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First Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Rehumanizing the Other |
First Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Rehumanizing the Other Second Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Transcending Conflict Third Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Dialogic Engagement Fourth Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Envisioning Futures Fifth Annual Conflict Transformation Workshop: Collaborative Explorations Sixth Annual WISCOMP Conflict Transformation Workshop: Coexistence and Trust-building: Transforming Relationships Symposium: Conflict Resolution: Trends and Prospects Public Forum: Track II, Citizen’s Diplomacy: Innovative Possibilities for Peace |
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WISCOMP
organized a Conflict Transformation Workshop for university students from
Pakistan and India, from June 4th to 12th, 2001, in New
Delhi. Titled Rehumanizing The Other, the interaction facilitated the
process of building bridges of trust, understanding and friendship between the
next generation of citizens and potential leaders of the two countries. It was
organized in the belief that the transformation of the dominating conflict in
South Asia lies, to a great extent, in the hands of third generation Indians and
Pakistanis, and that people-to-people contacts must also include a dimension of
substantive intellectual engagement with issues of peace and conflict. The
group comprised 40 university students in the age group of 20 to 27 years. The
students from Pakistan represented institutions like the Indus Valley School of
Art and Architecture (Karachi), Lahore University of Management Sciences Looking
back at those eight days in June, one would have to begin by highlighting the
relationships that the participants from Pakistan and India built –
relationships that we at WISCOMP believe will be long lasting. We say this
because the students grounded these relationships on a recognition that they
were different and yet were willing
to search for common ground. An
important benchmark that we set for ourselves before the interaction was the
extent to which stereotypes and prejudices would be addressed and transformed.
Towards the end of workshop, changes in mindsets and stereotypical attitudes
about the other were noticeable. In
fact, several participants were, in a sense, able to shed a lot of the baggage
they had carried with themselves about the
other. The
third important
SHREYA JANI, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi
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(Lahore), Kinnaird College (Lahore) and the University of Peshawar (Peshawar).
Participants from India were enrolled at the University of Delhi, Jamia Milia
Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru University. The sessions were conducted by conflict
resolution trainers and facilitators from different regions including the United
States, United Kingdom, Pakistan and India.
achievement lay in an emotion that many participants articulated
on the last day of their face-to-face interaction: “It will be difficult for
us to demonize the other because
he/she now has a face”. The
realization that the other was
willing to listen and understand a different perspective was an important
learning.