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)
________________________________________
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.
________________________________________
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
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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