Intercultural Facilitaiton for Preventing Discrimination is created for the participants of the similar project.The project is supported by European Youth Foundation of Council of Europe.
Here some useful links with international instruments for protection of the minorities rights:
1.Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display_doc.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greekhelsinki.gr%2Fpdf%2FFCNM-NGO-Guide.pdf&external=N
2. The International COnvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/100294.pdf
3. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/minorities.htm
4. Website of the European Commission Against Racism abd Intolerance: http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/default_en.asp
5. European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/html/148.htm
6.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
7. Internaitonal Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
8. Internaitional Convent on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm
9. Convention on Protection Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/html/005.htm
10.European Social Charter: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/163.htm
11. Convention on the Rights of the Child: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm
Introduction to Peace and Conflict. Do you remember our acitivity "4 concepts as 4 persons: Justice, Truth, Mercy and Peace"? Here is the background article be John Paul Lederach "The Meeting Place". Enjoy reading it.
John Paul Lederach, "The Meeting Place"* ________________________________________ Greatly distressed in the midst of a nasty conflict, I kept hearing the names of Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace invoked time and again. When the arguments and blows had gone round and round I made a proposal. "What if," I asked the people in this awful fight, "What if we invited our four friends to join us and asked them to openly discuss their views about conflict?" Locked in their righteous stances as they were, the people looked at me a bit stunned with such a ludicrous idea, but I proceeded without paying much attention. "I have seen them come and go in other fights. I could ask them to try to clear up a few things." Nobody objected, so I brought Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace into room and sat them down in front of the contentious crowd. I addressed the four. "We want to know what concerns you each have in the midst of conflict. Would it be possible to hear your views?"
To read the full article follow the link: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/transform/jplchpt.htm
What is dialogue for you? Dialogue - a proposal; why dialogue; purpose and meaning; what dialogue is not; how to start a dialogue; dialogue in existing organizations. The full text of the very influential paper by David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett:
Dialogue - a proposal Dialogue, as we are choosing to use the word, is a way of exploring the roots of the many crises that face humanity today. It enables inquiry into, and understanding of, the sorts of processes that fragment and interfere with real communication between individuals, nations and even different parts of the same organization. In our modern culture men and women are able to interact with one another in many ways: they can sing dance or play together with little difficulty but their ability to talk together about subjects that matter deeply to them seems invariable to lead to dispute, division and often to violence. In our view this condition points to a deep and pervasive defect in the process of human thought....
Follow the link to the full paper: http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/bohm_dialogue.htm
Conflict Mapping (By Paul Wehr) As conflict emerges, it produces considerable confusion. Interactions between the conflicting parties changes, sometimes radically and abruptly. Levels of unpredictability, uncertainty and emotion rise. Unwise and costly decisions are made from a lack of understanding of what is occurring. Since how a conflict emerges largely determines how costly it will subsequently be, those involved must have the clearest possible understanding of what is going on. Even the simplest interpersonal conflict has many elements. Conflicts involving multiple parties, large numbers of people, and complex organizations such as governments get to be enormously complicated. Some conflict theorists (Boulding 1988) present general principles for analysis. Others (Deutsch 1973) take a very detailed, microanalytical approach to understanding conflict. Still others (Blalock 1989) do both. Every conflict has certain basic elements permitting us to produce a roadmap by which a conflict opponent, a third party intervenor, or simply a student of conflict can find their way through a particular conflict (Wehr 1979). The primary items in this roadmap include the following: - Conflict Context - Parties - Causes and Consequences - Contrasting beliefs and values - Goals and Interests - Dynamics - Functions - Regulation Potential - Using the conflict map: A conflict mapper can use this mapping guide in numerous ways. It can be used by each party on its own, in an effort to clarify the conflict from their own perspective. Or it can be used jointly, in an effort to understand both sides' view of the conflict. A third party (such as a mediator) could interview the conflict parties with the guide, draft a map, ask the parties to modify it from their perspectives, redraft it, and present it as a first joint step toward cooperative resolution. Alternatively, this could be done by parties on one side who would solicit cooperation from their opponents in creating an accurate conflict map.
The ful article "Conflict Mapping" By Paul Wehr read here: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/cmap.htm
Here some useful links with international instruments for protection of the minorities rights:
ReplyDelete1.Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/display_doc.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greekhelsinki.gr%2Fpdf%2FFCNM-NGO-Guide.pdf&external=N
2. The International COnvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/100294.pdf
3. Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/minorities.htm
4. Website of the European Commission Against Racism abd Intolerance:
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/default_en.asp
5. European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages:
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/html/148.htm
6.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
7. Internaitonal Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
8. Internaitional Convent on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm
9. Convention on Protection Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms:
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/html/005.htm
10.European Social Charter:
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/163.htm
11. Convention on the Rights of the Child:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/crc.htm
Introduction to Peace and Conflict.
ReplyDeleteDo you remember our acitivity "4 concepts as 4 persons: Justice, Truth, Mercy and Peace"? Here is the background article be John Paul Lederach "The Meeting Place". Enjoy reading it.
John Paul Lederach, "The Meeting Place"*
________________________________________
Greatly distressed in the midst of a nasty conflict, I kept hearing the names of Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace invoked time and again. When the arguments and blows had gone round and round I made a proposal. "What if," I asked the people in this awful fight, "What if we invited our four friends to join us and asked them to openly discuss their views about conflict?"
Locked in their righteous stances as they were, the people looked at me a bit stunned with such a ludicrous idea, but I proceeded without paying much attention. "I have seen them come and go in other fights. I could ask them to try to clear up a few things."
Nobody objected, so I brought Truth, Mercy, Justice and Peace into room and sat them down in front of the contentious crowd. I addressed the four. "We want to know what concerns you each have in the midst of conflict. Would it be possible to hear your views?"
To read the full article follow the link:
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/transform/jplchpt.htm
What is dialogue for you? Dialogue - a proposal; why dialogue; purpose and meaning; what dialogue is not; how to start a dialogue; dialogue in existing organizations.
ReplyDeleteThe full text of the very influential paper by David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett:
Dialogue - a proposal
Dialogue, as we are choosing to use the word, is a way of exploring the roots of the many crises that face humanity today. It enables inquiry into, and understanding of, the sorts of processes that fragment and interfere with real communication between individuals, nations and even different parts of the same organization. In our modern culture men and women are able to interact with one another in many ways: they can sing dance or play together with little difficulty but their ability to talk together about subjects that matter deeply to them seems invariable to lead to dispute, division and often to violence. In our view this condition points to a deep and pervasive defect in the process of human thought....
Follow the link to the full paper:
http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/bohm_dialogue.htm
So, what is dialogue for you?
Conflict Mapping (By Paul Wehr)
ReplyDeleteAs conflict emerges, it produces considerable confusion. Interactions between the conflicting parties changes, sometimes radically and abruptly. Levels of unpredictability, uncertainty and emotion rise. Unwise and costly decisions are made from a lack of understanding of what is occurring. Since how a conflict emerges largely determines how costly it will subsequently be, those involved must have the clearest possible understanding of what is going on.
Even the simplest interpersonal conflict has many elements. Conflicts involving multiple parties, large numbers of people, and complex organizations such as governments get to be enormously complicated. Some conflict theorists (Boulding 1988) present general principles for analysis. Others (Deutsch 1973) take a very detailed, microanalytical approach to understanding conflict. Still others (Blalock 1989) do both. Every conflict has certain basic elements permitting us to produce a roadmap by which a conflict opponent, a third party intervenor, or simply a student of conflict can find their way through a particular conflict (Wehr 1979). The primary items in this roadmap include the following:
- Conflict Context
- Parties
- Causes and Consequences
- Contrasting beliefs and values
- Goals and Interests
- Dynamics
- Functions
- Regulation Potential
- Using the conflict map: A conflict mapper can use this mapping guide in numerous ways. It can be used by each party on its own, in an effort to clarify the conflict from their own perspective. Or it can be used jointly, in an effort to understand both sides' view of the conflict. A third party (such as a mediator) could interview the conflict parties with the guide, draft a map, ask the parties to modify it from their perspectives, redraft it, and present it as a first joint step toward cooperative resolution. Alternatively, this could be done by parties on one side who would solicit cooperation from their opponents in creating an accurate conflict map.
The ful article "Conflict Mapping" By Paul Wehr read here: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/treatment/cmap.htm