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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

JOHAN GALTUNG to lead DC Peacebuilding Workshop: Worth Repeating this 2010 Democracy Now Broadcast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Galtung
JOHAN GALTUNG WORKSHOPS & LECTURE/RECEPTION with Diane PerlmanMarch 25, 2011
Search for Common Ground 4th floor 1601 Connecticut Ave., NW, Dupont Metro North ExitOutside the Box Strategies for Transforming a Seemingly Intractable Conflicts

9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:00 – 1:00 Workshop 1 – Training in Deep Culture, Deep Structure, Mediation & Positive Peace1:30 – 4:00 Workshop 2 – The New Situation in the Middle East
4:15 – 5:30 Lecture /Reception – The Israeli/Palestinian Conflict 6 State SolutionWorkshop 1 - $30.00 Workshop 2 - $25.00 Lecture/Reception $15.00 All 3 - $60.00
Healthy, vegetarian, low methane, low carbon, and mostly low carb snacks included
Space Limited, First come basis
Workshop 1 – Training in Deep Culture, Deep Structure, Mediation & Positive Peace This workshop will present the Transcend Method – creative, successful strategies that inform sound policies capable of breaking deadlocks and transforming challenging and dangerous conflicts.
Workshop 2 The New Situation in the Middle East This workshop will address of the uprisings in the Middle East, intervention in Libya and more.

Lecture/Reception – The 6 State Solution to the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict This core conflict fuels other conflicts, increasing tensions, driving extremism and inflaming anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiments. Military and political leaders recognize consequences for US security at home and abroad. Rather than blaming the inability to end this conflict on parties, we will consider decades of failure as a result of inadequate solutions based on old paradigms and narrow thinking that miss deep psychological forces and dynamics that provoke resistance and setbacks.

Outside-the-box thinking includes a proposal for a Middle East Community, MEC, and a regional Organization for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East, OSCME, modeled after the OSCE. Our approach will address issues of trauma, identity, fear, guilt, envy, humiliation, and systems theory. We will consider basic human needs, legitimate goals, and just grievances, and strategies for overcoming bitterness. We will explore the critical role and untapped contribution of conflict analysis in collaborating to design creative, transformative, sound solutions more capable of reducing tensions and transforming conflict

Dr. Johan Galtung is a pioneer in peace research and conflict transformation, founder and co-director of Transcend, originator of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and resolver of the 8 year conflict between Peru and Ecuador, consultant and advisor to many world leaders and organizations, focusing on strategies which create a new reality conducive to sustainable, enduring security.

Diane Perlman, PhD is a clinical and political psychologist, Visiting Scholar Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, a member of Transcend, Mediators Beyond Borders, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility, and Abolition 2000, working on the psychology of nuclear proliferation, terror reduction, enmity, reversing cycles of violence and reconciliation processes from perspectives of depth psychology, systems theory and conflict dynamics.

TO RESERVE - Email Diane Perlman, EnduringSecurity@gmail.com– give name, email address, phone # and which workshops, 1, 2, and/or 3. Pay at door on 3/25, If you have questions call Diane Perlman, 202 775 0777 cell 202 241 7018

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