Friday,
October 27
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS A
Early Morning 9:00 am - 10:20 am
A-1:
Ahmad
Hijazi, MA
(MA in Sociology from Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
is a Senior management member
of the School for Peace and Director of the Public Relations and Development
Department at
Neve Shalom / Wahat Al Salaam, Israel, a village, jointly established
by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, that is engaged in
educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two
peoples. He has presented
the unique programs of Neve
Shalom / Wahat Al Salaam at
the Annual International Conferences on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Web: http://www.nswas.com/
Ohad
Bar Shalom, MSW (Photo
to come)
is Senior psychotherapist (MSW from The Hebrew University
- Jerusalem), and supervisor at wAmcha - Center for psycho-social treatment
of holocaust survivors and their families. He specializes in individual,
couple and group psychotherapy of post-traumatic patients, including
survivors of sexual abuse
and assault, terror attacks, and war. He has facilitated Jewish-Arab
groups in conflict through the School for Peace in Neve Shalom/Wahat
Al Salaam, Isreal, where he has lived since 1994.
Web: http://www.nswas.com/
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A-2:
Stanley
Krippner, PhD,
is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco,
California, U.S.A., Author of numerous books, he is also co-editor of
The Psychological Effects of War Trauma on Civilians: An International
Perspective. He is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's
2002 Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement
of Psychology, and in 2003 he was the recipient of the Ashley Montagu
Peace Award at the Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution
in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has presented at
the Annual International Conferences on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Web: www.stanleykrippner.com
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A-3:
James O'Dea, PhD,
is the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a native of
Ireland. He was director of the Washington DC office of Amnesty International
for 10 years, and for 5 years was executive director of Seva, a non-profit
organization dedicated to international health & development issues
in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian reservations. He created
and for 5 years has co-lead a series of dialogues funded by the Fetzer
Institute called "Compassionate and Social Healing," bringing
together leaders and activists in a variety of fields related to human
rights, peace, and social reconciliation initiatives. He lived and worked
in Turkey and Lebanon, and witnessed civil conflict and massacres, which
influenced him deeply. He is a member of Ervin Laszlo's World Wisdom
Council.
Web: http://www.noetic.org/about/president.cfm
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A-4:
Brenda Naomi Rosenberg (see
Thursday Eve Presentation)
Josh
White Jr.
is a singer, songwriter,
recording artist, actor, adult and children's concert performer, teacher,
and social activist. His warmth and humor add to his eclectic approach
to touch the hearts of his audiences. His
singing career began on stage at
the age of four with
his father, well-known blues singer/guitarist, Josh White, and he has
been performing his brand of music around the globe since. His
nine solo albums include a collection of contemporary songs specially
written for "single-digit people," as Josh refers to his audience
of children and a tribute album to his father: "House of the Rising
Son."
Web: http://www.joshwhitejr.com/
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A-5:
Sen.
John Vasconcellos,
who's legislative career was distinguished
by his unique person-centered approach to public policy, represented
the heart of Silicon Valley for 38 years before retiring from the California
State Legislature on November 30, 2004. Much of his agenda has already
been adopted into law. At the same time, he has endeavored to advance
the central struggle of our society and our emerging culture -- to redefine
our sense of ourselves and our human nature in ways that enable us all
to flourish and reach our fullest potential. Concerned that John's vision
and leadership might dissipate and be lost after his departure from
the Legislature, friends and colleagues created The Vasconcellos Project.
Since its inception, what began as a modest effort to compile John's
works into a coherent and sustaining whole has grown into an entirely
new politics, the Politics of Trust.
Web: http://www.politicsoftrust.net/home.php
Marvalene
Hughes, PhD,
is the 9th and 1st woman president of Dillard University in New
Orleans, guiding it through a transformation following Hurricane Katrina.
Prior to this she served as President of Calif. State Univ. at
Stanislaus for 11 years, vice president & professor at the Univ.
of Minnesota; vice president & professor at the Univ. of Toledo;
assoc. vice president at Arizona State Univ.; and senior-level administrator
& professor at San Diego State Univ. She has chaired the collective
of African Amer. Presidents of all state colleges and universities and
the organization of all Women university presidents in the US for the
Assoc. of Amer. State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the group of
Vice Presidents of the Natl. Assoc. of State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges (NASULGC), served as Natl. President of the Amer. College Personnel
Assoc., President of the Natl. Assoc. of Counseling Center Directors,
is co-author of the AASCU / NASULGC national document on diversity,
and has initiated international partnerships with numerous universities
in other countries.
Web: http://www.dillard.edu/president/bio.asp
Abdul
Aziz Said, PhD,
is professor and director
of the American University’s Center for Global Peace, senior ranking
professor of international relations and first occupant of the Chair
of Islamic Peace, founded and directs the International Peace and Conflict
Resolution Division in the School of International Service, served as
advisor to the Democratic Principles Working Group of the United States
Department of State’s “Future of Iraq Project,” is consultant
to members of the Iraqi Governing Council. He writes frequently to regional
and international newspapers in the Arab world and has contributed editorials
to the Washington Post. He is the author of: Making Peace with Islam,
Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static, Concepts of International
Politics in Global Perspective, Cultural Diversity and Islam,
and Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practite.
Web: http://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/facultybiographies/said.htm
Gay
Leah (Swenson) Barfield,
PhD., Lic. MFT,
was a Fellow of Center for Studies of
the Person for nearly 30 year where she created one of the first Women's
Centers in San Diego and the Living Now Institute. With Carl R. Rogers
she directed the Carl Rogers Institute for Peace, a project applying
person-centered principles to real and potential crisis situations.
Currently semi-retired, she continues to offer workshops internationally,
mentor young therapists and is writing about her experiences over the
past 40 years as a "gatherer," social activist and stubborn
idealist.
Silvia Dubovoy, Ph.D.
(Photo to come)
in Psychology from Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, where she has been
a guest professor at the Department of Social Psychology, and where
she has lectured on Carl Rogers and the Person Centered Approach, Humanistic
Psychology and Social Psychology. From 1980 to 1986 she studied and
collaborated with Rogers, has been a member of the Center for Studies
of the Person in La Jolla, California since that time, and has been
a lecturer, examiner, and consultant for this association in several
countries. A Board Member of the Association Montessori Internationale
since 1982 and its NGO representative to the United Nations, she has
a Teacher Training Center in Maryland for a Masters in Education and
a Model School for children from 18 months to 6 years, in La Jolla,
California.
Maureen O'Hara, PhD (see
Thursday Eve Keynote)
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A-6:
Rabbi
Tirzah Firestone, MA , is an author,
psychotherapist, and spiritual leader of Congregation Nevei Kodesh in
Boulder, Colorado. Widely known for her groundbreaking work on the re-integration
of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism, Rabbi Firestone lectures
and teaches throughout the United States on spirituality, meditation,
and the integration of ancient mystical wisdom into contemporary life.
Web: http://www.tirzahfirestone.com/
Joseph Montville, PhD,
is a former career diplomat who specializes in the psychological roots
of ethnic and sectarian conflict. He is author/editor of Conflict and
Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies, and co-editor of The Psychodynamics
of International Relationships. Creator of the concept of track two
diplomacy, Montville has taught at American University and George Mason
University where he also chairs the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy,
and Conflict Resolution.
Web: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/crdc/montvillebio.html
Shadia Kanaan, MA,
MA in Political Science from Western Michigan University. She is
an American-Palestinian born in Nablus, West Bank, is active in the
Kalamazoo Peace movement, a member of both Kalamazoo Nonviolent Opponents
to War (KNOW) and Kalamazoo Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice,
and a co-founder of Kalamazoo Women in Black. She is part of the
BRIDGES organization, which centers on enhancing understanding between
the American-Arab Muslim community and Michigan law enforcement agencies. She
is a strong advocate of peace and justice issues and works to bring
understanding to a political resolution to the Palestinian /Israeli
conflict.
Paul Clements, PhD,
PhD
from Princeton University, teaches international
development administration at Western Michigan University and chairs
the Kalamazoo Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice. He publishes
on monitoring and evaluation of international development aid and he
is developing Rawlsian microfoundations for political analysis to improve
on those of rational choice theory. He has consulted on monitoring and
evaluation systems with the UN, the government of Brazil, and domestic
and international nonprofit organizations.
Mushtaq Luqmani, PhD,
Professor of Business at Western Michigan University, and former
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kalamazoo Islamic Center, is
a member of the Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice in Kalamazoo.
Alvaro
Cedeño, JD,
is a Lawyer with a Masters degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation
from the University of Tromsø, Norway. He has worked for nine
years facilitating processes of intercultural competence building. He
is currently the Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Trade of
Costa Rica, under president Oscar Arias. He has presented at the Annual
International Conferences on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
E-mail: alvaro.cedeno@gmail.com.
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS B
Late Morning 10:35 am - 12:00 pm
B-1:
Aftab
Omer, PhD
is President and core faculty at the Institute of
Imaginal Studies, formerly faculty in the Psychology Department at Sonoma
State University, and currently President of the Council on Humanistic
and Transpersonal Psychologies. His research has focused on the emergence
of human capacities within transformative learning communities and his
work has included assisting organizations in tapping the creative potentials
of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Born and raised in South Asia,
he was educated at M.I.T. and Brandeis University. His article entitled
"The Spacious Center: Leadership and the Creative Transformation
of Culture" has been recently published in Shift, the Institute
of Noetic Science's quarterly publication.
Web: http://www.imaginal.edu/
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B-2
Deborah Koff-Chapin, B.F.A. (Cooper
Union)
has been developing Touch Drawing since 1974 and has taught it to people
internationally. She is adjunct professor at California Institute of
Integral Studies and Wisdom University. Deborah is creator of SoulCards
1 & 2 and author of Drawing Out Your Soul.
Web: www.touchdrawing.com Email: center@touchdrawing.com
Mukti Khanna, PhD,
is a clinical psychologist and expressive arts therapist. She has
been integrating expressive arts languages into community dialogues
for cultural healing and transformation of trauma in diverse communities.
She is a professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
where she teaches Multicultural Counseling and expressive arts therapies
in Society, Politics, Behavior and Social Change. She
has presented at the Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution
in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Email: khannam@evergreen.edu
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B-3
Paul
Von Ward MSc, MPA,
is a former U.S. naval officer and American diplomat, founded the nonprofit
Delphi International, recognized for its groundbreaking work in citizen
diplomacy and cross-cultural education. He holds graduate degrees in
psychology from Harvard and Florida State University. His books include
Gods, Genes, & Consciousness and Our Solarian Legacy:
...Humans in a Self-Learning Universe. Email: paul@vonward.com.
Web: http://www.vonward.com.
Ilham
Heather Al-Sarraf, Ph.D., MFT,
is a clinical psychologist/licensed marriage, family, and child therapist.
Kaiser Permanente psychotherapist in L.A. area, president Al-Sarraf
Psychological Center, and adjunct professor at Glendale College. Specialist
in PTSD, conflict resolution, and mediation. International humanitarian,
cross-cultural researcher, and writer on psychological impacts of trauma
and disaster. She has presented
at the Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution in St.
Petersburg, Russia.
Email: ihbefree@aol.com
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B-4
Lee
Mun Wah, MS, MA
is Executive
Director and founder of StirFry Seminars, a nationally
acclaimed lecturer and trainer, a Chinese American community therapist,
documentary filmmaker, educator, performing poet, Asian Folkteller and
author. In 1993 his first film on Asian Americans, Stolen Ground,
won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Certificate
of Merit Award for Best Bay Area Documentary, his second film, The
Color of Fear, won the National Education Media Network’s Best
Social Documentary Award for 1995, and in 1998 Walking Each Other
Home won the Cindy International Film Festival’s Silver Medal
for Best Social Issues Award. In 1995 Oprah Winfrey televised a one
hour special on his work and life.
Web: http://www.stirfryseminars.com
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B-5
Kate
Runyon, et el (Biographical
information to come)
Web: http://www.afsc.org/about/default.htm
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B-6
David
Schoem, PhD,
is faculty director of the Michigan Community
Scholars Program, teaches in the University of Michigan, Sociology Department,
and served as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and Assistant
Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. He served as a PEW
National Learning Communities Fellow, has led faculty institutes on
diversity and intergroup dialogue, serves on the Steering Committee
of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, and was a consultant
to President Clinton's Initiative on Race. He has written extensively
on topics in higher education, including a recent book, Intergroup
Dialogue: Deliberative Democracy in School, College, Community and Workplace.
(U of Michigan Press).
Ahmad Hijazi, MA, MS, (see
A-1)
Ohad Bar Shalom, MSW, (see A-1)
Gorka
Espiau Idoiaga,
was director and spokesperson for Elkarri, the movement for dialogue
in the Basque region of Spain. He is also a member of the executive
board of the HEGOA University Institute for International Cooperation
and Peace at the University of the Basque Country and a member of the
European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation. Recently,
Espiau has been appointed as advisor for the peace process to the Basque
Presidency.
Web: http://www.elkarri.org
Lewis Gover, M.A., (Photo
to come)
Psychotherapist - Ph.D Candidate at Center
for Person-Centered Approach. After starting out in engineering and
computer science he received an MA in Guidance and Counseling in 1979,
worked with Vietnam Veterans, and began working with the Person-Centered
Approach, becoming deeply connected to Carl Rogers, Ruth Sanford, and
others. He worked with Ruth Sanford to start the “Experiencing
Diversity” workshop series that is now in its 14th year, and has
made presentations and offered experiential workshops on Diversity in
the US, Europe, South Africa and Asia.
Diane Perlman, PhD,
is a clinical and political psychologist interested in the psychology
of enmity, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, conflict transformation,
demystification, language, reframing the left-right duality as political
maturity, and the dynamics of paradigm. She is starting a social science
think tank in DC to inform strategy and policy design, and educate members
of media, think tanks, congress, activists and academics about nonviolent
strategies. She is a member of TRANSCEND and co-chair of the Committee
on Global Violence and Security for Psychologists for Social Responsibility,
and APA Div.48, the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence.
Webs: www.consciouspolitics.org -and-
www.humanchainreaction.org
Robert Oppenheimer, PsyD
has worked as a Psychologist and prevention
specialist in the Detroit area for 25 years, and has developed a person-centered
approach to prevention programming for students pre-school through high
school focused on helping children and youth develop personal goals,
life skills and inter-personal skills. Worked with Ruth Sanford and
others on staff of the Experiencing Diversity Workshops. He has presented
at the Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution in St.
Petersburg, Russia, the Association for the Development of the Person
Centered Approach and The Eastern Psychological Association. Currently
Director of school and community programs for The Growing Tree Program.
www.GrowingTreeProgram.org
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BI-PLENARY
SESSIONS C
Afternoon 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm
C-1
Sam
Keen, PhD
is a noted author,
professor, and philosopher who is known for his exploration of questions
regarding love, life, religion, and being a man in contemporary society.
He co-produced an award-winning PBS documentary, was the subject of
a Bill Moyers television special: Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen,
and for 20 years served as contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine.
In his keynote he will premiere the newly expanded update on his seminal
work "Faces of the Enemy" - including The Art of
Enemy Making, The New Enemy, and Beyond Enmity - which examines
the techniques of propaganda used to teach us "to hate all the
people our relatives hate.” His books include: Faces of the
Enemy, To Love and Be Loved, Hymns to an Unknown God, Fire in the Belly:
On Being A Man, Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions,Your
Mythic Journey
Website: http://samkeen.com/
Eyad
El Sarraj, MD,
is a psychiatrist, (MD Alexandria-Egypt, Psychiatry
in London-UK), human rights and peace activist, founder and Chairman
of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Secretary General of
the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizen’s Rights, member
of many local and international health and human rights organizations,
and winner of the Physicians for Human Rights Award in 1997 and the
Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders in 1998. His activity
in human rights has caused him hardships by both Israeli and Palestinian
Authorities, and in 1996 he was arrested and tortured for condemning
torture and violation of human rights by Palestinian Authorities. He
publishes extensively on issues of peace, civil society, human rights
and psycho-politics, including "Peace and the Children
of the Stone," and "They Never Promise Heaven,
Reflections on Sept. 11."
Web: http://www.gcmhp.net/eyad/index.htm
Ruchama
Marton, MD,
is a psychiatrist, feminist, and human rights activist, the founder
and President of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, 1988. Among her
publications is Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case
of Israel (1995) Zed Books, edited with Neve Gordon. Dr. Marton
is the recipient of several peace and human rights awards, including
the Emil Grunzweig Award for Human Rights, presented by the Association
for Civil Rights, Israel, and the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health
and Human Rights, 2002. She is one of 1000 women nominated for the 1000
women Nobel Peace Prize 2005.
Satsuki
Ina, PhD,
is a
licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in cross-cultural
counseling, interracial marriages, transracial adoptions and diversity
training, founder of the Family Study Center, and
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counselor Education, School
of Education, California State University, Sacramento. She
is a filmmaker who was born in a Japanese-American prison camp
during WW II. Her two award winning documentary films, Children
of the Camps and From a Silk Cocoon capture the trauma of
racism under cover of "national security."
Web: http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/project/workshop.html
Mohammed
Abu-Nimer, PhD,
is an associate professor at International Peace and Conflict Resolution
(IPCR) and director of Peacebuilding and Development Institute, American
University. Recent publications include: Unity in Diversity: Interfaith
Dialogue in the Middle East (Forthcoming USIP, 2007); Nonviolence
and Peacebuilding in Islam: Theory and Practice. (Gainsville: University
Press of Florida, 2003); Reconciliation, Justice, and Coexistence:
Theory and Practice (New York: Lexington, 2001).
Web: www.aupeace.org/faculty/abu-nimer
Gay Leah Barfield, Ph.D., (see
A-5)
Maureen O'Hara, PhD (see
A-5)
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C-2
Jamal
Dajani, BA,
(Collège des Frères,and
Columbia University in New York City, BA in Political Science) was born
and raised in Jerusalem, is an award winning producer and Director of
Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV, has produced over 1,000 installments
of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, and is winner of the prestigious
Peabody Award. He is a frequent guest on numerous national and international
media broadcast networks, has published many articles on the Middle
East, is the co-host of Arab Talk on KPOO radio, serves on the board
of New America Media, was President of the Arab Cultural & Community
Center in San Francisco, and was appointed to the San Francisco Immigrant
Rights Commission. In 2005, he completed Occupied Minds, a documentary
shedding light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Who Speaks
for Islam?, both aired on Link TV and PBS stations.
Web: http://www.jamaldajani.com/
David
Michaelis,
(Hebrew University, degree in philosophy and sociology) was born in
Jerusalem in 1945. He is on the Board of Directors for Internews Network,
is Director of Current Affairs for Link TV in San Francisco, has produced
and directed documentaries on social-political issues for the BBC Channel
4 in the UK and for ARD and ZDF in Germany, served as news editor in
London and Washington for ARD, and his work has been on the forefront
of legitimizing the rights of minorities in Israel. In October, 1993
he created the first satellite two way link between Tunis and Jerusalem
with Internews, and helped produce, with the Jerusalem Film Institute,
the Palestinian Broadcasting Conference held in Jerusalem in January
1994.
Web: http://davidmichaelis.blogspot.com/
Anna
Badkhen
is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. She has reported
extensively from the field on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir,
Somalia and the Middle East, and has covered stories in Iran and Gaza.
She is currently based on the East Coast.
Web: www.sfgate.com/chronicle
Lee Mun Wah, MA, MS, (see
B-4)
Jeffrey
Mishlove, Ph.D.,
is dean of consciousness studies at the University of Philosophical
Research. He is former host and producer of the national public television
series Thinking Allowed. He is author of The PK Man, The Roots of
Consciousness and Psi Development Systems.
Web: www.williamjames.com
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EVENING
PLENARY SESSIONS
Josh White Jr. (see
A-4) Dinner Performance: 5:45
- 6:15 pm
Sam
Keen, PhD Keynote:
6:15 - 7:15 pm (see
C-1)
PLENARY
PANEL: 7:30
- 9:30 pm
"Spirituality and Religion"
Huston
Smith, PhD,
is holder of 12 honorary degrees, is internationally
renowned as the world's leading philosopher, scholar, and author on
world religions, and has devoted his life to the study of Christianity,
Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, all of which he
believes in. His book The World's Religions has been the most
widely-used textbook on its subject for a third of a century - selling
over 2,500,000 copies worldwide. Bill Moyers devoted a 1996 5-part PBS
special to his life and work, "The Wisdom of Faith with Huston
Smith." He has produced three series for public television:
"The Religions of Man," "The Search for America,"
and "Science and Human Responsibility," and his
films on Hinduism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Sufism have won awards at international
film festivals. His most recent books include The Way Things Are,
Why Religion Matters, and Cleansing the Doors of Perception:
The Religious Significance of Entheogenic Plants and Chemicals.
His other books include One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the
Native American Church, and Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology.
He has authored over eighty articles in professional and popular journals.
Web: http://www.hustonsmith.net/
Archbishop Elias Chacour, (see
Thursday Eve Keynote)
Virginia Gray Henry-Blakemore, PhD Candidate, )
directs the interfaith publishing houses, Fons Vitae and Quinta
Essentia, is co-founder and trustee of the Islamic Texts Society of
Cambridge, UK, is an accomplished lecturer on world spirituality, symbolism,
art history, and film-making internationally who has taught at Dalton
and Fordham University, the Cairo American College, Cambridge University,
and Centre College, and has worked in Bosnian refugee camps. She
is a founding member of the Thomas Merton Center Foundation, and creates
annual interfaith congresses and major events for His Holiness the Dalai
Lama as well as for Thomas Merton in honor of his interfaith perspective.
She is also an author and film-maker.
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, MA, (see
A-6)
Geshe
Gendun Gyatso
was born in Tibet in 1961,
escaped to India in 1963, at the age of 8 became a Buddhist Monk at
Sera Je Monastic University in India, studying logic and epistemology,
the study of nature of knowledge, and in
1981 was fully ordained by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He studied in
the Geshe Program for 25 years including Tantric Study at Gyumed Tantric
College in India, and in 1993 was awarded his doctorate degree in Buddhist
Studies as a Doctor of Buddha's Philosophy (Geshe). He went on to study
comparative religion as a visiting scholar under the Boston University
Fellowship Program for Theological Study, and during his studies became
an affiliated Chaplain at Boston University and Chaplain at Harvard's
Dana Faber Cancer Institute.
Web: http://www.geshegendun.org/
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD,
(see C-2)
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PERFORMANCES:
9:30 - 11:30 pm
~ Robert Graham Small: "US
& THEM: Engaging Our Community
(Photo
o come)
with Story & Song"
is an internationally credited playwright,
dramaturge, director, designer, and teacher. His residencies include
the New York Shakespeare Festival, Chelsea Theatre Center, Yale Repertory
Theatre and Drama School, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
As a founder and Artistic Director of Shenandoah International Playwrights,
he has for 30 years worked playwrights and theatre artists from 39 states,
31 countries on six continents. Plays developed at Shenandoah have gone
on to be performed On and Off Broadway, and on stages and screens worldwide
~
Cultural
Song,
Music,
and Dance
Saturday,
October 28
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS D
Early Morning 9:00 am - 10:20 am
D 1:
Don
Edward Beck, PhD,
has developed, implemented, and taught the evolutionary
theory of Spiral Dynamics for over 3 decades, and is co-author of Spiral
Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change and The Crucible:
Forging South Africa's Future. As cofounder of the National Values
Center in Texas, and CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc., he employs
Spiral Dynamics to effect large-scale systems change in and among various
sectors and societies of the world. His career has taken him to such
diverse settings as 10 Downing Street to consult with Tony Blair's Policy
Unit, Chicago's south side to address problems faced by inner-city schools,
and the World Bank to consider the future of Afghanistan, including
63 trips to South Africa between 1981 and 1988. He taught for 20 years
at the University of North Texas, where he was named Outstanding Professor,
Honor Professor, and Outstanding Educator in America.
Web: http://spiraldynamics.net
Elza
Maalouf, JD,
president of Integral Insights Consulting, is a Lebanese-American speaker
working on Societal Transformation in the Arab world, and presently
involved in conflict resolution initiatives in Israel/Palestine and
in Lebanon. Elza is the co-founder of The Center for Human Emergence-Middle
East.
Web: http://www.elzamaalouf.com/
Bruce Gibb, PhD,
is an organizational psychologist, has been in private practice since
1973. He specializes in developing the human aspects of organizations,
the human system and is a co-inventor of large system interventions.
From living and working in five Latin American countries and working
in eight countries in Europe and Asia, he is both theoretically informed
and practically experienced in blending different cultures to build
effective organizations.
________________________________________
D 2:
Jamal Dajani, BA (see
C-2)
David Michaelis (see
C-2)
________________________________________
D 3:
Sharif
Abdullah, JD
(BA in Psychology, Clark University; juris doctor, Boston University)
is a leading proponent and catalyst for inclusive
social, cultural and spiritual transformation. He is currently founder
and president of Commonway Institute, dedicated to the creation of a
society that is in line with our deepest spiritual values - a society
that works for all. He has written The Power of One: Authentic
Leadership in Turbulent Times and Creating a World That Works
for All - winner of the Book of the Year Award (Current Events)
from the Independent Book Publishers Association. His work on humanistic
globalization has taken him to over two dozen countries and to every
continent, including peace building efforts in Sri Lanka. He has
presented at the Annual International Conferences on Conflict Resolution
in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Web: http://www.commonway.org
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D 4:
Stephen
Fabick, Ed.D
has been president of Psychologists for Social
Responsibility and is chair of its conflict resolution action committee.
He is also chair of the conflict resolution working group of the Society
for the Study of Peace, Conflict and War (Division 48 of the American
Psychological Association). He is a clinical and consulting psychologist
in Birmingham, MI and conducts workshops on conflict resolution.
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D 5:
Imam
Hassan Al-Qazwini
is one of America's most prominent Muslim spokespersons, and spiritual
leader of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest
mosque in the US. A well known and outspoken advocate for reconciliation,
cooperation, and solidarity between religious communities, both nationally
and internationally, he actively works with Christian and Jewish leaders
to help bridge differences and dispel prejudice, serves on numerous
interfaith councils and advisory boards, and represents the muslim community
at White House faith-based events. Originally from Karbala, Iraq and
a prominent family of clerics, he and his family were forced to flee
to Kuwait in 1980 due to their opposition to the Ba'athist regime, and
in 1992 settled in the US to serve American Muslims. His books include
Meditation in Sahehain and Prophet Mohammad: The Ethical Prospect.
Web: http://www.icofa.com/aboutus/imam.html and http://www.qazwini.org/
Archbishop Elias Chacour, (see
Thursday Eve Keynote)
Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, MA, (see
A-6)
Joseph Montville, PhD. (see
A-6)
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D 6:
Robert Oppenheimer PsyD, (see
B-6)
LaRon Williams, (see
Thursday Eve Performance)
Elizabeth Barton, PhD, (Photo
and Biographical information to come)
Josh White Jr., (see
A-4)
Hana Al Hasan, PhD candidate,
has worked with many international
organizations in the field of human rights and democracy, including
USAID, United Nations, European Commission, and UNSCO. She recently
assumed the post of Program Director for a USAID program in the West
Bank and Gaza, and is working with Common Bond Institute and other colleagues
to develop a child trauma treatment center in Nablus, West Bank, where
there currently are no such services - an idea that is materializing
and on the horizon of helping to heal child victims of war and violence.
She has presented at the Annual International
Conferences on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Alvaro Cedeno, JD, (see
A-6)
David Juarez, (Photo
to come)
Executive Director of New Latino Visions, Former Kalamazoo City
Commissioner and Community Activist.
James
Macsay, MA,
is President of Macsay & Associates, Inc. - specializing in communication,
organization development (OD) and training services for international
organizations. Specializes in: Consulting, workshop facilitation, team
building, coaching, interpersonal communication, 360 assessments and
engagement surveys supported with web-based technology. His operating
framework has come to include 'visioning' and understanding human behavior
in organizations through the lenses of Analytical and Gestalt psychology.
He sees this as a way to work with the contradictions and paradoxes
in organizational life, and helping individuals, teams and entire organizations
build relationships and get results.
Web: http://www.macsay.com/
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CONCURRENT
SESSIONS E
Late Morning 10:35 am - 12:00 pm
E 1:
Eyad Al Sarraj, MD, (see
C-1)
Ruchama Marton, MD, (see
C-1)
________________________________________
E 2:
Barbara
Marx Hubbard, Rs.D.,
is an author, public speaker, social innovator, and President of the
Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She graduated cum laude with a BA
in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College, received the 1st doctorate
in Conscious Evolution from Emerson Institute, and published one of
the first newsletters on evolutionary transformation called The Center
Letter in collaboration with Abraham H. Maslow, a founder of Humanistic
Psychology. She worked closely with Dr. Jonas Salk as one of the original
contributors to the Salk Institute. She has been offered a Barbara Marx
Hubbard Chair in Conscious Evolution at Wisdom University. Her books
include Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential,
Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, The Evolutionary
Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future, The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s
Odyssey toward the Future, and Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth.
Web: http://www.evolve.org/pub/doc/index2.html
________________________________________
E 3:
Zeitouna
group members
Laurie White, (Biographical
information to come)
Wadad Abed
is Director of Marketing at CIMdata consulting
firm, on the boards of the University Musical Society (UMS), the Arab
Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS), and the
Arab American Organization (AAO) of Ann Arbor, and is a cofounder of
Bustan al-Funun Foundation for Arab Arts in America, which promotes
understanding and appreciation between Americans and the Arab world.
Born in Nablus, Palestine before immigrating to the US, she has been
involved with peace and social justice issues internationally, with
a focus on the Middle East, and is currently involved in dialogue between
Arab and Jewish women to promote peaceful and just coexistence of the
Arab and Jewish peoples.
Irene Butter, PhD
degree in economics
from Duke Univ. in North Carolina, and
Professor emerita with 35 years teaching
and research experience at Univ. of Michigan, School of Public Health.
Born in Berlin, she grew up as a Jewish child in Nazi-occupied Europe
when her family immigrated to the Netherlands in 1937 were deported
to two German concentration camps in the early 1940's. Her Father did
not survive. Before her arrival in the United States at the end of 1945
she spent almost one year in a displaced persons camp in Algiers. She
has been Involved in peace and justice projects for most of her life,
including a focus on coexistence in the Middle East, spearheaded a group
that founded the Univ. of Michigan Raoul Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
series, and is co-founder of Zeitouna, a group of Arab and Jewish Women
working for Peace and Justice.
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E 4:
Sandy
Heierbacher, MA,
is the Director of the over 600-member National
Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) and its biennial national
conferences. Sandy has consulted for such organizations as the
Corporation for National Service, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and the Kettering Foundation in the areas of intergroup
dialogue, public participation and deliberative democracy. Sandy
has an M.A. from the School for International Training.
Web: www.thataway.org Email: sandy@thataway.org
________________________________________
E 5:
Ihsan
Alkhatib, Esq., MA, Attorney, is the
Director of Public Policy and Law for Life for Relief and Development,
a Michigan based international NGO. He is the chair of the advisory
board of the American Arab Anti- discrimination Committee- Michigan.
He taught political science in a number of American colleges and is
a PhD student in political science at Wayne State University.
Webs: www.adc.org -and- www.lifeusa.org
Satsuki Ina, PhD, (see
C-1)
________________________________________
E 6:
Alexander
Badkhen, MD, State Medical College in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Worked as psychiatrist & medical director at
outpatient alcohol & drug abuse clinic in St. Petersburg until the
late 80's. Psychotherapist and trainer. Co-founder,
HARMONY Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling, one of the first
independent, non-government psychological services in the Soviet Union
(1988). Director, International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling,
& Group Leadership (St. Petersburg, Russia). Co-founder of the Annual
International Conference on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg, Russia,
where he has also presented.
Web: www.inharmony.spb.ru/
Mark
Pevzner, MA, Clinical Psychologist.
Leningrad State Univ. Worked as clinical psychologist at outpatient
alcohol & drug abuse clinic in St. Petersburg, Russia until the
late 80's. Psychotherapist, trainer, and supervisor. Co-founder,
HARMONY Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling, one of the first
independent, non-government psychological service organizations in the
Soviet Union (1988). Director, Training Programs of HARMONY Institute.
Co-founder of the Annual International Conference on Conflict Resolution
in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he has also presented.
Web: www.inharmony.spb.ru/
Charles
Behling, PhD,
Charles Behling is Co-Director
of The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), and a member of the psychology
faculty at The University of Michigan. IGR is a nationally-recognized
program that trains students to participate in and facilitate dialogues
about conflictual issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other
social inequities.
Web: www.igr.umich.edu
A T Miller, PhD., (Photo
and Biographical information to come)
Jane
Dutton, PhD, is
William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration, Professor
of Management and Organizations. Professor of Psychology. Areas of expertise:
Positive Organizational Scholarship, High Quality Connections and Relationships
at Work, Compassion and Organizations, Issue Selling and Issue Management,
Identity and Identification in Organizations.
Web: www.bus.umich.edu/positive/POS-Research/Contributors/JaneDutton.htm
Margaret Warner, PhD, (Photo
to come)
is a Professor at the Chicago campus of the
Illinois School of Professional Psychology. She trained in client-centered
therapy at the Chicago Counseling Center, an offshoot of Carl Rogers'
original Center at the University of Chicago, and has a doctorate in
Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago.
Anna
Rodina, PhD,
is a professor of department of Psychological Aid, Hertzen State Pedagogical
University, St. Petersburg, Russia, and teaching faculty and dean of
International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling and Group Leadership
(HARMONY Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling). She has worked
with children with cancer and their parents using art-therapy, and has
been part of HARMONY Institute's treatment and rehabilitation service
to vicarium trauma victims of Beslan in Russia. She has presented at
the Annual International Conferences on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Web: www.inharmony.spb.ru/
James Macsay, MA (see
D-6)
________________________________________
BI-PLENARY
SESSIONS F
Afternoon 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm
F 1:
Sen. John Vasconcellos (see
A-5)
________________________________________
F 2:
Steve
Olweean, MA,
is founding Director of Common Bond Institute, President of International
Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA), and Past President of Association
for Humanistic Psychology. MA in Clinical Psychology. Treatment focus
is on recovery of victims and perpetrators of abuse, trauma recovery,
and healing negative belief systems. He has written and spoken internationally
on concepts of The OTHER and the dynamics of belief systems. Current
book project is "Psychological Concepts of The OTHER."
Founder of Annual International Conference on "Engaging The
Other," and co-founder of Annual International Conference on Conflict
Resolution, which has occurred in St. Petersburg, Russia for 15 years
and where he has also presented.
Web: www.cbiworld.org Email: SOlweean@aol.com
________________________________________
EVENING
PLENARY SESSIONS
Huston Smith, PhD, Keynote:
6:00 - 6:30 pm
(see Friday Eve Plenary
Panel)
Marianne Williamson Keynote:
6:30 - 7:00
pm
is an internationally acclaimed author, lecturer, and popular guest
on numerous television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good
Morning America, and Charlie Rose. Of her nine books published, four
have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, including A Return to Love
and Everyday Grace. Her titles also include Illuminata,
A Woman's Worth, Healing the Soul of America, and her newest:
The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life.
She also edited Imagine: What American Could Be in the 21st Century,
a compilation of essays by some of America's most visionary thinkers.
She founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program serving AIDS
victims, and The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation
to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. and has just launched a new
radio show aired on the new XM Radio block called 'Oprah and Friends'.
Web: www.marianne.com
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PLENARY
PANEL: 7:15
- 9:15 pm
" The Psychology and
Anthropology of The Other"
Maureen O'Hara, PhD, (see
A-5)
Aftab Omer, PhD, (see
B-1)
Don Edward Beck, PhD, (see
D-1)
Sharif Abdullah, JD (see
D-3)
Dan
Bar On, PhD,
(Ph.D.,
Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem) is Professor
of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion Univ.,
Israel, where he served as Chair 1993-1995 and again in 2003-5, co-director
of PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East) near Beit Jala,
PNA, together with Professor Sami Adwan of Bethlehem Univ.
In 1985 he launched pioneering field research in Germany, studying
psychological and moral after-effects of the Holocaust on children of
the perpetrators, leading to his
book Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich.
Since then he has brought together descendants of survivors and perpetrators
for five intensive encounters (the TRT group, shown on BBC TimeWatch
in 1993), as well as students from the third generation of both sides.
Additional books are Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust
Survivors' Families, and The
Indescribable and the Undiscussable. He was the Ida E. King Chair
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton College of New Jersey.
Web: http://www.bgu.ac.il/~danbaron/
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, (see
C-2)
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PERFORMANCES:
9:30 - 11:30 pm
~ Robert Small (see
Friday Eve Performance) ~
Live At Jacob's
Ladder
~
Cultural
Song, Music, and Dance
Sunday,
October 29
MORNING
PLENARY PANEL
9:00 am - 10:40 am
" Cultural Myths, Ethos, and Belief Systems"
James O'Dea, PhD, (see
A-3)
Barbara Marx Hubbard, RsD, (see
E-2)
Abdul Aziz Said, PhD, (see
A-5)
Sen. John Vasconcellos, (see
A-5)
Marvalene Hughes, PhD, (see
A-5)
Marilyn
(Chief Woman Among Chiefs) Youngbird, NAHHP,
is a Native American Holistic Health Practitioner, educator, lecturer,
& facilitator, and has a BA in Anthropology/Psychology. She conducts
diverse cross-cultural sensitivity training seminars and the practical
applications of traditional Native American health care nationally and
internationally, and has presented at the Annual International
Conference on Conflict Resolution in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Dan Bar On, PhD,
(see Saturday Eve Plenary Panel)
Aftab Omer, PhD, (see
B-1)
Maureen
O'Hara, PhD,
Keynote:
7:45 - 8:15 pm
Archbishop
Elias Chacour Keynote:
8:15 - 8:45 pm
Gemma
Bulos 
Brenda
Rosenberg - Reuniting
The Children of Abraham
LaRon
Williams