Day-by-Day Plan

DAILY SCHEDULE

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2002

Participants Arrive

10:00 - 1:00 Youth Forum
1:00 p.m. Lunch for Speakers
3:00 - 5:00 Youth Forum continues
3:00 - 8:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 - 8:45 Dinner, Hotel Croatia dining hall
8:45 Opening Program, Ragusa Conference Hall

Music
Invocation Angeles Arrien

Berta Dragicevic, Former Deputy Mayor of Dubrovnik and General Secretary of the Inter-University Centar, Dubrovnik - Historical sketch of Dubrovnik's Legacy of Peace

Georgia Kelly, Director - Logistics, Conference Overview and Purpose

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002

8:00 - 8:45 Yoga, Bobara Room
8:45 - 9:15 Meditation, Bobara Room
10:00 -1:00 Angeles Arrien - Essential Peace Practices, A Day-long Workshop,

Ragusa Hall

Part One

1. Preparatory Skills and Practices (Meditation, Intention, and Self-Check);
2. Tools and Communication Skills (Causes of Misunderstandings, Truth-telling, and the Practice of Four International Conflict Resolution and Negotiation Skills);
3. Listening Rather than Positioning (How to host different perspectives without moving to premature solutions, Curiosity rather than Judgment, Inclusion and Acknowledgement Skills, Agreements and Promises, Tracking;
4. Six Universal Steps to Creative Problem-Solving: Creating Breakthroughs and Solutions for Mutual Gain.

11:30 - 11:50 Break
12:00 - 1:00 Workshop continues
1:00 - 3:30 Lunch Break
3:30 - 5:30 "Essential Peace Practices" Workshop, Part Two
5:30 Free Time
7:00 - 8:30 Dinner
8:30 p.m. Sandra Simich - Piano Concert in Ragusa Hall (Program includes Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn)

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2002

7:30 - 8:15 Yoga, Bobara Room
8:15 - 8:45 Meditation, Bobara Room
9:00 - 10:30 Lessons From War; Lessons from Peacebuilding - Part I Presented by Youth Forum members - including Filip Pavlovic (Serbia), Kujtesa Bejtullahu (Kosovo), Erion Veliaj (Albania), Nadja Hailegebovic (Bosnia), Aqeela Sherrills (Watts, Los Angeles), Jejuana Johnson (Watts, Los Angeles).

What can the peacebuilders living in the Balkans teach us from their experience? What can peace leaders from U.S. inner cities and the Middle East teach us? How do their stories lead to Inquiry? What have been their successful methods of rebuilding peace and reconciliation? The speakers on this day have experienced war and are now involved in the healing process. They are committed to peacebuilding and are actively engaged creating better communities and a better world.
Moderator: Levana Saxon

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Lessons From War: Lessons from Peacebuilding - Part II
2:30 - 3:00 Lunch
3:00 - 4:00 Riane Eisler - Partnership and Dominator Models in Systemic Terms

What are the bases for war and terrorism? What are the basic components of a culture of peace? Based on multidisciplinary research over two decades, Dr. Riane Eisler will talk about the cornerstones for a more equitable, peaceful, and sustainable world. This session will take us beyond conventional categories such as right vs. left and religious vs. secular to the partnership and domination models as two underlying possibilities for organizing relations -- from intimate to international.

4:00 - 5:30 Small Group Cafe Discussions
7:00 - 8:30 Dinner
8:30 Sam Keen - The Enemy Face to Face:
Visual and Mythic Literacy In the crisis following the events of September 11, it is imperative that we understand the nature of the conflicts we will experience in the coming years --- and not merely react to "the enemy" in ways based on the misinformation implicit in our propaganda, stereotypes, images and prejudices.

What images and metaphors do we use to characterize the new enemy? What images and metaphors do our enemy use to characterize us? How do we deal with our feelings, of confusion, anxiety, grief and think creatively about how we as citizens should ask our government to act now and in future conflicts?

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2002

7:45 - 8:15 Meditation, Bobara Room

9:00 - 11:00 Will Keepin and Molly Dwyer
The Alchemy of Gender Reconciliation Transforming gender relations between feminine and masculine dimensions of human society is fundamental to creating lasting peace. This session introduces SatyanaÕs Gender Reconciliation work, developed by Will Keepin and Molly Dwyer to foster new dimensions of healing and social justice between the sexes. This session includes a unique, experiential forum that assists women and men in working together toward healing gender disharmony and cultivating new dimensions of authentic intimacy. The session will include an evocative witnessing process that Keepin and Dwyer have applied extensively with many women and men from diverse cultural backgrounds. Lasting harmony between men and women cannot be achieved through social, psychological, or political reform alone. This session articulates the vision that restoring balance between the masculine and feminine is not merely a noble social goal, but an evolutionary imperative that is vital to the survival of the human species.

11:30 - 12:00 Take Buses to Old Walled City of Dubrovnik
12:00 - 2:30 Free Time and Lunch
1:15 One-Hour City Walking Tour
2:30 - 4:00 Riane Eisler and David Loye - Gender and Cultural Transformation The Atrium of the Rector's Palace
What does gender have to do with cultural transformation? Does understanding different ways of organizing gender roles and relations have anything to do with countering war and terrorism and moving toward a world of equity and peace? We are not used to thinking this way. This session will examine these relationships, focusing on something that is still generally ignored, but once articulated may seem obvious: How a culture structures the roles and relations between the male and female halves of humanity is a basic model for all relations, from intimate to international, and profoundly affects whether values stereotypically associated with masculinity such as control and violence or with femininity such as caring and nonviolence, are given social and fiscal priority.

4:00 - 5:30 Cafe Discussions
5:30 DESA - visit to a local womenÕs non-government organization
6:00 Dinner, Free Time
9:00 p.m. Concert, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra Ð The Atrium of the Rector's Palace - Music composed and conducted by Delo Jusic
11:00 p.m., 11:30, and 12:00 - Buses leave for our hotel in Cavtat

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2002

FREE DAY - Several Excursions will be available for conference participants. Atlas Travel will have a table at our conference every day. Please sign up for excursions early as they will fill up. You may also choose to visit Dubrovnik again or stay in Cavtat and relax.

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2002

7:30 - 8:30 Walking Meditation around Cavtat Bay, Meet in Lobby at 7:25 a.m.
8:00 - 8:30 Meditation, Bobara Room
8:00 - 8:45 Walking Meditation around Cavtat Bay, Meet in Lobby at 8:10 a.m.
TBA There is also the option of attending Mass at a church in the town of Cavtat.
9:00 - 10:00 Paul Ray - The New Political Compass: Good News for Peace Movements
Political culture across the Western World is moving into a post-materialist phase that reflects the influence of all the new social and consciousness movements over the last 40 years. All the movements' constituencies overlap a lot, have a single new worldview, and have brought forth the Cultural Creatives subculture. They are leading a shift beyond left vs. right to a 4-directional politics that resembles a political compass. Evidence shows this emerging political culture is the single largest sector on the compass in the U.S., and may be in Europe as well. As this political sector gets mobilized, using "people power," it will drastically improve the prospects of the peace movement.

10:00 - 10:30 Larry Robinson - Politics as Spiritual Practice
We are on the threshold of ecological disaster. The WestÕs grand experiment in democracy seems to be on the verge of failure. Simultaneously, an unprecedented proportion of our population is engaged in spiritual practice. Yet many religious traditions have encouraged detachment from the world. Psychology has compounded the problem by viewing soul as a subset of the psyche, rather than as an inherent property of the world. All of this has served to banish soul from the world. If the anima mundi, is to be restored, it will be through the mature outward expression of deep spiritual work. Can we re-imagine political engagement, not as an "unspiritual" activity, but, in itself, as a spiritual practice?

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Vesna Pusic, member of Croatia's Parliament
11:30 - 12:00 Zarko Puhovski, President of Croatian-Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (Q & A for both speakers)
12:15 - 3:00 Lunch Break
3:00 - 3:45 Chris Bache - What if we Fail? Exploring the Deep Structure of War and Hate
People live approximately 80 years and yet our collective hates and prejudices seem to live for hundreds, even thousands of years. How do we explain this? Usually we lay the blame at the feet of our cultural institutions - church, government, customs, language -- but what if there is a simpler and more personal explanation? This presentation will draw from depth psychology and the world's spiritual traditions to explore the deep structure of hate and violence and where we might look to achieve a true and lasting solution. Session includes
Q & A.

4:00 - 5:30 Cafe Discussions
5:30 - Dinner Free Time
7:00 - 8:30 Dinner (6:30 - 7:15 meeting; Dinner with D.K. - 7:15 - 8:30)
8:45 p.m. Special Keynote Address: U.S. Congressman, Dennis Kucinich

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2002

7:30 - 8:15 Yoga, Bobara Room
8:00 - 8:30 Meditation, Bobara Room
9:00 - 10:00 - Ragusa Hall Bernard Lietaer - Money: Its Role in War and Peace
Contrary to a key hypothesis in economic theory, money is not neutral. Our conventional money, by the way it is created, activates specific emotional archetypes, and specifically the Warrior archetype. It isn't accidental that the vast majority of crimes and acts of violence have money as the major motivation. This talk will explain how and why our conventional money plays this role, and what realistic and concrete options are available to counteract this process.

10:00 - 10:30 Patrice Flynn - Global Capitalism: 21st Century Style Dr. Flynn, an economist, professor and CEO of a basic and applied research firm, will navigate the terrain of the current global economy. She will describe the new Òrules of the gameÓ and expectations, according to the economic way of thinking of political leaders, bankers and transnational corporations. She will explain recent events that demonstrate the power and scale of global capitalism: the currency crises in Mexico (1994), Thailand (1997), Russia (1998), and Argentina (2002), and the colossal collapse of Enron while the worldÕs attention was on Afghanistan. Dr. Flynn will explore a new global financial architecture that includes the protection of workers, human rights, and environmental quality.

10:30 - 11:30 Break & Cafe Discussions on the Economics of Peace -- What does the Economics of Peace mean? What would such a system look like? What are the assumptions and beliefs keeping the old systems in place? How would we redistribute tax money to support peace?

11:30 - 1200 Comments, questions, ideas from cafe discussion - Ragusa Hall
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Sherry Anderson - The Courage Not to be Silenced We speak so often about the trivial things of our lives, yet are silent about what matters most. To change that --- to express the truth we want to live --- we need to find the courage to speak from our hearts. We will consider a true story of a woman who lacked the courage to speak a dream of peace in the Middle East. That experience burned into her a conviction so strong that now she is a woman who cannot be silenced. We will consider what this means for us personally, as we search for the inner and outer support to become people who speak from their heart and cannot be silenced.
2:45 - 3:15 Will Keepin Ð The Principles of Spiritual Activism
3:15 - 3:45 Hafsat Abiola
3:30 - 4:30 Evaluation Cafe Meetings
4:30 - 5:30 Open Workshops and Presentations for Organizations (Locations announced in newsletter and at morning plenary)
5:30 - 8:00 Free Time
8:00 p.m. Closing Banquet Ð Ragusa Hall

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002

Day-Long Youth Forum

Evaluation Committee meets