2 - 6 December 2009 at the University of Cape Town

Conference Countdown:

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Time Venue Description
9:00-9:45 AM

LT1

PLENARY ADDRESS

Reconciliation Between Groups and Altruism Born of Suffering

Ervin Staub

 

Chair: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

09:45 - 10:00 AM

LT1

Ervin Staub Dialogue with Audience

10:00 - 10:30 AM PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2A

The Shame of Bystanders
Antje du Bois-Pedain

 

Chair: Johannes Pfäfflin

B

2B

Children of the Revolution
Bill Rolston

 

Chair: Graham Dawson

C

LT3

Dislocation and Relocation: A Story of a Cape Town Community
Mary Bock

 

Chair: Susan Spearey

10:30 - 10:45

 

TEA / COFFEE
10:45 - 11:15 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2A

Results of an Interpretive-phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Persons with Refugee Background of the May 2008 Xenophobic Violence in South Africa
Katharine Knoetze, Lyn Vromans, Robert Schweitzer & Ashraf Kagee

 

Chair: Chris Chivers

B

2B

Framing Testimonial Narratives: Constructing a Trade-off between Justice and Reconciliation
Christine Anthonissen

 

Chair: Wendy Lambourne

C

LT3

Effects of Transgenerational Processes in Families of Perpetrators' Offspring in the Aftermath of the Holocaust and National Socialism

Erda Siebert, Peter Pogany-Wnendt, Beata Hammerich, Bernd Sonntag, Elke Horn (PAKH-Group)

 

Chair: Cora Dekker

11:15 - 12:30 PM PANEL SESSIONS * see link to extended info below.
Session # Session Title:
I

LT3

Analysis of Transgenerational Transmission of Holocaust Survivor Experience and a Process of Dialogue between a Holocaust Survivor and his Descendants through Three Generations

Johannes Pfäfflin, David Reusmann, Evelina Rije, Marina Sokolova (PAKH-Group)

 

Chair: Vibeke Vindeløv

II

2B

Inter-group Dialogue in Post-conflict Societies:
Anjum Anwar & Chris Chivers; Théophile Sewimfura & Annemiek Richters

 

Chair: Jessica Benjamin

III

2A

Perspectives on Conflict, Reconciliation and Prosecutions:
Markus Rudolf; Meredith Wheeler; Hendrik Lubbe

 

Chair: Susan Glisson

IV Outside
LT1

Interactive Poster Presentation:


Reconciliation Sentiment and Mental Health Among Victims and Perpetrators of the Genocide in Rwanda

Immaculeé Mukashema & Etienne Mullet

Panelists’ Titles

 

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12:30 - 1:45 PM

 

LUNCH
1:45 - 2:15 PM

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session # Session Title:
A

2A

‘...for that skin was an infant’s once’: Screening xenophobic violence and corporeal responsibility in post-TRC South Africa
Helene Strauss

 

Chair: Brandon Hamber

B

2B

Reconciliation, History and Memory in the Tismăneanu Report Condemning Communism in Romania
Cristian Tileaga

 

Chair: Meredith Wheeler

C
LT3

The Effect of War-related PTSD and Depression on Attitudes towards Trust and Coexistence in Rwandan Women and Men 12 Years after the Genocide

Karen Brounéus

 

Chair: Erda Siebert

2:15 - 2:45 PM

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session #

 

Session Title:
A

2B

Can we Talk About ‘Beyond Reconciliation’ in South Africa?
Astrid Berg

 

Chair: Mary Bock

B

LT3

Refugees and their Children: The Impact of Traumatisation and Migration on the Relationship between Parents and Children: A Psychoanalytic Case Study
Marianne Rauwald

 

Chair: Gael Beckett

C

2A

The Desire for Justice, Psychic Reparation, and the Politics of Memory in ‘Post-conflict’ Northern Ireland
Graham Dawson

 

Chair: Clare Magill

2:45 - 3:00 PM

 

TEA / COFFEE
3:00 - 3:30 PM

 

PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session #

 

Session Title:
A

2A

‘It was an intimate township’: Reflections on a group process in the Working With Groups workshop at Ububele
Gael Beckett

 

Chair: Derek Hook

B

2B

Justice for Victims after the TRC: Silencing the Voices of Survivors?
Hugo van der Merwe & Rebecca Murdoch

 

Chair: Norman Duncan

C

LT3

The 1999 Reconciliation Between Nuers and Dinkas in Southern Sudan: Exemplifying a Girardian Inspired Framework for Reconciliation

Vern Neufeld Redekop

 

Chair: Cristian Tileaga

3:30 - 5:15 PM

 

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
A 2A

ROOTS OF RECONCILIATION: HUMANISING ENEMIES

 

Discussants: Ginn Fourie (South Africa); Alistair Little (Northern Ireland); Wilhelm Verwoerd (South Africa & Northern Ireland)

 

Moderator: Bette Dickerson

B 2B

FORGING BONDS UNDER FIRE: WORKING WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ASYMMETRY IN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN DIALOGUES

 

Discussants: Jessica Benjamin; Adin Thayer; Judith Thompson (Members of the Acknowledgement Project, USA)

 

Moderator: Paula Green (Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, Vermont)

C LT3

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR RECONCILIATION AND COEXISTENCE

 

Discussants: Ervin Staub (University of Massachusetts, USA), Sue Williams (Eastern Mennonite University, USA), Chris Spies (South Africa), Vibeke Vindeløv (University of Copenhagen, The Netherlands), Karen Brounéus (University of Otago, New Zealand)

 

Moderator: Ragnor Angeby (Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden)

7:30 PM CONFERENCE DINNER

 

 



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