PAST EVENTS
Pathways to Peace: Stories of Environment, Health, and Conflict
January 13, 2010 | 15:00
The Wilson Center for International Scholars
The Wilson Center for International Scholars
Pathways to Peace: Stories of Environment, Health, and Conflict
This seminar will be used to gather the best experience and thinking on current environmental practice, to help advance the issue of water as a resource, and to use environmental work around water as a case study for the lessons and challenges of global community engagement. In convening leading practitioners and thinkers in the field of environmental peace-building and focusing on the ever-present issue of water, we are trying as well to surface the lessons of human resources and how they impact the emerging global community.
Also available as live webcast on www.wilsoncenter.org
Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Political Violence
December 2, 2009 - December 6, 2009
University of Cape Town, South Africa
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Apology, forgiveness, reconciliation, truth, amnesty, restorative justice, national healing – these words have become part of the lexicon of a range of strategies to respond to past violations of human rights and their traumatic effects in post-conflict societies.
Probably more than any other process of dealing with historical trauma, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) re-introduced these concepts into public debate and brought them more sharply into global scholarly examination. Since the TRC completed its work, the process has been replicated in more than a dozen post-conflict settings globally. Some consider truth commissions and other similar public forums to represent a vision of democratic action in political life. They believe that bringing victims, perpetrators and beneficiaries of oppressive regimes together for sustained dialogue about the past is the only action that holds promise for lasting peace in post-conflict societies.
This is the reason the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that 2009 be declared the International Year of Reconciliation. In the words of this august body when it set its agenda to focus the world’s attention on Reconciliation in 2009, dialogue from opposing sides is “an essential element of peace and reconciliation.”
Probably more than any other process of dealing with historical trauma, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) re-introduced these concepts into public debate and brought them more sharply into global scholarly examination. Since the TRC completed its work, the process has been replicated in more than a dozen post-conflict settings globally. Some consider truth commissions and other similar public forums to represent a vision of democratic action in political life. They believe that bringing victims, perpetrators and beneficiaries of oppressive regimes together for sustained dialogue about the past is the only action that holds promise for lasting peace in post-conflict societies.
This is the reason the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that 2009 be declared the International Year of Reconciliation. In the words of this august body when it set its agenda to focus the world’s attention on Reconciliation in 2009, dialogue from opposing sides is “an essential element of peace and reconciliation.”
11th Annual International Leadership Association Meeting
November 11, 2009 - November 14, 2009
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic
The Fetzer Institute is partnering with the International Leadership Association (ILA) for the 11th Annual ILA Conference, November 11-14, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The theme for this year's conference is Leadership for Transformation.
The ILA annual conferences bring together leadership educators and scholars, business and community leaders, graduate and undergraduate students, leadership consultants and coaches, and others with a passion for leadership to share ideas and practices. Over 500 people are expected to attend the conference in Prague.
The ILA annual conferences bring together leadership educators and scholars, business and community leaders, graduate and undergraduate students, leadership consultants and coaches, and others with a passion for leadership to share ideas and practices. Over 500 people are expected to attend the conference in Prague.
The Fetzer Prize for Love & Forgiveness
September 27, 2009
Vancouver, British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Two friends, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, were honored with the Fetzer Prize for Love and Forgiveness on September 27, 2009.
Exploratory International Micro-dialogue Meeting
July 2, 2009 - July 5, 2009
Eranos
Eranos
The third dialogue in the series of the Transformative Power of Love, moderated by Larry Sullivan took place at Eranos July 2-5, 2009.
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