Second CT Workshop: Transcending Conflict
Forty-five young researchers, practitioners and students from Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Tibet and India came together in New Delhi
to participate in the Second WISCOMP Conflict Transformation Workshop
titled Transcending Conflict organized from June 2nd to 9th 2003.
Designed
to maximize knowledge sharing, reflection and skill building, the workshop
sessions were informed by six broad themes. These were identified in
the context of issues that play a critical role in the addressing of
conflict and its transformation in a South Asian setting: Conflict Analysis;
Nonviolence and Conflict Transformation; Religion, Violence and Peace;
Multi-Track Peacebuilding; Human Rights, Humanitarian Assistance and
Conflict Transformation; and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Experiments
with Restorative Justice.
The
workshop facilitated substantive engagement on the models for conflict
analysis and peacebuilding and also focused on the building of skills
for dialogue, mediation, facilitation and negotiation. The proceedings
were informed by a process that encouraged experiential learning and
addressed the conceptual and analytical frameworks for analysis and
intervention.
A
highlight of the workshop was meeting with H. E. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam,
President of India. Participants enjoyed this opportunity to interact
with the President and listen to his enlightening perspectives on Conflict
Transformation.
