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Thailand’s culture of non-violence got a shot in the arm on Monday, after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ended a second round of nationally televised peace talks with leaders of the anti-government movement that has been holding protests for over two weeks now.
(...more)A Muslim congregation that converted a movie theater into a mosque has temporarily shelved plans to add a minaret and three golden cupolas while it reaches out to the neighborhood.
(...more)Kitchanga, Congo — In a decade of war, Biringiro Kamanutse has tried to go home four times – only to flee for his life each time. A few weeks ago, rebels attacked his village, killing and looting, even taking his clothes and cooking pans. Mr. Kamanutse and his family took shelter in a nearby village, but it too was attacked, so they trudged two days through the bush to reach a camp at Kitchanga, where up to 20,000 refugees are crowded in tiny huts of sticks and straw.
While still in the bush, he heard politicians on the radio talking about peace and progress. “They say we can go home – it’s safe, it’s quiet,” he says. “But it has no connection to reality.”
(...more)The overall purpose of this paper is to evaluate the substantive results of the Copenhagen conference, including the status of the negotiations on the key issues under the formal negotiating tracks and the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord, and to draw implications for implementation of actions in developing countries… full text .pdf
(...more)Every time that I teach international criminal law, at least one student writes on whether you could prosecute the Burmese junta for crimes against humanity. As a matter of substantive ICL, the answer is clearly yes. The problem is jurisdictional — who is going to prosecute them? Apparently, the UK thinks it should be the ICC via a Security Council referral:
(...more)Monday, 19 April 2010 to Thursday, 22 April 2010
Friday, 14 May 2010 to Saturday, 15 May 2010
Monday, 17 May 2010 to Thursday, 20 May 2010
Monday, 24 May 2010 to Thursday, 27 May 2010
Friday, 11 June 2010 to Monday, 14 June 2010
Saturday, 19 June 2010 to Tuesday, 22 June 2010
Monday, 23 August 2010 to Thursday, 26 August 2010
Monday, 25 October 2010 to Thursday, 28 October 2010
INTRODUCTORY CONFLICT COACHING WORKSHOP
Conflict coaching is a specialized niche in the field of coaching and conflict management. It is a one-on-one technique, in which a trained coach assists people to effectively prevent or manage specific disputes and to enhance their conflict management skills. This process has wide application, in the organizational context and for coaching individuals to participate in mediation, negotiation and relational conflict.
Outcomes of the Introductory Conflict Coaching Workshop:
The outcomes of this workshop are that participants will gain:
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Methods Used in the Workshop: Through self-reflection, skill-building exercises, discussion, simulations, demonstrations and skills practices, participants develop and practice conflict coaching techniques and skills. |
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The training will be of specific interest to coaches, HR Professionals, experienced workplace mediators and other conflict management professionals, who want to learn the fundamentals of a model for coaching conflict. |
This workshop has been approved for 28 hours of Continuing Coaching Education Units from the International Coach Federation (23 hours ICF Core Competencies; 1 hour Personal Development; 1 hour Business Development; and 3 hours Other Skills and Tools Directly Applicable to Coaching).
2010 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:
Dates Location Registration Deadline
April 19-22* San Antonio, Texas March 26, 2010
May 14-15 & 28-29 Dublin, Ireland
May 17-20* Portland, Oregon April 15, 2010
May 24-27* Arlington, Virginia April 30, 2010
June 11-14 Paris, France
June 19-22 Oxford, England
August 23-26** Toronto, Canada September 24, 2010
October 25-28** Ottawa, Canada October 1, 2010
* This program has been approved for 27 recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute (U.S.).
** This program is pre-approved for recertification through HRPA (Canada).
We also offer workshops in Australia and New Zealand. Contact us for more information.
To register and for further information on conflict coaching workshops including coordinating a workshop in your city or workplace, contact CINERGY® Coaching:
Phone: 416-686-4247, Toll free: 1-866-335-6466, Email: cinnie at cinergycoaching.com
CINERGY® Conflict Coaching = Peacebuilding, One Person at a Time
Cinnie Noble is a pioneer in the field of conflict coaching and the founder of the CINERGY® model of conflict management coaching. She is a lawyer-mediator, former social worker and certified coach. For further information on CINERGY®, feel free to visit www.cinergycoaching.com.
Britain is banning the use of cluster bombs by its armed forces, and has undertaken the destruction of its entire stockpile.
(...more)Tuesday, 6 July 2010 to Friday, 16 July 2010
International Nonviolence Summer Institute, at the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies
Three training options:
Recent participates have represented countries such as Somalia, Liberia, Cameroon, South Africa, Columbia, Ukraine, Tanzania, Tibet, Palestine, and Nigeria. The Institute also attracts participants from all over the US, joining together individuals from diverse cultural and political perspectives to find common ground in the principles and practices of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as an effective method for ending violence, achieving social justice, and creating the beloved community.
The attached flyer offers more detail for anyone who might be interested in any of these intensive trainings.
Please post or circulate to interested colleagues.
Online information is available at our
Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies Website
Or
CLICK HERE for more course details and On-Line registration options.
Have you ever thought about the way we attach an economic value to just about everything and then scheme and fight and maneuver to get more of whatever it is? We become downright obsessed with having things and defending our right to do as we wish with what is ours. The value of things is determined by how badly other people want them. The value of things goes up and down according to demand. Land, food, water, oil, energy, precious metals, “collectables”, antiques – they are all bought and sold and we have developed elaborate legal systems to protect all of these things from thieves and to make sure that transactions are done properly, or at least legally. Well – that’s the idea, anyway, wars and invasions and our treatment of First Nations peoples aside.
(...more)More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, calling for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth’s most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day…
In his message, Mr. Ban highlighted that water is vitally linked to all UN development goals, including maternal and child health and life expectancy, women’s empowerment, food security, sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
(...more)In 1994, the Rwandan woman hid with seven others inside a closet-sized bathroom for 91 days while 1 million of her countrymen died in a modern-day holocaust. The dead included most of her family.
Her life was in constant danger from roaming bands of killers. Remarkably, Ilibagiza and the others were never discovered.
Even more miraculous, her faith survived, and it enabled her to forgive those who slaughtered her family and so many others.
(...more)On February 18, 1977, a thousand Nigerian soldiers surrounded the Kalakuta Republic and burned it to the ground.
As republics go, Kalakuta wasn’t very large. Only 100 or so people lived there. But the immensely popular musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti had created this compound, in the Nigerian capital of Lagos, as a joyful and democratic space in an otherwise corrupt and dictatorial country. The sovereignty of Fela’s republic was always under threat. And even though the invaders threw his mother from the second floor on that day in 1977, and even though the soldiers cracked his skull, and even though the government jailed him for trying to defend himself, Fela continued to fight back. He used his Afrobeat music and biting lyrics as his weapon.
(...more)BEIJING — Like the United States, China is having its own tea party movement, but this one has a very different agenda.
Police have long tried to shush and isolate potential activists, usually starting with a low-key warning, perhaps over a meal or a cup of tea. Now, the country’s troublemakers are openly blogging and tweeting their stories about “drinking tea” with the cops, allowing the targeted citizens to bond and diluting the intimidation they feel.
(...more)After five years of trials, the grass roots courts that have judged more than one million people suspected of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide are drawing to a close amidst mixed reviews.
“The whole process is expected to be over by the end of March,” Denis Bikesha, an official at the gacaca department, told AFP.
(...more)Legal Aid is in crisis in this province. The funding model for the Legal Services Society doesn’t work and as a result there is simply not enough money to fund the current system. As a result, there are fewer and fewer lawyers (particularly more experienced lawyers) who are willing to take on legal aid cases. Those that do so in any significant way undoubtedly believe it as the right thing to do, not the financially sound thing to do.
The Legal Services Society has cut service areas, cut staff and in the very near future will close offices everywhere but in Vancouver. There has also been an attempt to shift the form of legal aid delivery from a lawyer model to a “self-help” model. The results of “self-help” are being felt in courtrooms across the province. They are being clogged with unrepresented litigants…
It’s time to get the public involved in a real and meaningful discussion about Legal Aid in our province – what the framework should be, what should be covered, who should deliver it and how it should be funded. Last spring, a group of justice system stakeholders passed a resolution (which was adopted by the British Columbia Branch) calling on the government to hold an inquiry into the state of Legal Aid in British Columbia…
We have begun discussions with other justice system stakeholders to establish a Public Forum on Legal Aid in British Columbia. While it is still in the planning stages, this Public Forum would travel the province and hear from members of the public and others who understand the problems of the current Legal Aid system.
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Peacemakers Trust has received an invitation from The Sharing Way, a Canadian faith-based development agency, and its Rwandan partner, the Association des Églises Baptistes au Rwanda (AEBR), to work with them to develop a three year plan of action that responds to emerging needs and challenges in post-genocide Rwanda. The participatory planning process will involve consultation and planning meetings with a number of Rwandan church leaders from around Rwanda, including women and youth leaders.
You can become a partner in raising the costs of this initiative with a tax-deductable donation to Peacemakers Trust, a Canadian charity focused on conflict transformation and peacebuilding. (read more…)
(...more)Friday, 1 October 2010 to Saturday, 2 October 2010
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity and Security in the Search for Peace
Hosted by Menno Simons College and Global College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ~ October 1-2, 2010
ANNOUNCING OUR 2010 CONFERENCE!
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders:
Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace
The 8th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
October 1-2, 2010
Menno Simons College and the Global College
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Top United Nations officials are marking International Women’s Day by calling for greater support to women, particularly in developing countries, so that they can be empowered and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the eight globally agreed anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline.
In his message for the Day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that “the third Millennium Development Goal – to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment – is central to all the rest. When women are denied the opportunity to better themselves and their societies, we all lose.
(...more)Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.
– Rosemary Brown, 1930-2003, Canadian politician
It is important on International Women’s Day we mark the progress made by so many women the world over.
Today provides an opportunity for all of us to celebrate the accomplishments of women, past and present, who fought for women’s rights, who pushed their way into old boys clubs to become members of government or doctors or astronauts.
(...more)Canadian men on average get paid more than 20% more than their female colleagues, giving the country one of the highest gender gaps among the 30 OECD nations.
Only Korea, Japan and Germany rank higher than Canada in paying men more than women. Canada is in fourth place along with the United Kingdom, according to Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development statistics.
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