7th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Association for Humanistic Psychology (USA)
Association for Transpersonal Psychology (USA)
Beyond Borders (USA)
Carl Rogers Institute for Peace (USA)
Center for Psychology and Social Change (USA)
Conflict Resolution Network of Australia (Australia)
Coventry University Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
(England)
Earth Circle Sanctuary (USA)
Esalen Institute Russian/American Center (USA)
Foundation for Community Encouragement (USA)
German Association for Humanistic Psychology (Germany)
German Institute of Humanistic Psychology (Germany)
Global Intuition Network (USA)
Global Thinking Project (USA)
Global Process Work Institute (USA)
Heart With Wings (USA)
Institute for Global Education (USA)
Institute of Noetic Sciences (USA)
Institute for Transpersonal Psychology (USA)
International Center for Nonviolent Communication (USA)
International Conflict Resolution Center of Australia (Australia)
International Network for the Dances of Universal Peace (England)
Islamic Association for Humanistic Psychology (Iran)
Japanese Association for Humanistic Psychology (Japan)
Lithuanian Association for Humanistic Psychology (Lithuania)
Lithuanian Group Psychotherapy Association (Lithuania)
Maagalim Institute of Psychology and Counseling (Israel)
Moscow State University (Russia)
Moscow Association for Humanistic Psychology (Russia)
New Age Journal (USA)
Northern Mexico Humanistic Psychology Association (Mexico)
Ontic Existential Maieutics Association Italy (Italy)
Organizational Development Institute (USA)
Person Centered Expressive Therapy Institute (USA)
Psychologists for Social Responsibility (USA)
Physicians for Social Responsibility (USA)
Psychosomatic Ontosophy Association of Italy (Italy)
Rural Southern Voice for Peace (USA)
Russian Association of Telephonic Emergency Services (Russia)
Russian Independent Psychiatric Association (Russia)
Saybrook Institute (USA)
St. Petersburg Association for Humanistic Psychology (Russia)
St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
Transnational Perspectives (Switzerland)
Union Institute (USA)
United Nations Non-Gov. Organization for the University of Peace (USA)
Vilnius University (Lithuania)
Wonkwang University of South Korea (South Korea)
THESE EFFORTS HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT OVER THE YEARS FROM:
Office of the President of the United States
Office of the President of Russia
Office of the Governor of St. Petersburg
Grand Traverse Band of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
* Graduate course credit is available through Saybrook Institute
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ICR CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
COMMON BOND INSTITUTE (CBI) is a US based organization that grew out of the
Association for Humanistic Psychology's Soviet-American (International)
Professional Exchange. First established in 1990, CBI operates and supports
concrete projects and actively provides networking and coordination support
to
assist newly developing human service organizations in developing countries
and the post-communist world. It organizes and sponsors professional
training
programs, conferences, and exchanges internationally.
It also provides assistance in the form of generating donations of
professional materials, equipment, and supplies for these essential human
services.
In 1992 it established and co-sponsors the Annual International Conference
on
Conflict Resolution (ICR) in cooperation with HARMONY Institute of
Psychotherapy and Counseling of St. Petersburg, Russia, occurring each May
in
St. Petersburg and open to all participants globally. These multi-
disciplinary, practical conferences have been supported by President
Clinton,
President Yeltsin, St. Petersburg Governor Yakovlev, and endorsed by over 50
universities and organizations internationally, and bring together hundreds
of
presenters and participants from around the world for hands-on skills
training
in conflict resolution and transformation.
In 1998 it established the International Training Project in Conflict
Resolution as an extension of the Annual International Conference on
Conflict
Resolution. In addition to it's ongoing purposes, the annual May ICR
Conference serves as a major networking and recruiting source for training
programs in this project. Training is geared toward any individuals
interested
in developing and practicing personal and professional skills in conflict
resolution, and to representatives of local groups currently involved in
mediation and resolution efforts within various regional, social, or ethnic
conflicts in the world. The intent is to also conduct joint cross-cultural
trainings with teams of participants from different regions of conflict, and
in some cases to involve participants representing two or more opposing
sides
in existing conflicts.
Current projects under development in cooperation with HARMONY Institute
include:
- A global internet link, including a virtual resource library of programs &
curriculums from the annual conferences, a virtual journal of collected
papers
from the conferences and
trainings, and an e-mail conference to maintain contact between participants
and provide
networking, support, and follow-through between events.
- A hard copy journal and resource library.
- Establishing a support network of organizations and projects that have
grown
out of the
ICR Conference.
- Assisting the establishment and development of locally based professional
schools and
practical training programs in human services to assist in forming core
mentor
groups in
region of the Former Soviet Union and other countries.
CBI is grounded in the application of humanistic psychology's principles in
helping to create a world culture of peace. It works to actively network and
form strategic alliances with organizations and individuals committed to
providing the individual in society with practical skills and visions for
transforming conflict in their day to day lives, the recovery of developing
societies and post-communist societies, and in nurturing global
relationships
as a whole at the grass-roots level.
"HARMONY" INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING is a pioneering,
humanistically oriented psychological treatment, training, and research
center
in St. Petersburg, Russia. Formed in July, 1988, it was one of the first
free,
non-governmental human service organizations in the old Soviet Union. It is
highly respected throughout the Former Soviet Union for its innovative role
in
the new Russian psychology and is currently one of the primary coordinating
and training center for hotline and emergency services, as well as practical
training for psychotherapists and educators, in Russia.
In 1995 it
established
the internationally endorsed International School for Psychotherapy,
Counseling, and Group Leadership and became the 1st international member of
the US based Consortium of Diversified Psychology Programs. Of the 100+
phone
crisis line and drop-in centers currently operating in the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), HARMONY has directly trained staff and assisted in
establishing more than half.
It's staff of 40 professionals provide comprehensive psychotherapeutic
services, as well as free hotline & emergency crisis intervention services,
to
all age groups in St. Petersburg. In addition to providing ongoing
professional training workshops of their own spanning the entire Former
Soviet
Union, it has been responsible for sponsoring more than 200 workshops and
trainings over the past 9 years by professionals from the US, Canada,
Israel,
and Western Europe.
HARMONY is a primary founder and sponsor of the St. Petersburg Association
for
Humanistic Psychology, and the Russian Association of Telephonic Emergency
Services. It assisted in establishing and sponsoring the AA movement in St.
Petersburg, and actively collaborates with the Russian Children's Fund on
projects. In partnership with Common Bond Institute, HARMONY jointly
established and co-sponsors the Annual International Conference on Conflict
Resolution and the International Professional Training Project in Conflict
Resolution.
Current projects under development in cooperation with Common Bond Institute
include:
- A global internet link, including a virtual resource library of programs &
curriculums from
the annual conferences, a virtual journal of collected papers from the
conferences and
trainings, and an e-mail conference to maintain contact between participants
and provide
networking, support, and follow-through between events.
- A hard copy journal and resource library.
- Establishing a support network of organizations and projects that have
grown
out of the
ICR Conference.
For information on HARMONY Institute "only", contact:
Alexander Badkhen, Dir. of International Programs, Mark Pevzner, Board
Chairman
av. Gastello, 9 St. Petersburg, 196066 Russia Tel: 7-812-293-1330
Fax:293-1330
E-mail:badkhen@harmony.harmony.spb.su
(or)pevzner@training.spb.su
