolving workplace conflicts?

4. How can we keep employment disputes out of Employment Tribunal (ET) or Court?

5. How can we make full use of mediation within our organisation?

Click here to visit the TCM website for more details.

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Race Relations and Your School

6pm for 6.30pm on Monday 23rd January 2006

The General Teaching Council wants to find out your views on one of today's key issues. Join us in central London for an evening of discussion followed by a reception.

Discussion opened by: Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah has achieved national prominence in the arts from a childhood and education in West London. He is the award winning playwright of such plays as Elmina's Kitchen, A Bitter Herb and Blue Brother Soul Sister. For many he is best known for his role as Findley in Casualty. He is also the Good Will Ambassador for trade for Christian Aid.

We want to hear from you on topics like:

Refreshments on arrival and hot buffet in the reception..

Venue: Ambassadors in Bloomsbury Hotel, 12 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1 (Euston, Euston Square or Russell Square tube)

To book, click here or phone 0845 363 1478.

If you have any questions or queries about the event or the booking process then please contact The Conference Team on 0845 3631478, or by email at gtc@rslive.co.uk.

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Bullying and Victimisation in Schools
13th December, 2005
Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh

This one day conference aims to look at the core issues associated with bullying, view the big picture of what is happening across the country, and discuss what can be done to try to stop bullying in its tracks.

Keynote speakers will include

Those who should attend include: headteachers and senior management, team members, teachers, teachers' organisations, schools inspectors, governors, parents, directors of education, other local authority education officials, social inclusion partnerships, teacher training institutions, qualifications authorities, school guidance teachers, families and children services, school boards, educational psychologists, voluntary organisations with an interest in child welfare, legal advocacy services, children's charities and youth groups.

More information:
Visit the website of the conference organiser to view more details and book online

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WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF?
(Film)

Tuesday, December 6, 2005, Birmingham
Saturday, December 10, 2005, Wolverhampton

Now you have a chance to see the new film that tells the story of one of the most exciting mass movements in British History. The film features footage of artists from the Rock against Racism (RAR) movement and the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) movement of today including The Clash, The Libertines, The Specials, Ms Dynamite, Pete Doherty, Steel Pulse, Hard-Fi, Misty in Roots, XRay Spex, Sham 69, Estelle and Babyshambles. The film tracks the rise of racism and the National Front in Britain during the 70s - and how a generation stopped them. There's rarely seen archive footage from the punk & RAR era - including the 1978 Carnival in east London's Victoria Park where 100,000 marched to the show headlined by The Clash and Tom Robinson Band.

But there’s also footage from today’s artists and the film links the struggle to stop the National Front in the past with the campaign to stop the fascist British National Party destroying people’s lives in the here and now.

Birmingham: St George's Post Sixteen Centre, Great Hampton Row, Birmingham B19 3JG. Busses 46, 16, 16a, 71, 78 - get off at Constitution Hill. For more information, ring 07837 244 518 or e-mail
BirminghamUAF@hotmail.com

Wolverhampton: The Light House, The Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1HT Tel .01902 716055 info@blackcountryunity.net

http://www.light-house.co.uk/

http://www.lmhr.org.uk/events/

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THE EDUCATION AND YOUTH SUBCOMMITTEE OF MEDIATION UK invites everyone – practitioners, trainers, coordinators to:

A Network and Training Day

Saturday, 26 November 2005
10.00-4.00pm
Friends House, 173 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BJ
(opposite Euston Main Line/Tube station)

09.30 Registration - Browse resources / Drink tea or coffee / Offer & choose open space workshops / Chat to other delegates

10.00 Welcome and Introductions

10.30 Presentations/Speakers with time for questions:

Fundraising – Rachael Takens-Milne, Citizenship Foundation
Building in Evaluation - Mark Bitel, Partners in Evaluation
Case study on Evaluation – Gemma Davis, Young Mediators Network
[ With time for questions]

12.45 Lunch (Vegetarian) also a time to network and browse resources

13.45 Choice of 3 Workshops: open space

Workshops will be offered and chosen on the day using a technique called openspace. Delegates sign up to their first choice of workshop offered on the day, and the 3 most popular will run. Anyone can offer to run a workshop on the day, so please come prepared if interested in offering a workshop!

14.45 Short Presentation: Education Worker at Mediation UK:
Where we are! (Ruth Taylor, EYSC Representative on Mediation UK Board)

15.00 Refreshments Break

15.15 Best Practice Guidelines: Presentation/Discussion & group work.

Individual groups will each look at one section of the Guidelines, discussing it in the group, before feeding back to the whole group. Delegates will be able to chose the group/section the wish to be involved in.

16.00 Evaluation and Closing

Cost of the day - £30
For more information contact Jaci Smith by email: JaciS@quaker.org.uk or
tel: 020 7663 1087. To ensure a place, register by Friday 4 November

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Art & Conflict Courses – Marian Liebmann

25-27 November 2005
and
3-5 February 2006
Art & Conflict at Woodbrooke, Birmingham

Cost: £135
Tel: 0121 472 5171
E-mail: enquiries@woodbrooke.org.
Web: www.woodbrooke.org.uk

Conflict is an emotive subject. This course is about finding new ways to look at it. There will be a variety of practical art exercises - individual, pair and group - to gain insights into different aspects of conflict. All art materials provided. No artistic skill needed, just the willingness to have a go. Art therapists also welcome! Please wear old clothes.

Marian Liebmann has worked in art therapy with offenders, with women’s groups and community groups, and currently at the Inner City Mental Health Service in Bristol. She teaches and lectures on art therapy at several universities in the UK and Ireland. She also works in mediation and conflict resolution, and has run Art and Conflict workshops in many countries. She has written/edited eight books, including Art Therapy for Groups (second edition Feb 2004) and Arts Approaches to Conflict.

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A course by LEAP Confronting Conflict:

Training for Trainers

22-24 November 2005
£275/£350 Voluntary Organisations; £450 Statutory/Commercial Organisations

To book a place or to find out more contact us on 020 7272 5630 or e-mail courses@leaplinx.com or visit the following website:

http://www.leaplinx.com/adults/index.htm.

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“What makes peacebuilding effective:

linking macro and micro”

Friday 18th & Saturday 19th November, Rugby

Further to our successful first Conference last November, Peace Direct is organising its second 24 hr conference. We will explore the connections that can be made between the different dimensions of conflict. We will look at what enhances the effectiveness of peacebuilding including the impact of personal transformation.

We are particularly proud to have speakers who have extensive experience in dealing with conflict. They will draw on their personal and professional journeys as bridge builders, sharing what they have learned and discussing what we can do both as individuals and as groups.

The event will be a rich mix of presentations and breakout sessions designed to enable you to share the skills and experience you bring, including sessions from:

Charlie Irvine, Key Note Speaker, a serial optimist and African visionary, whose work extends from antiapartheid activism and consultancy with the world’s largest companies to the nurturing of a network of new African leaders.

Sue Williams, who will present the results of research into what makes peacebuilding effective. Sue has been involved in conflict transformation for the last 25 years in most regions of the world.

Madge Bray and Frank Kane, whose backgrounds lie in social care and music. They will illustrate how vibration transforms and opens new pathways for the return to peace and harmony.

Margaret Middleton of the Community of the Cross of Nails.

Plenty of networking time will allow you to meet new people and be inspired by their experience. The Conference will bring together people:

• who have an interest in conflict here and overseas
• who currently focus on local peacemaking
• who specifically want to form or be linked with a group in an area of conflict
• whose links were not originally related to conflict, but where conflict is an issue

Location:

The venue Coton House is extremely easy to reach via railway (10 minutes taxi ride from Rugby station) and via the M6 and M1. Please see page 6 for further instructions on finding the venue.

Cost: (The prices for the event include food and accommodation)

£120 per person (organisational rate)
£90 per person (individual rate)
£35 concessions (unwaged)

10% discount will be applied for cheques received before the 15th of September £108 (org. rate) / £81 (indiv. rate) / £31.50 (concessions)

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

Contact: Francesca Cerletti
Francesca@peacedirect.org
0207 549 028550

To read more about peace direct, please click here.

To download a PDF with booking form, speaker bios and other details, please left click here and select 'save as.'

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UNITY FESTIVAL

Saturday 12th November 2005
6.00 pm - 12.00 pm
Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
FREE

"Join us to celebrate diversity, creatibity and unity."

Please join us for this exciting, community evening of creative workshops, dance, music, poetry, comedy, performace, circus, stimulating visual imagery and colourful costumes.

Click here to download a flyer with ticket information.

Click here to read more about Unity on the CRN:UK

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“Conflict costs…mediation resolves…media reports and distorts?”
Celebrating 21 years of Mediation UK
8 November 2005, 6-9pm in Central London

Mediation UK has now been working in the field of conflict resolution for 21 years. To celebrate, we're hosting a unique event. “conflict costs…mediation resolves…media reports and distorts?” on 8 November 6-9pm in Central London.

The evening will centre around a panel debate with panellists who include Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, Hazel Blears MP, BAFTA winning documentary film maker Roger Graef, Hamza Vayani, Chief Executive of Youth Voice, Dave Walker Manager of Southwark Mediation Service and Shami Charkrabarti Liberty director as chair. It promises to be a sparky, intelligent and insightful discussion. Tickets will cost £18 and a booking form can be found on our website www.mediationuk.org.uk

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A course by LEAP Confronting Conflict:

Setting up a Peer Training Programme

2 November 2005
£100 Voluntary, Statutory and Commercial Organisations

To book a place or to find out more contact us on 020 7272 5630 or e-mail courses@leaplinx.com or visit the following website:

http://www.leaplinx.com/adults/index.htm.

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Through the Wire: Conflict Resolution & Anti-Racism Skills for Young People

02 November 2005
Burnley Youth Theatre

Through the Wire is being organised by Breaking Barriers in Burnley, Aik Saath and the Conflict Resolution Network UK. It is also the second national conference to be organised by the CRN: UK. The conference follows the same theme as last year and focuses on conflict resolution and anti-racism skills for young people, delivered by peer led projects from around the UK. However this year the conference will concentrate to a greater extent on arts led approaches to conflict / racism. Therefore a variety of mediums including, dance, drama, music, poetry and others will be used to explore the themes and participants will be given the opportunity to show back their pieces of work compiled during workshops.

In respect of our Muslim participants who will be fasting, the conference will start at the later time of 12pm and lunch will be served at around 4pm when fast closes. The lunch period has been extended giving participants the chance to mingle and get involved with games and activities so they get more of chance to meet with other like minded young people from around the UK and hopefully develop networks of support and of course make new friends.

1. Overall the aims of the day are to:
2. Equip young people with skills in conflict resolution and anti-racism or strengthen their existing skills;
3. Assist in young people’s personal development;
4. Give the projects the opportunity to showcase their work;
5. Build stronger links with similar organisations;
6. Develop a stronger support network;
7. Strengthen the voice of peacebuliding and anti-racism work

Click here to visit the official conference website.

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The limits of Inter-Cultural Dialogue

The Corbishley Lecture given by Prof. Lord Parekh

St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace

Tuesday, 1st November 2005

11.00 am - 4.00 pm

£10.00 - Advance Booking essential

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Preventing Racist Violence: Action to Reduce Hate Crime and Promote Community Cohesion – at home and across Europe

A major national conference to launch Runnymede ’s Report on Preventing Racist Violence

Wednesday 19 October 2005
Church House, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, London SW1P 3NZ

The Runnymede Trust will be holding a major conference at which Paul Goggins, the Home Office Minister with responsibility for Policing, Security and Safer Communities, will respond to the launch of its latest report, Preventing Racist Violence.

Racist violence continues to plague our society - in Britain and across Europe. Recent brutal racially-motivated murders in Britain, rising numbers of antisemitic attacks in Western Europe, violence against Roma people in Eastern Europe and growing Islamophobia are all reminders of the need to tackle the root causes of this behaviour. This conference will draw together practitioners and policymakers, particularly those working with potential perpetrators, to focus on practical ways to combat racist violence and to share best practice from across Europe.

The day has been designed to ensure that all delegates can participate in discussion with practitioners and also listen to leading experts in the field, including Dutch MEP, Emine Bozkurt, and Professor Erik Bleich with first hand knowledge of the problems.  In addition there will be speakers from community groups giving practical examples of how they are achieving success in combating racism.

In the afternoon there will be a "Question Time" panel chaired by Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy with speakers from the USA, Ireland, Bradford Council, the Metropolitan Police, the Crown Prosecution Service, Southall Black Sisters and Doreen Lawrence of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.

Every delegate will receive a copy of the Runnymede Report.

To ensure your organisation is represented please fill in the fax-back form on the brochure (download below).  If you would like to book for more than one person please copy the form.

For further information please contact the Runnymede Conference Desk on Tel: 020 8542 7622.

 

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Diversity and Dialogue – an event to bring faiths together.

On 2 October 2005, the British Museum is hosting a dialogue event. We are inviting young people from all faiths and backgrounds to come together and discuss their values and to think about what it means to be the citizen of a city like London. They will take part in workshops in different galleries of the Museum and learn lessons from the trials and errors of past civilisations. They will have the chance to express themselves through journalism, art and even dance.

To read more / book a place on this conference, please click here.

To read more about Diversity and Dialogue, please click here.

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Mediation in Schools: An Introduction for Teachers and Other School Staff

Friday 30 September - Sunday 02 October
Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham
Cost : £ 135.00

Who is the course for? 

Teachers and other workers in schools who already have some understanding of conflict resolution concepts

The Course

Peer Mediation is one practical way of bringing Quaker witness for peace to bear on the real, everyday needs for peacemaking in schools. The course will build on participants’ existing understanding of conflict resolution to explore the concept of mediation as a resource for schools. There will be lots of opportunity to practise the process.

What can I hope to gain?

Enhanced skills in dealing with pupils’ disputes and other conflicts which arise in schools. Readiness to introduce peer mediation to pupils/students

Course leaders

Diana Lampen and John Lampen are experienced peace workers and trainers, with a wealth of practical experience, ranging from Northern Ireland to Uganda. They are members of Stourbridge Meeting and have worked in a number of West Midlands schools as trainers for the West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project.

To read more / book a place on this conference, please click here.

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Training Course from Mediation Sheffield

Mediation Sheffield will be running a free course in September for Community Mediation Skills. It is an accredited course (Mediation UK/Open College Network) and is equivalent to NVQ level 3. The course comprises of 120 hours in total and is broken up as follows:

40 hours taught time
40 hours private study/reflection
40 hours casework time.

Normally attendance on such a course would be costly and therefore in addition to the 40 hours casework time Mediation Sheffield and Mediation in Rotherham ask that you give 2-3 hours a week; these hours would be spread over approximately a year. If you are wishing to be trained but not able to commit to volunteering the course will cost £500.00 per individual

The course will be held at Scotia Works at the below address and the dates and times are as follows:

Tuesday ~27.09.05~ 6pm-9pm
Tuesday ~04.10.05~ 6pm-9pm
Tuesday ~11.10.05~ 6pm-9pm
Tuesday ~18.10.05~ 6pm-9pm
Tuesday ~25.10.05~ 6pm-9pm
Tuesday ~01.11.05~ 6pm-9pm
Saturday ~05.11.05~9.30am~5.30pm
Saturday ~12.11.05~9.30am~5.30pm
Saturday ~19.11.05~9.30am~5.30pm

If you have any more questions, would like to secure a place or know anyone else that would be interested, please contact, Fiona Jervis at the following address:

Mediation Sheffield
Scotia Works
Leadmill Road
Sheffield S1 4SE
0114 241 2774

To read more about Mediation Sheffield, please click here.

 

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Peace One Day (International Day of Peace)

Date: 21st September (every year)
Venue: World Wide

The General Assembly, in resolution 55/282, of 7 September 2001, decided that, beginning in 2002, the International Day of Peace should be observed on 21 September each year. The Assembly declared that the Day be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day. It invited all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, regional and non-governmental organizations and individuals to commemorate the Day in an appropriate manner, including through education and public awareness, and to cooperate with the United Nations in establishing a global ceasefire.

 "The International Day of Peace is always a special occasion, but this one is even more so -- for this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Bell, which we ring every year on this day."

Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary-General
21 September 2004

To read more about the International Day of Peace on the Peace One Day website, please click here.

 

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Perspectives on Conflict:
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference

University of Salford
8th & 9th September 2005

Registration Form

Call for Papers (closing date 1 July 2005)

Directions to the University

Presenting a two day interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate students of the arts, media and social sciences to be held at the University of Salford . Building on the success of previous postgraduate events, the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Science is proud to present its fourth annual conference. This year’s conference aims to consider current and changing perspectives on conflict in cultural, social, political and military life.

The intention is to stimulate debate and generate fresh understandings through interdisciplinary exchange. We welcome papers in fields related to law, media, politics, sociology, literature, philosophy, psychology, history, military history and the performing arts.

The conference intends to address these intersecting themes:

• Spaces and Places of Conflict
• Practices and dynamics of Conflict
• Mediation and Resolution of Conflict
• Images and Representations of Conflict
• Concepts and Understandings of Conflict

Salford University is proud of the vibrant postgraduate research culture within AMSS. We aim to continue to provide a supportive and friendly environment where postgraduates can gain experience in presenting their work and meet fellow researchers. The conference also welcomes participants who do not wish to present.

Email address for abstracts and information: conflictconference@hotmail.co.uk

Conference Administration:

Sara Lockett , Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Science

University of Salford , Greater Manchester , M5 4WT , UK

Phone: 0044 (161) 295 2811, Fax: 0044 (161) 295 2818

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First Encompass Journey of Understanding

8th-18th September
Loch Eil, Scotland

This project will bring together Indonesian, Israeli, Palestinian and British youths aged 18-23 to explore issues of citizenship, tolerance and understanding.

Encompass was set up in the memory of Dan Braden who was murdered in the terrorist attacks on Bali in 2002. We run international residential adventure-based reconciliation and cultural diversity projects for young people aged 18-23. Since inception we have brought together over 200 Indonesian, Israeli, Palestinian, American, British and Irish youths.

During these programs, prejudices and preconceptions are broken down so that when they return to their communities around the world they can put into practice the things that they learnt with us. This in turn creates a global alumni committed to the ideals of tolerance and understanding.

If you are interested in participating get in touch with Josh on 020 74939739, or visit the website, www.encompasstrust.org

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Transforming Conflict into Collaboration?

Sheffield Hallam University
31 August to 2 September 2005

The Conflict Research Society is the meeting place of choice for professionals working from all disciplines who share a desire to develop a better understanding of the processes, implications, management and transformation of conflict. This includes all arenas, whether international, social, organisational or personal.

The Society holds an Annual Conference which this year is being held in Sheffield from Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September.

The ability of conflict to do long-term damage to life, relationships and property is well-documented.  This year we are looking, if not exactly for good news stories, at least for examples of situations where the powerful negative energy of conflict has been transformed into something more positive;  and for methodologies which may promote this.  

Papers will cover narrative examples or interdisciplinary theory, eg psychological, appreciative enquiry, game theory and anthropology, on turning the negative energy of conflict into the positive energy of collaboration.   This may involve conflict resolution or management, mediation, disputes and dispute resolution.

For more information, please visit the CRS site at
http://www.shu.ac.uk/conference21/crs2005/

 

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Anti-Bullying Conference for Young People

Date: July 18th
Venue: Stoke Newington, North London
Time: 9.30 AM
Cost: Free for young people

The 2005 I Power I Anti-Bullying Conference for Young People will take place on Monday July 18th in Stoke Newington, North London. It promises to be a fantastic event with music, presentations, workshops, theatre, special guest stars, films and exhibitions. If you are a young person who would like to get involved, or are a teacher or youth worker would like to send a young delegate or get involved in the Conference then please check out the details all over this site. Contact us for more details, to get the anti-bullying conference posters and flyers, or to ask us questions about the anti-bullying conference.

To book a place at the anti-bullying conference for young people please fill-in the Application Form Here and post it back to I Power I as soon as possible. Places are very limited and are booking up fast.

This event is being produced by Actionwork Films in partnership with the I Power I Crew, Stoke Newington Media Arts College and Rowan Studio's Project Wolf

To read more about the Actionwork on the CRN:UK, please click

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Linking Groups in the UK with Peace Workers
Building relationships within and between Groups

Date: 16th July
Venue: Peace Direct Office, Development House
Time: 10:30 to 16:00
Cost: £15 per person per workshop

Peace Direct is holding the above workshop on 16th July, 10:30 to 16:00, at the Peace Direct office, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4JX.

Ruth Musgrave will be joined by Ann Jordan and Anthony Gimpel in facilitating the workshop. Ann brings her extensive experience in cross cultural and diversity training, and Anthony is the central force of the Just Peace Leicester Group. The event will focus on the process involved in forming a group, how to build and sustain momentum, and how to develop lasting relationships including:

What dynamics may develop in groups and how can we deal with difficult issues? How can we build relationships with other groups, in particular of different cultures? How can we best support peace building efforts?

 The workshop will:

Cost: £15 per person per workshop

For more information about this event please contact Francesca Cerletti francesca@peacedirect.org

To read more about Peace Direct, please click here.

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The Power of Dialogue
Trainer: Sallyann Roth
Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

Date: Saturday 9th July
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 09.30 - 17.30
Cost: £60 (includes lunch)

A practical workshop designed to develop your planning and facilitation skills. The Dialogue approach, pioneered by The Public Conversations Project (PCP), offers a means of creating fruitful communication between people with conflicting views about divisive public issues. People who have regarded each other as adversaries or threatening strangers are invited to engage with each other in new ways—ways that an reveal previously obscured possibilities for empathic, constructive engagement and sometimes, cooperative action. This intensive workshop takes you through the practical steps involved in preparing and facilitating such a dialogue.

Sallyann Roth, MCW is a founder member of the PCP Team in Boston, USA, a Senior Associate of the Taos Institute, and former Co-director of the Family Institute of Cambridge. She works with the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School, consults with and provides training to organizations, and maintains a clinical practice.

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From the Classroom to the Workplace: Citizenship and the National Curriculum

Date: Tuesday, 4 th July
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5
Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

‘A discussion on the role of Citizenship education in the national curriculum led by Dr Maurice Glasmen of the London Metropolitan University

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Mediation Skills Training

by Community Resolve
creative conflict resolution in central Bristol

Date / Time: Wednesdays June 29 (2-5pm), July 6 & 13 (9.30am-4.30pm)
Location: Bristol

Open to all – limited places

A 2½ day course for anyone interested in learning how mediation works and the skills it uses

Interested in working as a mediator in your mother tongue?

Community Resolve is looking to train bi-lingual mediators who will work both in their mother tongue and in English. To complete the training to be a mediator, you need to attend these 2½ days first. The second part of the course will be held in the autumn.

For more information on the course and the cost, contact us on 0845 345 7461 or communityresolve@eastonca.org

To read more about Community Resolve, please click here.

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'Anne Frank and You ' a new exhibition open each day

Date: Monday 20th June - Sunday 26th June
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 10.00 - 18.00

An interactive exhibition using cartoons, audia-visual elements and contemporary imaging techniques to bring the word of Anne Frank to a new generation. She was a German-Jewish teenager who kept a remarkable diary of her life hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam, before her death in a concentration camp. This exhibition uses Anne Frank's story and wisdom to question how we see each other today. Exhibition created by the Anne Frank Trust

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‘I Believe in Peace’ a talk and discussion led by Geshie Tashi Resident Teacher- Jamyang Buddhist Centre

Date: 23rd June
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5 per lecture

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Training of Peaceworkers: Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding in Practice, Skills, Tools & Methods for Practitioners

Date: 17th June
Location: London , United Kingdom
Time:
Cost: £75

Training of Peaceworkers – Conflict Transformation & Peacebuilding in Practice is a one-day intensive introduction to the TRANSCEND Approach for practitioners and those working in or interested in working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

Dealing with Conflicts and Violence in Schools and the Community: Developing a Practical Curricula and Pedagogies for Peace Education

Date: 18th June
Location: London , United Kingdom
Time:
Cost: £75

This one-day programme has been specially designed by TRANSCEND for professionals working in education in the UK and internationally

Trainer details for both: Trainers: Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen,  Contact person: Cristina Muresan
Organizers: TRANSCEND, Ministry for Peace UK

For further details please visit http://www.ministryforpeace.org.uk/

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'I believe in Peace' A Talk and Discussion with Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah
(Click here to read more about this series)

Date: Wednesday 15th June
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5 per lecture or £20 for the series of 6. Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

At Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue (December 2000-) Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah studied Sociology at the London School of Economics (BSc. Soc. 2:1, 1974-77) and Rabbinics at the Leo Baeck College in London. A writer, Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah has edited three books and contributed over three dozen articles and several poems to various journals and anthologies. She also teaches and lectures in many settings on a variety of topics and has delivered three conference sermons and four conference ‘key-note’ lectures. She is currently chairperson of the Liberal Judaism Publications Action Group.

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Building Peace Within and Between Religions and Faiths

The Role of Religion and Spiritual Faith in Escalating and Transforming Conflicts in the World and Our Communities
 
Date: 15th June - 16th June
Location: London , United Kingdom
Time:
Cost: £110

Trainers: Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen,  Contact person: Cristina Muresan
Organizers: TRANSCEND, Ministry for Peace UK

The participation fee covers participation in the seminar, and all materials, including:

For further details please visit http://www.ministryforpeace.org.uk/

 

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Football and educationalists to tackle racism

Date: 14th June
Location: Old Trafford
Cost: £80 (£50 reduced fee for community groups)

Manchester United host education conference

A national education conference to look at how school pupils can use football to address diversity, anti- racism and citizenship will be held at Manchester United next month.

The one day conference organised by Kick It Out, football’s anti- racism campaign, will highlight good practice in the classroom, work taking place to engage school students at football clubs and encourage debate on the wider use of football as an educational tool to counter racism and promote citizenship.

More than 200 educationalists from across the UK will join invited guest speakers including Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Education, Lord Herman Ouseley, Chair of Kick It Out and former Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, and, David Gill, Chief Executive of Manchester United Football Club.

Football has been campaigning against racism for more than 10 years, prompted by the need to break the historic link between football and racism and by drawing on the game’s universal appeal to influence attitudes and behaviour.

The conference, sponsored by the National Union of Teachers, will be held on the 14 th June at Old Trafford. A limited number of places at the conference are still available.

Further details available by click here.

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On the Field of Battle - The Gita

How does the Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi's 'bible' reconcile the need to resist evil with non-violence?

Date: Monday 13th June
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5 per lecture or £20 for the series of 6. Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

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Effective Meeting Skills

Date: 9th June
Location: Bristol

An introductory day long course to help you understand the role facilitation plays in creating participative and productive meetings, and to equip you with tools and techniques to be an effective facilitator.

Course fees: £95 - £125

To book and for more information please contact matthew AT seedsforchange.org.uk (replace AT with @) or 0845 458 4776

To read more about the Seeds for Change Network on the CRN:UK, please click here.

To read more about this training on the Seeds for Change Network website, please click here.

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'Violence and the Sacred' A Rough Guide to Rene Girard with Rev Giles Frazer(Click here to read more about this series)

Date: Tuesday 7th June
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5 per lecture or £40 for the series of 10
Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

Revd Dr Giles Fraser Lectures in Philosophy, Wadham College, and is Vicar of Putney. He is a frequent contributor to The Guardian. He has made a special study of the ground breaking work of Rene Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the twentieth century.

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‘I Believe in Peace’
(Click here to read more about this series)

A talk followed by a discussion with Dr Jeevan Deol, Lecturer in Urdu and South Asian Studies at SOAS.

Date: Thursday 2nd June 2005
Location: St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Cost: A suggested contribution of £5 per lecture or £40 for the series of 10

Booking: Call 020 7496 1610 email

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Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies

Date: 21 April – 9 June (weekly)
Venue: Coventry University Centre for Lifelong Learning & The Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Fee: £50. (Reduced fees for those on benefits: £35)

Run by Coventry University Centre for Lifelong Learning & The Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation this course will introduce you to the field of Peace and Conflict Studies and will be an excellent opportunity for anyone possibly interested in a degree-course in this field to find out what it’s all about. It should also give you some hope and inspiration that violence is not inevitable and that there are many ways of working toward a more peaceful and just world community. Start date: 21 April, 8 weekly sessions Thursday evenings, 6 – 8:30 pm. Course Fee: £50. Reduced fees for those on benefits: £35.

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Culture, Conflict, Creativity and Change
Teaching Peace and Global Citizenship in our Multi-Cultural Society

Date: 23 April (Saturday) 2005
Venue: Coventry University
Time: from 10.00 am - 4.30 pm

Speakers including: Julia Jarman, children's writer - author of Peace Weavers; Margot Brown , National Co-ordinator of Centre for Global Education; Sandra Shipton, Adviser, Coventry LEA.

There will also be practical workshops on offer for teachers and those who work with young people.

Organised by the Peace Education Network (of which Pax Christi is a member).
Bookings via Pax Christi: £25.00 waged or £10.00 unwaged. Includes lunch.

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Making Theatre On Peace Issues: A Peace Theatre Residency
Run By Sole Purpose Productions

Date: 11-15 May 2005
Venue: Kilcranny House, Coleraine
Fee: £25

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Dealing with conflict - from micro to macro

Workshop organised by Peace Direct

(Part of the Link Group Initiative)

Saturday 21 st May, 2005

10.30 am – 4:00 pm

Ruth Musgrave, of Conflict and Change in Newham (London) and John Lampen, of The Hope Project, will explore and examine the following points:

• Is there a continuum of conflict - from personal/community conflict to conflict between groups/nations?
• How do you approach and deal with these conflicts?
• What are the points of similarity and difference?

The aim of the workshop is to:

• raise awareness on the links between conflict in the home and in UK communities, and conflict within and between countries
• provide some examples of approaches to resolving conflict that can be used across the spectrum
• share ideas with participants which maybe useful in their own context
• provide a networking opportunity

10.30 am Registration

10.45 am - 12.15 pm Ruth Musgrave (micro level discussion)

12.15 pm – 13.30 pm Lunch

13.30 pm – 15.00 pm John Lampen (macro level discussion)

15.00 pm – 16.00 pm Networking

Cost: £15 for the day
Venue: Peace Direct

Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London EC2A 4JX

Contact: Francesca Cerletti at Francesca@peacedirect.org or

020 7549 0285

 

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Working with Conflict
Responding to Conflict

Date: 11th April - 17th June 2005
Venue: Birmingham

Working with Conflict course is a ten-week course, run once a year. The overall aim of the course is to provide participants with a broad understanding on a variety of issues and topics relevant to their work and situation, thereby contributing to the capacity of organisations and communities to work for positive change. There is a strong practical focus to the course, with an emphasis on strengthening skills and building capacity

Specific Aims:

The four core modules are:

Participants:

This course attracts a wide range of international participants from NGO’s, grassroots and community-based organisations, and from all sectors of civil society. The participants work in a variety of fields such as human rights, education, the environment, health, peacebuilding – they all work in situations of actual or potential conflict.

Contact Stuart MacDonald at CLES on 0161 233 1924 or fax 0161 236 1891.

• How to conduct active exercises which can help to build group cohesion and raise discussion around key issues of offending behaviour.
• How to facilitate the creation of frozen images and simple role-plays which can be used to examine thoughts, feeling s and behaviour.
• How to use exercises and scene work to facilitate skills training related to themes such as: victim awareness, conflict resolution and problem-solving.
• Rapport building, including: basic questioning techniques, encouraging participation and working with resistance.

• Using the Political System: Stewart Kemp & Frank Jackson
• Peace Education: Chris Ballance MSP on Scottish Parliament initiatives for peace education in schools and Pat Haward, PEN
• Direct Action: Lindis Percy, CAAB
• Legal Action: Carol Naughton, Peacerights
• Using the Media: Ruth Tanner, CND

16.00: Feedback from workshops followed by wrapping up session.
Closes at 17.30.

Coventry Peace Month

Coventry celebrates its second peace month in October and organisers are delighted that more than 70 activities will be featured.

You don’t need any experience in group work or workshop facilitation to take part, but you will need a basic understanding of conflict resolution or mediation skills. The training will be lead by Amanda Nelmes a professional ‘Leap trainer’. The cost is £10 per person which includes lunch and refreshments. The places are limited, so get in touch now to secure your place. For more information or a booking form call Gemma on 0207 272 5630 or email ymn@leaplinx.com.

For more information about the YMN, please click here.