Institute for Resource and Security Studies       

 

 


Preliminary program of the conference

 

»PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE IN COMMUNITIES, SCHOOLS

AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS «

 

2-6 June 2004,

Hotel Kompas, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia

 

Conference Program

 

Thursday, 3 June 2004

08.00-15.00

Conference Registration

15.00-15.30

 Opening Ceremony and cultural program

15.30-16.15

Opening Addresses:

  • Viktorija Potoc¹nik (Foundation “Together”, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Representative from the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Slovenia
  • Representative from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

16.15-17.00

Plenary Lecture:

Paula Gutlove:   Presentation of the Medical Network for Social Reconstruction in Former Yugoslavia (Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Boston, USA)

 

17.00-17.30

Break

17.30-19.00

Introductory lectures:

Jean Pier Titz:  Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society   (Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France)

 

Discussion

19.00

Dinner

 

 

 

Friday , 4 June 2004

 

09.00-10.00

Plenary lecture: Darja Zavirs

Darja Zavirs¹ek:Violence in institutions (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

10.00-11.00

Plenary lecture:

Jean Claude Metraux:  When our interventions turn into a nest of violence (University of Lausane, Lausane, Switzerland)

11.00-11.30

Break

11.30-12:30

Plenary lecture:

Paul Hinchlif  (HAI - Help Age International, London, UK)
12:30-13:30

Plenary lecture:

Bojan Dekleva:  Violence in Schools (Faculty of Education in Ljubljana, Slovenia)

13.30-14.30

Lunch

14.30-16.30

Workshops (simultaneous sessions)

 

I.   Prevention of Violence in Schools

Moderator: Marina Ajdukovic (Society for Psychological Assistance,   Zagreb, Croatia)

  • Seka Markov (Center SRCE, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro)
  • Mojca Pus¹nik (Institute for education of the Republic of Slovenia)
  • Engeluse Limani (Association for Psychosocial Assistance and Centre for Education, Tetovo, Macedonia)
  • Maja Uzelac  (NGO Small Step,   Zagreb, Croatia)

II.   Violence in institutions

Moderator: Darja Zavirs¹ek (Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

 

  • UNHCR - Slovenia
  • Workshop run by the group from OMEGA, Graz, Austria: Violence in refugee centers
  • Presentation by the participants from Chechnya
  • Tanja Franc¹is¹kovic´:  Violence at work (Center for Psychotrauma, Rijeka, Croatia)

IV.   Violence in Community

Moderator: ??

 

  • Liana Kal_ina:  Child Rights and Violence (Information and Documentation Centre of the Council of Europe in Ljubljana)
  • Lisa Aronson:  The psychological, family, political and cultural forces which promote the development of the extremist and recruitable adolescent in failed states (The Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at University of Virginia Medical School, USA)
  • Angelca _iberna:  Violence against older people  (Association of the Retired, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

 

IV.   Evaluation of the field work

Moderator:   Paula Gutlove (Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Boston, USA)

16.30-17.00

Break 

17.00-18.00

Plenary Lecture:

Zoran Pavlovic¹: Protection from violence - children's rights (Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

18.00-19.00

Presentation by Iraqi participants

19.00

Dinner and social evening with music

 

Saturday, 5 June 2004

 

09.00-10.30

Panel discussion:
10.30-11.00 Break

11.00-13.00

Workshops (simultaneous sessions)

 

I.   Prevention of Violence in Schools

Moderator:  Tanja Radoc¹aj: (UNICEF, Croatia)

  • Tanja Radoc¹aj  (UNICEF, Croatia)
  • Slobodanka Gas¹ic´ (Association DUGA, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)
  • Vera Slodnjak (Counseling Centre for Children, Adolescents and Parents in Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  • Janjus¹evic´ Petar (Counseling Centre for Children, Adolescents and Parents in Ljubljana, Slovenia)

II. Proposal writing and fundraising

  • Paula Gutlove (Institute for Resource and Security Studies, Boston USA)
  • Vahida Huzejrovic´ (Foundation »Together«, Slovenia)

III.  Workshop (not yet defined)

 

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00

Excursion

19.00

Dinner

 

 

Sunday, 6 June 2004

 

09.00-10.00

Plenary lecture:

10.00-11.00

Panel Discussion:  

The Medical Network looks to the future

Moderators: Anne Marie Wagner, Paula Gutlove, Anica Mikus¹ Kos (OMEGA, Graz, Austria;  IRSS, Boston, USA; Foundation »Together«, Slovenia)

11.00-12.00

Conference conclusions