The 28th O.D. World Conference On Making Change Happen, and the 38th Annual O.D. Information Exchange will be June 8-14. On the Island of Sardinia, off the coast of Italy. For more information, contact Organization Development Institute, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, DonWCole@aol.com, www.odinstitute.org.
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“Youth and Conflict: Global Challenges – Local Strategies”: International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education is in Highland Hills, Ohio, March 27 – 29 (Pre-Conference Trainings March 27). For details go to: www.tri-c.edu/community/girc/conflict/default.htm.
Human Rights and Social Justice: 2008 and Beyond Conference is April 4, at Florida Atlantic University-Davie campus in Ft. Lauderdale, FK. For information contact: Laura Finley, lauraleefinley@hotmail.com.
Mountain States Regional Peace Conference is in Denver, CO, April 4-6. For details contact http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001ymKReuXSa2uHlH0hBx9y6wTIWzI0S19uxgpPGgNgJevi0YeeTaHszGl5ZOp4ojdlkQo7jLpYKwY4FFy6oFFNhzPF9SP8u1Y7DHu5vzTjlD8BaU2ExZRvDg==.
2008 Undergraduate Peace Conference: “Bringing Peace Down to Earth” is April 4 – 5 at the Hesburgh Center for International Studies University of Notre Dame, Notre dame, IN. For more information go to: http://kroc.nd.edu/events/08peaceconjones.shtml.
Midwest Peace and Justice Summit is at IUPUI in Indianapolis, IN, April 5. For details contact Harry Targ: targ@purdue.edu.
Israeli-Palestinian Workshop on Education for Peace is at Tantur, Jerusalem, Israel, April 11-12. For information go to: http://www.ipcri.org.
Annual Space Organizing Conference, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space is April 11-13, in Omaha, Nebraska. The conference is hosted by Global Network affiliate Nebraskans for Peace. For information contact: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, PO Box 652 Brunswick, Maine 04011, globalnet@mindspring.com (207) 443-9502 or nfpstate@nebraskansforpeace.org, (402)475-4620, http://www.space4peace.org, (Blog: http://space4peace.blogspot.com).
The Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace Conference with participants from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska is in Vancouver, WA at the Red Lion Hotel on the Columbia River, April 11 – 13. For information go to: www.peak.org/~innercom/ORSDOPC.html or contact: David Hazen, (541)343-2109, innercom@peak.org.
The Conference on the Future of Catholic Peacebuilding will be held at McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame, April 13-15, sponsored by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network (CPN) and 18 other academic and Church institutions. For more information go to: http://cpn.nd.edu/2008CPNConference.shtml.
The third annual Nonviolence Teachers Conference will be held July 18-19 at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, CA. For details go to: www.mettacenter.org or www.efnv.org, or contact info@mettacenter.org.
Conference: “Global Legacies of Non-Violence: From Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr.” is April 17-18 at Oakton Community College, Ray Hartstein Campus, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie, IL. For information contact Katherine Schuster, Ph.D., schuster@oakton.edu, http://www.oakton.edu/~schuster/indiafulbright/gandhikingconf.htm.
Earth Day is April 22, with events at many locations.
XXII Galician-Portuguese Meeting of Educators for Peace is in Vigo, Spain, April 18-20, a celebration of the 25th year anniversary of the Educadores Pola Paz Nova Escola Galega. For more information visit: www.educadorespolapaz.org or e-mail: organizacion@educadorespolapaz.org.
Rotary Peace Summit is April 23 – 27 in Windsor, Ontario. For details go to www.rotarypeacesummit.com
2nd International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education, Youth and Conflict: Global Challenges – Local Strategies, Summit Collaborative Community and Higher Education Initiative Workshop Series, Exploring Humanitarian Law (EHL): “War, Justice, and Human Dignity” workshops May 2 and 24 at Cuyahoga Community College – Eastern Campus, 4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, Ohio 44122. For details and registration contact Marcelle Eades, Global Issues Resource Center, Cuyahoga Community College, 4250 Richmond Road, Bldg. EEC, Room 115, Highland Hills, Ohio 44122, Marcelle.Eades@tri-c.edu or Jennifer Batton (216)987-2231, Jennifer.Batton@tri-c.edu.
The Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War is May 4-6, in Tokyo, Japan. For details go to: http://www.article-9.org/en/about/index.html.
The Peace Action Training Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) and Ministry for Peace will be hosting two trainings in May 2008 in London. Systemic Peacebuilding: Enhancing Coherence and Effectiveness in Policy and on-the-ground Peacebuilding, May 6-8, brings key experiences and best practices in systemic peacebuilding to help integrate them into work, improve quality and coherence, and enhance impact and effectiveness. Transformative Mediation is a two-day program drawing upon lessons and experiences in applied mediation, international peacemaking and multi-track diplomacy, exploring keys to successful and effective mediation in addressing national and international conflicts and crises. For information contact diana.basterfield@ministryforpeace.org, or training@patrir.ro, http://www.patrir.ro/training.
The Global Studies Conference is at the University of Illinois, Chicago, May 16-18. The Global Studies Conference and Global Studies Journal are devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. This journal and the conference attempt to do this from many points of view, from many locations in the world, and in a wide-angle kaleidoscopic fashion. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is February14. For details go to: http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com.
9th Mindanao Peace building Institute – Philippines is May 19-June 06, organized by The Catholic Relief Services- Philippine Program in collaboration with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), This institute, which will run for three weeks, will bring together a wide range of people with experience, knowledge and skills in peace-related work. Intensive training in areas such as religious peace building, mediation, grassroots peace work, and conflict transformation will hopefully increase such skills, drawing on the shared knowledge of both the participants and the facilitators. For more information contact: mindanao.pb.institute@gmail.com or mpi@ph.seapro.crs.org.
“Building a New World“ is at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia, May 22-25, with many leading peace and justice activists. For details go to: http://www.wpaconference.org/.
Global Forum of Universities on the Power of Peace Network is May 29-31, at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. The event will feature the founders of the Power of Peace Network speaking about their vision and converse with young people about the potential of new media as a means of encouraging cultural engagement and interaction, as well as the various ways in which universities might participate in the initiative. Fro details go to: http://artsonline.uwaterloo.ca/ppn. or contact Brandi Gillett Woods (519)888-4567 ext 38242, bgillett@uwaterloo.ca, https://www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca/horde_3.1/imp/message.php?index=27274#.
Third Biennial National Humanistic Conference, “Building Truth, Building Trust: A Humanistic Vision for the Planet is at California State University, Northbridge, June 6-8, Cosponsored by CSU Northbridge and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. For details contact Stan Charnofsky, Sept. of Educational Psychology and Counseling, CSUN, Northridge, CA 91330 (818)677-2548, stan.charnofsky@csun.edu.
“Sustainable Development in Ecotourism at the Base of the Socioeconomic Pyramid” is in Quito, Ecuador – (Tentative) June 13-23. for details go to: http://www.bcaabroad.com/Programs/International/Ecuador_Seminar.asp.
Alliance for Conflict Transformation Summer Institute on Peacebuilding & Conflict Resolution (IPCR) is June 14 – July 12, in Santa Cruz and La Paz, Bolivia, organized in partnership with Nur University. For more information contact Nike Carstarphen, Ph.D. Co-Founder/Senior Partner, Alliance for Conflict Transformation, PO Box 9117, Alexandria, VA 22304 (703)461-3650, ipcr@conflicttransformation.org, http://www.conflicttransformation.org.
The Eighteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations is at HEC: (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales), University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 17-20. For information go to: http://www.Diversity-Conference.com.
The conference “The New Meanings of Peace after 9/11, 2001” will place in Tetuan, Morocco, June 19-21. For information go to: http://newmeaningsofpeaceconference2008.blogspot.com/.
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, 19th International Summer School on Human Rights is at Warsaw-Miedzeszyn, Poland, June 21-28. Fro information visit: http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/news130-en.html.
The Coalition for Work with Psychotrauma and Peace (CWWPP) Program in Post-Conflict Studies 2008 in Vukovar, Croatia: arrival: No later than June15, Intensive Course: Monday, June 16, – July, 11. The Optional Project Period: July 14 – August 29. The general aim of the program is for the student to obtain a general idea of the practical aspects of post-conflict areas and, in an optional project period to investigate one facet in detail. Application deadline is May 15. More information about the Institute and other aspects of the CWWPP can be found on the CWWPP website, www.cwwpp.org.
The Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM) is putting on the conference, “Nationalism, Ethnicity and Citizenship: Whose Citizens? Whose Rights?” June 30 at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. CRONEM’s 2008 conference will address issues bound up with nationalism, ethnicity and citizenship from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Multicultural societies raise crucial challenges for traditional conceptions of nations and citizenship. Ethnic diversity can mean that significant numbers of people are excluded from national projects, while the ‘melting pot’ metaphor belies the complexities of societies in which minority communities seek to protect their heritages and resist incorporation into the nation or state. The conference is also concerned that conceptions of citizenship appear to be undergoing transformation, and Civic engagement and participation are frequently viewed as being more effective in achieving social change than traditional forms of political representation. Also to be addressed is that at the international level, the sovereignty of the nation state has been increasingly challenged in the name of protecting or asserting universal human rights. Please send submissions to Mirela Dumic m.dumic@surrey.ac.uk, by February 1. Registration and venue details are at: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/registration08.htm.
The Seventh Annual Conference of Globalization for the Common Good: An Inter-faith Perspective “From the Middle East to Asia Pacific: Arc of Conflict or Dialogue of Cultures and Religions?” will be at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 30 – July 4, 2008. For details contact Dr. Kamran Mofid at k.mofid@btopenworld.com, http://www.globalisationforthecommongood.
“Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development” – 2008 Global Conference is in Belgium, July 15-19. For details go to: www.ipra2008.org
The New Meanings of Peace after 9/11, 2001 is to take place in Tetuan (Morocco), June 19-21. For details go to: http://newmeaningsofpeaceconference2008.blogspot.com/
The 22nd Global Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), “Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development,” is be hosted by the University of Leuven, Belgium, July 15-19, 2008. For details go to: www.ipra2008.org.
Tamara, Portugal Summer University 2008, “Be the Change – Youth for a Future without War,” is July 21-20. For information go to: http://summeruniversity.tamera.org/. Also, May 1st – 30th is Ecovillage Design Education. Details are available at: http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=335. For more on both programs, contact Peter Koll, Tamera Team, Monte Cerro, P – 7630 Colos, Tel: +351 – 283 – 635 – 306, peter.koll@tamera.org, www.tamera.org.
The International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) 2008 will take place from July 28 to August 4 in Haifa, Israel hosted by the Jewish-Arab Center of the University of Haifa and the Center of Critical Pedagogy of Kibbutzim College of Education. The event is being co-organized by the above hosts and the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University in partnership with Global Education Associates. For information contact Global Education Associates, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1626B, New York, NY 10115 (212)870-3290. info@i-i-p-e.org, http://www.tc.edu/PeaceEd/IIPE.
The 3rd Annual International Conference on “ENGAGING THE OTHER:” The Power of Compassion is September 4 – 7, in San Francisco, CA. This is an international, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary conference examining concepts of “The OTHER” from a universal, cross-cultural perspective to promote wider public dialogue about concepts of “Us and Them,” Sponsored by Common Bond Institute, Co-sponsored by International Humanistic Psychology Association, and Supported by a growing international list of over 85 organizations and universities. For conference details go to: www.cbiworld.org/Pages/Conferences_ETO.htm.
“Building Cultures of Peace:” the 6th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association in conjunction with the Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium is September 11-14, at Portland State University, Portland, OR. Proposal deadline is April 1. For details go to: http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/submitprop.php, or contact Steve Olweean, Director, Conference Coordinator, 12170 S. Pine Ayr Drive, Climax, MI 49034 Phone/FAX: (269)665-9393, SOlweean@aol.com,
Taos Institute’s 2008 Conference, “Dialogues that Deliver: Generative Practices in Collaboration, Conflict and Community: Social Construction, Relational Theory and Transformative Practice” is September 25-28 in Sarasota, FL. For information, including a listing of upcoming workshops, go to: http://www.taosinstitute.net/.
The Annual Alberta Peace Education Conference is September 27 – 28in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For more information and/or to participate in the planning, contact Bob Stewart at: stewartr@peace.ca.
The Fourth National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) Conference will be October 3-5, in Austin, Texas. For details go to: (http://wms3.streamhoster.com/faq/clients/ncdd.
The Second Canadian Culture of Peace Symposium is October 3 – 4 at the Hamilton Centre for Teaching Peace, 27 King William Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The Conference Theme is tentatively titled, “Manifesting the Canadian Culture of Peace Program at the Community/Local Level”. For details go to: http://www.peace.ca/CCOPPaction2004.htm.
Candler School of Theology will be hosting a national conference “Re-Imagining Leadership for a Hope-Filled Future: Partnering Religious and Civic Communities” October 12-14, at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The purpose is to gather a diverse array of people from educational, non-profit, political, religious and business sectors to share research, visions, and best practices that re-define what it means to be a leader, who counts as a leader, and what leadership means/requires in various vocational contexts. There is particular interest in including people in the conference who are invested in developing leaders who are committed to peace and justice, or who are doing research on peacemaking, nonviolent strategies for social change, conflict transformation, etc. Proposals for presentations are due April 11. For information or to make suggestions for the conference contact Beth Corrie, PhD, Chair, Candler Fall Conference, Interim Director of the Youth Theological Initiative and Lecturer in Youth Education and Peacebuilding, Bishops Hall 309, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, ecorrie@emory.edu. or Thomas V. Flores, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322 (404)727-7394, tvflore@emory.edu,
“Learning Democracy by Doing, Alternative Practices in Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy” is in Toronto, Canada, October 16-18. This international conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical intersections between social action learning and participatory democracy, and their contribution to nurturing both an enlightened and active citizenship, and stronger and deeper democracies. For further information, visit: tlc.oise.utoronto.co.
The Seventh Annual Conference on Peace Education in Canada is November 21st to November 23rd, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, primarily at McMaster University. For more information contact Hamilton Centre for Teaching Peace “Peace Café” (905) 523-0111, conference@peace-education.ca, http://www.peace-education.ca/pec/.
The Sixth Annual Winter Course on Forced Migration, organized by Calcutta Research Group, certified by the UNHCR and supported by the Government of Finland and the Brookings Institution is December 1-15, in Kolkata, India. The winter course is aimed at scholars and educationists working on issues of rights and justice, functionaries of humanitarian organizations, national human rights institutions, peace studies scholars and activists, and minority groups, refugee communities, and women’s rights activists. For details contact Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, GC 45 Sector III First Floor, Salt Lake, Kolkata -700106, Phone No: 23370408, Fax: 23371523, www.mcrg.ac.in.
The 8th GCG Annual International Conference of Globalisation for the Common Good, will be at Loyola University in Chicago, supported by Loyola University, in June 2009. For information, as it develop, go to: http://www.luc.edu/index.shtml or contact Kamran Mofid, via: www.globalisationforthecommongood.info.
