Bonn: Symposium “Peace on earth? – Initiatives for disarmament, non-violence and dialogue”
Beginn: Do 16. Sep 10:00:00 CEST 2010Ende: Do 16. Sep 17:00:00 CEST 2010
Ort: Uni Club Bonn, Konviktstr. 9, 53113 Bonn
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Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in cooperation with Development and Peace Foundation (SEF)
Symposium
“Peace on earth? – Initiatives for disarmament, non-violence and dialogue”
Cluster event in the framework of the 30th anniversary conference of the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) “CHANGINGcourse–reclaiming our future,“ Bonn
16 September 2010, 10:00–17:00 hrs Uni Club Bonn, Konviktstr. 9, 53113 Bonn
Program
Conference language: English
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About the symposium
From 14 to 19 September 2010 the anniversary conference of the Right Livelihood Award (“Alternative Nobel Prize”) will take place in Bonn. The title of this meeting of Alternative Nobel Laureates from the past 30 years is “CHANGINGcourse–reclaiming our future“.
During the conference, the Laureates will have the opportunity to network, to form new alliances to strengthen their work, to exchange experience, knowledge, the insights from successes and failures. Having become a tradition, these "family gatherings" are an important aspect of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation's work to continuously support its Recipients. On 16 September, Cluster events in Bonn are organized not only to exchange knowledge with local and international institutions and activists but also to discuss future scenarios for change.
Aim of the Cluster Event “Peace on earth?” is the implementation of dialogue and networking between international and national peace and conflict researchers on the one hand and Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award (RLA) on the other in
order to find
Program
09:30 – 10:00 10:00 – 10:10 10:10 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:30 11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:45 13:45 – 15:00
a basis for common activities in the future.
Registration Welcome by Peter J. Croll, (Director BICC) Panel 1 On the way to global zero–where are we now?
• Dr. Sverre Lodgaard (former Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway),
• Christopher Weeramantry (Laureate RLA, Sri Lanka), • Jerry Sommer (BICC, Germany, moderator)
Questions to be discussed:
- Are nuclear weapons illegal? - Most urgent concrete steps to be taken on the way to
“Global Zero”?
Coffee break Panel 2
Ethnic conflicts–solutions from theory and practical experience
• • •
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi (Laureate RLA, Kenya), Dr. Michael Ashkenazi (BICC, Great Britain), Dr. Jochen Hippler (Institute for Development and Peace
(INEF), Germany, moderator)
Questions to be discussed:
- What makes a conflict “ethnic”? (in contrast to other conflicts)?
- What does traditional conflict resolution mean? Which potential for conflict resolution does it possess? Which role do gender, religious and cultural aspects play?
- Cooperation of state and non-state actors? Lunch Panel 3
15:00 – 15.30 15.30 – 16:45
16:45 – 17:00
Victims of war–a challenge for post war reconciliation
• Katharina Kruhonja (Laureate RLA, Croatia), • Theo van Boven (Laureate RLA, The Netherlands), • Susanne Kjær (on behalf of Dr. Inge Genefke,
Laureate RLA, Denmark) • Andrea Warnecke (BICC, Germany, moderator)
Questions to be discussed:
- Social, political, economic and cultural conditions, various approaches to conflict transformation and consolidation measures to engage in sustainable "peacebuilding" with the aim of establishing viable peace structures?
- Implementation of reconciliation processes–what is the relationship between legal and psycho-social rehabilitation?
- How to meet psycho-social consequences of violent conflicts (especially gender violence) both on the individual and social level?
Coffee break Panel 4 Resource management in a fairer world
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Rene Ngongo (Laureate RLA, DRC), Mauricio Hernandez, Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Carare (ATCC), (Laureate RLA, Colombia), Wolf-Christian Paes (BICC, Germany, moderator)
Questions to be discussed:
- What does “resource curse” mean on a local level? - The responsibility of various actors (governments, producers,
international private companies, consumers). - Ideas and proposals to establish a fairer governance regime
for resource management. Wrap-up session
Response (Please register by 9 September 2010) Fax or e-mail to
BICC Susanne Heinke Pfarrer-Byns-Str. 1 53121 Bonn
Fax: +49 (0)228 911 96 22 E-Mail: pr@bicc.de)
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