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IX. Capacity Building Workshops and Conference in Health and Human Rights |
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9th Capacity Building Workshops and Conference in Health and Human Rights is taking place in central Tbilisi close to all the city has to offer. Our venue is the recently opened Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel Tbilisi located just a few steps from Tbilisi's main places of interest with easy access to the shopping areas. "Rustaveli" Station of Tbilisi's well connected metro network is also just opposite Radisson Blu Iveria.
Title Health and Human Rights: Doing Justice, Building Capacity The conference will focus on ways mental health professionals can contribute to doing justice to victims of gross human rights violations, i.e. survivors of torture and organized violence, refugees, IDP's, and victims of human trafficking. Forms of 'doing justice' may vary from providing mental, psychosocial and community health care to writing medico-legal reports and/or contributing to truth, justice and reconciliation processes; from contributing to the developments of policies, to the design of research and/or the development of evidence-based interventions.
6-7 October 2011 ISHHR Capacity Building Workshops 8-9 October 2011 ISHHR 9th Conference Program Pre-conference Workshops 6-7 October 2011 Two days have been set aside for capacity-building and training workshops, focusing on the acquisition of new methodologies and techniques in healing from throughout the world. Keynote & Paper Presentations 8-9 October 2011 The two day scientific program for the conference will be dedicated to the presentation of keynote and submitted papers, alongside topics supporting the priorities identified for the training and capacity-building workshops that will be held prior to the conference. Confirmed keynote presenter: Emeritus Prof. Vamik Volkan Dr. Vam?k Djemal Volkan was born to Turkish parents in Cyprus. He received his medical degree from Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. He immigrated to the United States in 1957, where he did his internship, psychiatric residency, and psychoanalytic training. He became a faculty member at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia in 1963 and, upon his retirement, became an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry in 2002. While a faculty member, he served as the Medical Director of the University of Virginia's Blue Ridge Hospital for eighteen years. Blue Ridge Hospital, an inpatient facility for psychiatric disorders, physical rehabilitation, geriatrics, epilepsy, and drug and substance abuse, was an integral part of the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center from 1978 to 1995. Dr. Volkan played a key role in its development. In 1987 Dr. Volkan created a center under the umbrella of the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia: "The Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI)." This center was the first of its kind. The faculty consisted of psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, as well as former diplomats, political scientists, historians, and others. Dr. Volkan's aim was to expand the concept of "preventive medicine" to include an examination of societal responses to massive aggression due to wars or war-like situations and to develop methods to "vaccinate" large-groups against violent acts. CSMHI had grants for projects in Soviet Union, Baltic Republics, Albania, Kuwait, former Yugoslavia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Turkey, Greece, the USA and other locations. Dr. Volkan directed CSMHI from 1987 until his retirement in 2002. Dr. Volkan was also a founder of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). ISPP draws its membership from many disciplines: psychology, political science, sociology, psychiatry, history, and anthropology. It transcends academic and professional boundaries by serving as a meeting ground for scholars in academia and persons working in government and public post. ISPP's Constitution was written during his tenure as President. Starting in 1989, Dr. Volkan also served as a member of the Carter Center's International Negotiation Network (INN) under the direction of former USA President Jimmy Carter. 1987, President Jimmy Carter founded INN a flexible, informed network of eminent persons, conflict resolution practitioners, Nobel Peace laureates and former heads of state, dedicated to resolving international conflicts through peaceful means. Confirmed workshops: Community Consultations using Storyboarding by E. Pittaway This research method uses an introduction to Human Rights and Gender issues to provide a context to guide refugee participants through an examination and articulation of issues of critical concern to their communities. The facilitators work with participants to explore potential solutions and strategies for action. The techniques used include community education, the giving of testimony, and "storyboarding", during which participants use a series of drawings to conduct situational analyses. It is based on the belief that all people have capabilities and capacity to identify community problems and to propose workable solutions if the resources are available to support them. It has been used extensively with communities which have survived high levels of torture and human rights violations. It has been particularly successful in communities in which women have been targeted for systematised rape, sexual and gender based violence, and in addressing issues of shame and the violation of personal, family and community honour. It was developed by the Centre for Refugee Research, UNSW, for use with refugees in camps, urban settings and in Australia. It can be used with people of all levels of education, including with people who are pre-literate. In this workshop, which will be run as a "Training of Trainers", participants will take part in the full process, and spend time analysing, exploring and practicing the skills needed to use the technique. Istanbul Protocol and Asylum determination procedures in Europe, facilitators TBA This interactive workshop aims to give an insight to the audience about the proposal of the European Commission about the new guidelines regarding the asylum determination procedure in EU member States. The European guidelines and the proposal for new guidelines which include the medical-legal reports will be discussed along with the possibility of using medical-legal reports in asylum determination procedures with case studies from the Netherlands and UK. Case studies and experiences will be transferred to other colleagues from ISHHR with this interactive workshop. Other confirmed workshops are; Building response capacity to disasters and major traumatization by Dean Ajdukovic International consensus on minimal norms in Psychosocial Accompaniment to Exhumations by Pau Perez Impact of refugee resettlement on physical and mental health of individuals, families and communities from a community development perspective Human trafficking: women and minors in danger Bio-feedback by STARTTS If you have any workshop requests especially for skill acquisition, please contact our Project Officer Janset Berzeg at ISHHR Secretariat on projectofficer@ishhr.com with your workshop topic and presenter suggestions. ISHHR will issue certificates for participants successfully completing a workshop. Registration Registrations will be open from October 2010 on ISHHR website at www.ishhr.com Scientific Committee & Abstracts |
