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Additional Efforts
New Projects and Events Currently Under
Development
and Those Being Planned
Projects
Transgenerational Trauma:
A project to promote cross-cultural research and study on the dynamics
of Transgenerational Trauma: inherited unresolved communal trauma
into future generations, the implications for historical and present
relations between communities, particularly war and violence, and the
development of new methods for healing communal trauma. Elements include
establishing a global conference series on the topic, a journal, and
a global network of researchers and practitioners to advance research,
education, public awareness and understanding, and the development of
effective culturally appropriate healing methods.
"Engaging The Other": The Power of Unlikely
Partners
An edited book on The Other, in conjunction with our new international
conference on "Engaging The Other." The book will include
contributions by authors representing a diversity of cultures &
societies around the world to address this fundamentally subjective
phenomenon of The Other with a multicultural eye, and explore the unique
possibilities when the energy of animosity and opposition is transformed
into the power of healing and collaboration. (The book is based on a
contributed chapter by CBI's director on this topic, titled "Psychological
Concepts of The Other," for a book published by Preager/Greenwood
publishers: "The Psychology of Terrorism").
"Engaging The Other" training program,
in conjunction with the conference on Engaging The Other. The
training program will be intended to promote increased public awareness
and sensitivity to the dynamics of negative stereotyping, prejudice,
and fear based belief systems, and geared to the lay public (schools,
community centers, universities, etc.). Through utilizing a diverse,
multicultural pool of collaborators and consultants, the goal is to
create a program that is adapatable and that can be tailored to be culturally
sensitive and appropriate. In addition to being generally applicable
in many settings, ideally it would be conducted in and near regions
of conflict. Among individuals targeted to become trainers in communities
will be human service professionals, including psychologists, social
workers, educators, community leaders and activists, with the intent
to develop sensitivity training and awareness raising programs/curriculum
for schools and universities, community organizations, church congregations,
government workers, political groups, etc.
Public education: Concepts can also be introduced to the general
public in various "pop psychology" formats through the media
to "generic" the process within the general population and
increase wider public awareness, sensitivity, and understanding.
Children's Trauma Treatment Center: A
project to create a children's trauma treatment center in Nablus, West
Bank, including providing training and consultation to treatment staff,
treatment programs and methodology, clinical and professional resources,
organizational infrastructure, and initial seed funding to operate for
the 1st year. At this stage, the above elements have been prepared,
including a physical site at a local pediatric center in Nablus that
has been pledged as the 1st site of this trauma center, and we are seeking
operating funds for the direct services. Currently there is no such
trauma treatment service available, particularly for children, in the
Nablus region.
Iraqi Trauma Treatment Training: A project
to provide training, professional resources, and the organizational
infrastructure to a team of Iraqi counselors to staff a trauma treatment
center in Karbala, Iraq.
Joint Palestinian/Israeli Trauma Treatment Training:
An innovative joint Palestinian/Israeli trauma treatment training
for therapists from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel. This project is
intended to provide opportunities to learn and share trauma treatment
skills, and the unique possibility for therapists from both sides of
the conflict to work directly in assisting each other in gaining skills
to heal their respective communities.
Joint Palestinian / Israeli Peace Studies Center Network
A project being explored between the universities involved in our Capacity
For Peace and Democracy project and universities in Israel. The
hope is to work toward including additional local academic institutions
to promote more direct dialogue, interaction, and eventually cooperation,
including the possibility of co-sponsoring one of our "Engaging
The OTHER" conferences as a regional conference.
A Cooperative Publishing vehicle (including
E-Publishing) for voices of hope and reason - individuals from around
the world with important, cutting edge ideas to stimulate and contribute
to the public dialogue. To support our overall goal of nurturing individual
capacity for peace, this service is intended to help promote the insights
and wisdom of visionaries for peace and healing on an international,
cross-cultural level, and to offer practical hope through raising public
awareness of the wealth of viable efforts and visions of the possible
that are at work in the world. In the current state of publishing, many
good ideas never see the light of day because of the commercial or ideological
criteria of many publishers, as well as the financial capacity of many
throughout the world doing truly soulful and inspiring work that is
all part of the emerging consciousness of peace that is literally occurring
around us each day. Too often this crucial work takes place under the
radar of the general public, and even clouded from public consciousness
by an alternative world-view that dysfunctionally perpetuates a diminishing
value of human potential and an ethos of self-destruction, despair,
and impotence.
Instilling genuine and realistic hope in the general public based on
simply knowing the facts is seen as an essential part of achieving a
consciousness of peace and healing, and in empowering each individual
with the capacity to add their necessary energy and support, locally
and globally, to the making the vision a reality.
Professional Schools and Practical Training Programs
In Human Services: 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
post-communist and developing countries.
Expanding our Website as an interactive vehicle
for virtual community, collaboration, education, follow-up to training,
and exploratory dialogue. Our redesigned website is currently in the
process of being developed toward these ends. Among the features that
will be available in the very near future:
- Journal of Conflict Transformation, a virtual journal of
collected papers from our conferences and trainings
- "Connections," a CBI E-newsletter that - in addition
to reporting on the activities of CBI, our network, and alumni - provides
a virtual forum to share learning and offer contributed opinion articles
and editorials on important issues and current conditions in the world.
- A Virtual Resource Library, of programs & curriculums
from our annual conferences and training projects, as well as reference
and training materials from many sources, including publications (books,
journals, articles, etc.), videos, audio, graphics and photos, etc.
This will be continually added to both through loading materials on
our web site and providing easily targeted links to specific materials
on other sites by developing a reciprocal and cohesive information
net with various collaborating organizations and universities internationally.
This information will be made available to all to help instill the
most people with the most knowledge, information, and skills to help
increase capacity for peace in their local communities.
- Themed E-Dialogue Groups and E-Working Groups to maintain
contact between participants and provide supplemental training, networking,
support, and follow-through between events, and promote collaboration
on practical efforts..
- Clinical Consultation to augment training projects, intended
to provide easy access between trainers and trainees, as well as between
trainees, for clinical consultation, additional professional learning,
and support.
- Establishing an ongoing Chronicle of projects, collaborations,
and new organizations that have come out of CBI's conferences over
the last 14 years.
- An expanded Photo Album to share photos from our events and
projects (eventually with audio-video capability)
- E-Publishing (see above Publishing Vehicle)
- Future planned enhancements:
- distance learning capability
- streaming video and audio for access to material from our events
- Audio-Video E-conferencing
- Virtual Global Youth Community - a virtual community for
cross-cultural interaction made up of participants of our international
youth conferences, intended for and operated by the youth themselves.
Youth participants will have opportunities to follow up on their conference
participation by continuing to collaborate on joint projects having
to do with ecological/environmental and conflict transformation issues
in their respective physical communities. The virtual community will
also be linked to the youth sections of cooperating organizations,
including the Jane Goodall Institute.
The virtual neighborhood enlists youth participants themselves in
co-creating ways it can be further developed. This includes collaborating
on uses, content, features, and character of the forum to reflect
their unique purposes and potential, and to provide a vehicle for
1) shared learning and wisdom, 2) collaboration on joint projects,
and 3) maintaining their evolving intentional community. Initially
this section will include:
- a youth community Newsletter to share personal thoughts
and opinion, news of activities, opportunities for involvement
and cooperation, stories, poetry, art, etc.
- global Dialogue Groups to provide ongoing, threaded
dialogue between all youth participants and their organizations.
The dialogue groups will have the capability of including a general
conversation section and separate sections divided by topic for
more focused dialogues - particularly intended to help promote
cooperative efforts and projects, and to maintain direct personal
contact.
- a web-based Photo Album to share pictures from shared
events, each others communities, projects, etc. (eventually with
audio-video capability), and
- a Youth Peace Resolution page where the resolution created
at the 2004 Ecology of War and Peace youth conference in St. Petersburg,
Russia can be shared, responded to, and built on.
There has already been the wish expressed to extend this service
and create a wider Internet community that would include more individuals,
youth organizations, schools, etc. from each participant' home community.
If you are interested in contributing
your time,
energy, and talents to assisting
our international efforts,
Join Us To:
- create new possibilities for conflict transformation, prevention
and healing in this pivotal time,
- form unique relationships with individuals and organizations throughout
the world, and
- gain invaluable professional and personal experiences along the
way.
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On Becoming Involved
with Common Bond Institute
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