Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

Dear HumanDHS friends,

please find below a message from the Amarc-info-en mailing list. It includes the Johannesburg Declaration.

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff (more…)

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Conscious Communities: the Ninth Annual Conference on Peace Education in Canada

November 11 – 15, 2010 | McMaster University, Hamilton ON

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A core requirement of cultivating a culture of peace is growing sustainable, conscious communities that live, breathe, grow, learn, and thrive. With that in mind and heart, our focus this year will be celebrating and advancing “Conscious Communities” at the Ninth Annual Conference on Peace Education in Canada.

The conference will aim to advance the cultivation of peaceable communities at two scopes: local communities and communities of common interest.

The “local communities” scope will include the core educational needs that must be satisfied to allow all members of a physically local community to flourish. Topics explored may include but are not limited to: “transition towns” movement, local and organic foods, ecological literacy, renewable energy, arts, living wages, conflict transformation, Peace Cafés, School Peace Program, social entrepreneurship, education in local histories, storytelling, and participatory democracy.

The “communities of interest” scope will explore the unique challenges and needs of individuals that are not necessarily physically close to one another, but share common experiences. Topic areas explored may include but are not limited to: social networking, online collaboration methods, solidarity work, the exchange of best practices between communities, social entrepreneurship, new media, marginalized communities, fair trade, literacy, access to education, and more.

Call for Proposals

Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace is seeking proposals for workshops and presentations during the “Conscious Communities” conference. Workshops will be 50 or 100 minutes in length, and are encouraged to include participatory aspects to their design.

New this year: public mini-keynote presentations

Evenings of the conference will include a series of free, open-to-the-public 15-minute “mini-keynote” presentations at various locations in the city of Hamilton. Applicants are welcomed and encouraged to also propose a mini-keynote presentation either as a “sampler” of a proposed workshop, or of another topic of interest – keeping in mind that the audience demographics will be a more general public. Different forms of presentation will be considered for approval, including but not limited to a prepared talk, film short, multimedia, performance art, and storytelling.

For more information, registration, submission of proposals, and local (to Hamilton) nominations for mini-keynote presentations, see:
http://www.peace-education.ca/conferences/conscious-communities

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at conference /at/ peace-education.ca .

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Robert Gerald Porter, B.A. (Hons.)

Coordinator, Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace, Hamilton Centre

web: www.peace-education.ca | www.peacecafe.ca

email: rob@peacecafe.ca

twitter: @EducateForPeace | @thePeaceCafe

November 11 – 15, 2010 | McMaster University, Hamilton ON
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A core requirement of cultivating a culture of peace is growing sustainable, conscious communities that live, breathe, grow, learn, and thrive. With that in mind and heart, our focus this year will be celebrating and advancing “Conscious Communities” at the Ninth Annual Conference on Peace Education in Canada.

The conference will aim to advance the cultivation of peaceable communities at two scopes: local communities and communities of common interest.

The “local communities” scope will include the core educational needs that must be satisfied to allow all members of a physically local community to flourish. Topics explored may include but are not limited
to: “transition towns” movement, local and organic foods, ecological literacy, renewable energy, arts, living wages, conflict transformation, Peace Cafés, School Peace Program, social entrepreneurship, education in
local histories, storytelling, and participatory democracy.

The “communities of interest” scope will explore the unique challenges and needs of individuals that are not necessarily physically close to one another, but share common experiences. Topic areas explored may
include but are not limited to: social networking, online collaboration methods, solidarity work, the exchange of best practices between communities, social entrepreneurship, new media, marginalized communities, fair trade, literacy, access to education, and more.

Call for Proposals

Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace is seeking proposals for workshops and presentations during the “Conscious Communities” conference. Workshops will be 50 or 100 minutes in length, and are encouraged to
include participatory aspects to their design.

New this year: public mini-keynote presentations

Evenings of the conference will include a series of free, open-to-the-public 15-minute “mini-keynote” presentations at various locations in the city of Hamilton. Applicants are welcomed and encouraged to also propose a mini-keynote presentation either as a “sampler” of a proposed workshop, or of another topic of interest – keeping in mind that the audience demographics will be a more general public. Different forms of presentation will be considered for approval, including but not limited to a prepared talk, film short, multimedia, performance art, and storytelling.

For more information, registration, submission of proposals, and local (to Hamilton) nominations for mini-keynote presentations, see:
http://www.peace-education.ca/conferences/conscious-communities

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at
conference@peace-education.ca .

–
Robert Gerald Porter, B.A. (Hons.)
Coordinator, Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace, Hamilton Centre

phone:   (905) 523-0111
web:     www.peace-education.ca | www.peacecafe.ca
email:   rob@peacecafe.ca
twitter: @EducateForPeace  | @thePeaceCafe

Dear Readers,

please do not follow the original posting (see below). I have been informed that it is a scam! There is no such conference in London! Don’t follow the advise given below.

Sorry for having posted this.

Uli Spalthoff (more…)

First Call for Papers

International Conference
“Role of Translation in Nation Building, Nationalism and Supra-nationalism”

New Delhi, December 16-19, 2010

Jointly organized by
Indian Translators Association and Linguaindia Foundation (more…)

Another great information from the Peace and Collaborative Networking site. More details here.

Dear HumanDHS friends,

Francisco Gomes de Matos, our esteemed member of the Core and  Global Advisory Teams, made us aware of this conference in Neuchatel, Switzerland, 26 – 28 January 2011. The conference website is active.  Here excerpts from the conference announcement:

• The overall aim of this conference is to explore the various parameters that affect the way we process communicated information; as a case in point, this 2011 edition will focus on the issue of persuasive, manipulative, biased and fallacious verbal communication, with the goal of shedding light on different parameters that play a role in its ‘success’. In this respect, we seek contributions which specifically focus on those (formal, informal, cognitive, linguistic and contextual) aspects of communication that orient the interpretation of language and fulfil argumentative and persuasive ends, be it in interpersonal or mass communication.
• Submissions are invited by September 12 in the form of an abstract to be uploaded on the conference’s Easy Abstracts website: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/comcog2011

Kind regards,
Uli Spalthoff

This update was sent by  Nadine El Sarrag,  The Institute for Peace Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
E-mail: Nadine.Elsarrag /at/ bibalex.org, website: http://www.peacestudiesinstitute.org

The Institute for Peace Studies was launched in February 2006 by the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement (SMWIPM).

Updated schedule:

• Conflict Resolution: 3 to 13 July
• Research and Training Methods in Peace & Conflict Studies: 18 to 29 July
• Women and Peacebuilding: 25 September to 4 October
• The Challenges of Building Culture (s) of Peace: 9 to 17 October
• Mediation and Negotiation: 23 to 30 October
• Conflict Transformation: 1 to 11 November

1st Registration Period: from 7 May to 9 June 2010

2nd Registration Period: from 1 to 10 August 2010

Daily From 2:30 to 4:30 pm, except Fridays and Saturdays,

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center

For more information, please visit the website: www.peacestudiesinstitute.org

E-mail: ips /at/ bibalex.org

More info from:

Attention Social Justice Activists/Organizers:

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Northeast will host a Philadelphia regional training (Philadelphia, Chester, Camden, Trenton and Baltimore)

UNDOING RACISM™

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORKSHOP

Two and a half day training
July 23, 24 and 25, 2010
Friday evening, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.- 7 p.m., Sunday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Participants are required to attend the whole workshop.

$350 general/ $175 student rate (Limited work scholarships available)

This training is held at Temple University College of Health Professions
School of Social Work/Center for Social Policy and Community Development
Room 560, Ritter Hall Annex, 13th Street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Workshop participants will gain an understanding of racism: what it is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. The workshop stresses learning from history, developing leadership, maintaining accountability to communities of color, creating networks, undoing internalized oppression, and understanding the role of organizational gate-keeping in perpetuating racism. Participants will learn how to organize to undo racism.

Contact: Onaje Muid, MSW / Fatima Hafiz, PhD,   PI.NE.Phil /at/ gmail.com

Register online at www.antiracistalliance.com