Fall 2010 Newsletter
The Fall Newsletter is here!
What’s inside:
- Letter from David Plumb, International Section Chair 2009-2010
- Letter from Luis E. Oré, International Section Chair 2010-2011
- Q & A with Sister Pauline Silver Acayo, Catholic Relief Services
- Q & A with Ashok Panikkar, Meta-Culture
- Introducing: Walter A. Wright, International Section Chair-Elect, and María Alba Aiello de Almeida, International Section Director-at-Large
View the newsletter here: Fall 2010 Newsletter
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Join us for International Day!
- The premier event for conflict resolution professionals with a global focus
- This year’s themes:
- Managing conflicts around international development
- Better practice in peace building
- Cross-cultural communication
- Participate in high-level, interactive discussion with leaders in the field
- Compelling speakers, including:
- Ana-Mita Betancourt, Inter-American Development Bank
- Ashok Panikkar, Meta-Culture (India)
- Merrick Hoben, Consensus Building Institute
- Sister Pauline Acayo, Catholic Relief Services in Uganda
- Kenneth Cloke & Alan Gross, Mediators Beyond Borders
- Charles E. Tucker, International Human Rights Law Institute
- Michele S. Riley, Columbia University
- See speaker bios here
- See the full agenda below
- When: September 1, 2010, as part of ACR’s 10th Annual Conference
- Where: Chicago Marriott Downtown, 540 North Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60611 USA
International Day Agenda
Welcome and Awards Presentation
- 9:00am - Welcome, David Plumb & Luis Ore, ACR International Section
- 9:10am - Presentation of IDC Outstanding Leadership Awards
- Meta-Culture (Ashok Panikkar, founder and president, receiving)
- Sister Pauline Acayo, Catholic Relief Services in Uganda
Session 1: Managing conflict around international development
- 9:30am - Ana-Mita Betancourt, Inter-American Development Bank
- Banks as Mediators? The role of innovative grievance mechanisms in resolving development disputes
- 10:10am - Ashok Panikkar, Meta-Culture
- When business, communities and government collide: Managing conflict in the world’s largest democracy
- 10:50am - Break
- 11:20am - Merrick Hoben, Consensus Building Institute
- Niger Delta case study: Chevron and communities build trust (and peace) through a participatory evaluation and facilitated negotiation
- 12:00pm - Pulling it all together - discussion: What are we learning about managing development conflicts?
- 12:15pm - Lunch (1 hour)
Session 2: Better practice in peace building
- 1:15pm - Sister Pauline Acayo, Catholic Relief Services in Uganda
- On the front lines of peace building: Reintegrating and rebuilding communities in the wake of violence
- 2:05pm - Kenneth Cloke & Alan Gross, Mediators Beyond Borders
- Taking initiative: What role do we want to play in promoting a more peaceful world?
- 2:45pm - Charles E. Tucker, International Human Rights Law Institute
- Where is all the money going? Foreign aid for conflict zones and post-conflict countries – the good, the bad and the wasteful
- 3:25pm - Pulling it all together - discussion: What are we learning about better practice in peace building?
- 3:40pm - Break
Session 3: Cross-culture communication
- 4:10pm - Michele S. Riley, Columbia University
- We know the theory, but how do we apply it? A practical approach for mediators to apply cross-cultural communication principles
- 4:50pm - Participant discussion: Applying cross-cultural principles to our own practice
- 5:15pm - Wrap-up
- 5:30pm - Adjourn
Posted: June 16th, 2010 under Home.
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