DAY ONE

date:03 July

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Registration, opening ceremony

Break

Time: 10.30-11.00

Morning Session

11.00-12.30

topic(s): Intergroup conflict: nature, content, causes.

instructor(s) Liudmila Azarova

format: Lecture

Objective: The issues of the conflict. Intergroup conflicts and their manifestations in the modern world. What are the conflicts relate to intergroup? What are the mechanisms of their origin? Typology and dynamics of intergroup conflicts. Functions of intergroup conflict. Tools, forms, and basic paradigms of resolving intergroup conflicts.

Assignments

Lunch

12.30 -13.00

Afternoon Session

13.00 – 14. 30

Topic: The process of negotiations. Mediation and facilitation.

Format: Lecture

Objective: Negotiations as means to achieve mutual voluntary agreement. The basics of negotiation. The concept of mediation. The concept of facilitation. The main stages of formation and development of Institute of mediation: Russian and foreign experience.

Walking tour around Reggio

19.30-20.30

Social Dinner

20.30 -23.00

DAY TWO

date:04 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic: Conflictological competence.

Format: Рractice

Assignments: Read the article «Model Body Knot: a tool for personal development, communication and conflict resolution»

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

11.00-12.30

topic(s): Effective mediation

instructor(s) Liudmila Azarova

format: Lecture

Objective: The basic concepts of mediation: the mediator, mediation competence, principles of mediation, the position of the mediator. Comparative analysis: mediation and other methods of conflict resolution. Features of functioning of mediation in conflict resolution. Problems of application of mediation procedures in Russia.

assignments:

Lunch

12.30 -13.30

Afternoon Session

13. 30 – 15.00

Topic: The mediation procedure

Format: Lecture

Objective: The structure of mediation. The stage of mediation. The stages of mediation. The result of the mediation. 

DAY THREE

date:05 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic: The mediation tools

Format: Рractice

Assignments

Break

10.30-11.00

Morning Session

11.00-12.30

topic(s): The argumentative scheme in the discourse of mediation.

instructor(s) Liudmila Azarova

format: Lecture

Objective: Argumentative dialogue as a form of realization of the discourse of mediation. Scheme for the analysis of argumentative dialogue in the discourse of mediation. The counterargument in the social system of mediation.

assignments:

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: The concept of facilitation.

Format: Lecture

Objective: Studies of social facilitation. The goal of facilitation. Principles of facilitation. Stages of facilitation. Recommendations to the facilitator. The rules of facilitation. The regulations complete the process of facilitation.

DAY FOUR

date:6 July 2017

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): 'Women within Mobilization for War’

instructor(s) Nejra Nuna Čengić, PhD

format: lecture and discussion

Objective: The aim of the session is to present positioning of women (particularly women associations) towards nationalist mobilization for war. Using case of pre-war situation in former Yugoslavia during ‘90s and two antiwar women associations it will be shown how women openly opposed to war from different reasons: in this case, struggle against patriarchy (war and nationalism) at one side, and at the other side from maternity reasons - opposing their sons to go to war (in general, or even more to fight on the ‘wrong side’).

Assignments: Core text: YUVAL-DAVIS, NIRA. 2003. „Nationalist Projects and Gender Relations“. In Nar. umjet. 40/1, pp. 9-36

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: 'Women and Men within War: Roles, Positions, Actions’

Format: lecture, screening of a film inserts and discussion

Objective: The session presents step further in examining impact of nationalistic politics, this time among women and men within general population during wartime. Against dominant portraying of men as only warrior and women as food provider and keeper of the family, it will be shown how this division is more complex and how diverse social roles women and men have during the war and how do they impact their actions. Despite dominant perception of war as only rupture and discontinuity, it will be further shown how practices of antinationalism (mainly in the form of caring and helping) are happening dominantly within framework of continuities of human relationships, either through informal realms such as neighborhood, or through institutional framework through various forms of institutional loyalty.

Assignments: same core text as for the previous session

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Women in Peace Negotiations

Format: simulation of peace negotiation (the material will be submitted in advance for translation)

Objective: The aim of the session is to learn more about the conflict as such: demonstrating interests and needs of both sides; to get some sense of negotiations process and to provide framework for final discussion about women in negotiations process.

Assignments: Core reading:

Waylen, Georgina. “A Seat at the Table - is it Enough? Gender, Multi-Party Negotiations and Institutional Design in South Africa and Northern Ireland.“ Politics and Gender. Available at: http://www.academia.edu/17091052/A_Seat_at_the_Table_-_is_it_Enough_Gender_Multi-Party_Negotiations_and_Institutional_Design_in_South_Africa_and_Northern_Ireland

DAY FIVE

date:7 July 2017

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Whose Peace?

instructor(s) Nejra Nuna Čengić, PhD

format: lecture (including screening of inserts of film) and discussion

Objective: Since most of wars end with some international intervention, it will be shown how international community not only mediates into war ending, but conceptualizes peace with necessary infrastructure for it. Using case of BiH where presence of international community is particularly emphasized, it will be shown how international community functions in an ambivalent way: fostering processes of intergration at one hand and exclusion at the other hand.

assignments: Core text: Coles K. 2002. 'Ambivalent builders: Europeanization, the production of difference, and internationals in Bosnia-Herzegovina' Political and Legal Anthropology Review 25:1, 1-18.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Whose Justice?

Format: lecture (including screening of inserts of film) and discussion

Objective: The session presents step further in examining how peace building through human rights approach is built by state institutions with support of international community. Aim of the session is to demonstrate how institutional justice is masculinized, often militarized, subordinating women experience of war to that of men, or making women fully invisible. Using two cases of reparations: so called material (war related pensions) and symbolic (memorials) reparations, it will be shown how both are used to in former Yugoslavia to reinforce gender inequality, nationalist politics and identities, or differences in general. Finally, the session will outline how civil society initiatives address this issue.

Assignments

Bougarel, Xavier. Death and the Nationalist: Martyrdom, War Memory and Veteran Identity among Bosnian Muslims The new Bosnian mosaic : identities, memories and moral claims in a post-war society / edited by Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms, Ger Duijzings.

Moll, Nicolas. (2013). Fragmented memories in a fragmented country: memory competition and political identity-building in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 41:6, 910-935

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Encountering 'the Other'

Format: students’ presentation of cases(3 students present three articles (see bellow)), discussion and short lecture

Objective: The aim of the session is to show how meeting the ‘other’ usually is not happening through some new patterns of behavior producing potential new relationships (something emancipatory), but through continuities of rather patriarchal patterns of social life.

Assignments

Core texts/cases for discussion (participants read only one of the following three articles):

Helms E. 2010. 'The gender of coffee: women and reconciliation initiatives in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina' Focaal: 57, 17-32.

Jansen S. 2010. 'Of wolves and men: postwar reconciliation and the gender of inter-national encounters' Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 57, 33-49.

Hromadžić A. 2011. 'Bathroom mixing: youth negotiate democracy in postconflict Bosnia and Herzegovina' Political and Legal Anthropology Review 34:2, 268-289.

DAY SIX

DAY SEVEN

WEEKEND July, 08-09

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)

DAY EIGHT

date: 10 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Beyond War Consequences

instructor(s) Nejra Nuna Čengić, PhD

format:exercise, lecture (including screening of inserts of film) and discussion

Objective: Consequences of war never exist in vacuum, but intersect with many other processes of society reconstruction and global transformations. In other words, post-war reconstruction is often associated with other transformations, in case of former Yugoslav states, post socialist (socio-economic) transformations. This often produces difficult consequences for population. In this process, vulnerable groups – both new, but also old groups exposed to long-term discrimination that is usually invisible or ‘natural’ (structural violence) - are particularly affected. Finally, the session will demonstrate how initiatives for social justice can move ethno-nationalistic political agenda and unify people across ethnic boundaries

assignments: Core texts:

Jansen S. 2007. 'Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of "home" in Bosnia-Herzegovina' Focaal 49, 15-30.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Women and Political Representation

Format: lecture and discussion

Objective: Why is so difficult to have political representation of women? Why politics is not attractive to women? How 'politics' is valued and understood in general in a post-conflict society? Why always that dilema between voting for a woman and voting for the candidate we support? Why is so difficult for women to move away from men agenda and their way of behaviour in formal politics? Among others, the session will address these questions using case of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.

assignments: Core text: Helms E. 2007. '"Politics is a whore": women, morality and victimhood in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina' In: Bougarel X., Helms E. & Duijzings G. (eds) The new Bosnian mosaic: memories, identities and moral claims in a post-war society. Aldershot: Ashgate. 235-254.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Ambivalent Civil Society

Format: short lecture and discussion

Objective: The final session will be a kind of course revision, particularly from the aspect of civil society’s role in peacebuilding and its potential for change. Although its role has already being demonstrated throughout the whole course through specific initiatives addressing shortcomings of peacebuidling process, its role – both potentials and shortcomings – will be specifically addressed during this session. We will see how it is about the realm where most changes happen: from political action (care for public good) through substitute for missing social services to source of livelihood.

Assignments

DAY NINE

date: 11 July instructor(s) Nikolai Vukov, PhD

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

instructor(s): Nikolai Vukov, PhD

topic(s): Traumatic Pasts, Social Fragmentation and the Future: Memory to Societal Divisions and Reconciliation. Introduction to the main themes covered by the course

format:interactive lecture

Objective:

assignments:

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Religious Identities and Societal Divisions. Remembering the ‘Revival Process’ in Bulgaria

Format: Presentation

Objective:

assignments:

Text: Vukov, N., Resettlements, Memory and Commemorative Returns: the Noting of the “Revival” Process in Bulgaria and the Politics of Memory. In: Migration, Memory, Heritage: Socio-Cultural Approaches to the Bulgarian-Turkish Border. Sofia, IEFSEM – BAS: 12–28. – http://www.2sidesborder.org/migration%20EN/index.html#/1/

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Studying divided societies and reconciliation from the perspectives of memory studies

Format: discussion

Questions:

How does memory of traumatic events in the past trigger and maintain societal divisions and how these divisions are reflected in memory practices and commemorations?

What implications have societal divisions got on collective memory and its political, social, and cultural representation?

How is memory of societal divisions in the past maintained and reproduced over time?

Objective:

Assignments

Suggested Reading

Bergholz, M., Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in Balkan Community (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016).

Herf, J., Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys (Harvard University Press, 1997).

Richards, M., “Francoism, Social Change and Memories of the Spanish Civil War” – History and Memory, vol. 4, Fall 2002.

DAY TEN

date: 12 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Post-socialist Societies: Divisions, Fragmentations and Reconciliation

instructor(s) Nikolai Vukov, PhD

format:exercise, interactive lecture

Objective:

assignments:

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Societal Divisions and Gender Transformations: Notes on the Post-Communist Transition Processes in Eastern Europe

Format: Presentation

Objective:

assignments:

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Societal Divisions and Gender Transformations: Notes on the Post-Communist Transition Processes in Eastern Europe(with references to the film “The Lives of Others”)

Format: discussion

Questions:

How are social divisions affected by the post-communist transition in Eastern Europe?

What are the gender dimensions of post-communist transformations and how they contribute to societal divisions and reconciliation?

How ‘collective’ is collective memory about traumatic pasts and what are the means of reconciling societal divisions within the individuals’ private worlds?

Objective:

Assignments

Suggested readings:

Kopecek, M., ed., Past in the Making: Historical Revisionism in Central Europe after 1989 (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2007).

Verdery, K., The Political Lives of Dead Bodies. Reburial and Post-socialist Change (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

DAY ELEVEN

date:13 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Conflict and division

instructor(s) Almut Rochowanski, Peacebuilding UK

format: Interactive lecture

Objective:

assignments:

To discuss three case studies of different forms of division and how it has been created or exacerbated by conflict. Who created these divisions and why and how? How do notions of gender enter into these divisions?

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Women’s role in peacebuilding.

Format: Presentation of key studies and research on the above.

Assignments: the story of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915. Video.

How WWI split women’s movements all over the world?

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Regressive gender roles during armed conflict and their effect on women’s mobilizing

Format: interactive lecture

assignments:

DAY TWELVE

date:14 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Conclusions/”learnings” for activism and for women mobilizing for peace.

instructor(s) Almut Rochowanski, Peacebuilding UK

format: interactive lecture

Objective:

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30 Lecturer: Prof. Paolo Minuto, Italian Cinema History, University for Foreigners Reggio Calabria, Italy

Topic: National reconciliation in post-war Italy: The Industry: Cinecittà and the studios

Format: Lecture and clips screening

Objective: to show how the economy of the entertainment was affected by the war and as it was restored and transformed after the war

Assignments: discussions about the importance of the economy of the entertainment in the wars and in the post wars contexts

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: National reconciliation in post-war Italy: The Neorealism peiod I

Format: Lecture and clips screening

Objective: How the social issues and the Myth of the Liberation in the Cinema could rebuild a national union and a national identification

Assignments: Discussion about the modern Myth created by media and cinema in particular con help to build a new national unification and a new national identity.

DAY THIRTEEN

DAY FORTEEN

WEEKEND July, 15-16

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)

DAY FIFTEEN

date:17 July

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

Tutor: Prof. Paolo Minuto

Topic National reconciliation in post-war Italy: The Neorealism peiod II

Format: Lecture and clips screening

Assignments: Discussion on how and wether the new national identity can be rebuild by the cinema and how and wether it could reach the popular and almost illiterate sectors of the population.

Objective: How the popular cinema can be useful for the national post war reconciliation and the Italian national language problem as part of the reconciliation and unification problem

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

topic(s): National reconciliation in post-war Italy: The Comedy Italian Style in the Neorealism period

instructor(s) Prof. Paolo Minuto, Italian Cinema History, University for Foreigners Reggio Calabria, Italy

format: Lecture and clips screening

Objective: How the popular cinema can be useful for the national post war reconciliation and the Italian national language problem as part of the reconciliation and unification problem

assignments: Discussion on how the popular narrative in cinema and how a national language can serve as reconciliation engine for the new entire nation

Lunch

12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: National reconciliation in post-war Italy: The Sixties: The new Italian Cinema and the war memory

Format Lecture and clips screening

Objective: How the Italian Cinema reflected the effects of the post war reconciliation in Italy after fifteen years from the end of the War

DAY SIXTEEN

Date: July 18

Morning Session

Time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic(s): Introduction into Women, Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution

Instructor(s) Prof. Dr. Ulrike E. Auga

Format: Lecture and Discussion

Objective: Key Concepts in Womens’ and Gender Studies, Key concepts of the category Religion, Introduction methodology for the decolonization of knowledge production, concepts of conflict resolution and solidarity

Assignments:

Reading: Auga, Ulrike, von Braun, Christina, “Beyond Boundaries: Introduction”, in: Ulrike Auga, Christina von Braun (Eds.), Gender in Conflicts. Palestine- Israel- Germany, Berlin, et al.: LIT Verlag, 2006, 1-14.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the Israel/Palestine Confrontations 1

Format: Discussion of Text 1

Objective: Intersectionality of categories of Gender, Nation, Religion, Race; Interdependence of epistemic, economic violence and sovereign violence; Violence and Conflict Resolution; Islam and Gender

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the Israel/Palestine Confrontations 2

Format: Discussion of Text 2

Assignments:

Reading: Auga, Ulrike, “Undoing Gender: Nationalisms, Emerging Communities and Gender in View of Globalization. Also a Gender Based Reading of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Charter of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)“, in: Ulrike Auga, Christina von Braun (Eds.), Gender in Conflicts. Palestine- Israel- Germany, Berlin, et al.: LIT Verlag, 2006, 37-59.

DAY SEVENTEEN

Date: July 19

Morning Session

Time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic(s): Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the Transition of Eastern European Countries

instructor(s) Prof. Dr. Ulrike E. Auga

Format: Introduction Lecture and Discussion

Objective: Historic, cultural and theoretical knowledge on the assigned area; discursivity of power, knowledge and truth production; the concept of the radical social imaginary

Assignments:

Reading: Auga, Ulrike, “Resistance and the Radical Social Imaginary: A Genealogy from “Eastern European” Dissidence to New Social Movements: Connecting the Debates between Activism and Postcolonial, Post-secular and Queer Epistemology”, in: Ulrike Auga et al. (Eds.), Resistance and Visions - Postcolonial, Post-secular and Queer Contributions. Journal of the ESWTR, 22 (2014) 5-30.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12.30

Topic: Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the Transition of Eastern European Countries: Example The Peaceful Revolution in East Germany – Gains and Losses

Format: discussion of Text 3

Objective: the ambiguous role of Christian churches as dominant and resistant agents; the secularism, postsecularism; return of religions, as violent and emancipatory Agent; Agency, Religion and Gender; Concepts of Subject formation, agency and human flourishing; resistance and vision

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Gender, Religion, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the transition of Eastern European Countries: the Example Russia –Neonationalism and constructions of Religion and Gender and Resistance

Format: Watch extract from resistant performance; Discussion Interdependence Nationalism and Fundamentalism and Gender Construction, Violence and Resistance, the importance of resistant and visionary new social movements

Assignments

DAY EIGHTEEN

Date: July 20

Morning Session

Time: 9.00 – 10.30

Topic(s): Gender, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the South African Transition and its Negotiated Revolution 1

Instructor(s) Prof. Dr. Ulrike E. Auga

Format: Introduction Lecture and Discussion

Objective: the ambiguous role of Religion as dominant and resistant agent, nation-building, nationalism, gender and Religion; Nation State + market economy = democracy?

Assignments:

Reading: Auga, Ulrike, “Truth and Reconciliation or Masculine Redemption at the Cape of Good Hope? Religious Legitimation of National Gender Construction”, in: Julius Heinicke, Hilmar Heister, Tobias Robert Klein (Eds.) Kuvaka Ukama – Building Bridges. Festschrift für Flora Veit-Wild, Bettina Weiss Verlag, Kalliope: Heidelberg 2012. 257-273.

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Gender, Violence and Conflict Resolution in the South African Transition and its Negotiated Revolution 2

Format: Discussion of Text 4

Objective: The ambiguity of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions; The problem of rights discourses for women and gender constructions; Differentiate between hegemonic masculinities and oppressed masculinities and Religion.

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon session

13.30-15.00

Topic: Conclusion, Summary, Outlook

Format: Summarize three days, Repeat and deepen concepts, discuss remaining questions

Assignments

DAY NINETEEN

date: July 21

Morning Session

time: 9.00 – 10.30

topic(s): Round table “The role of Civil Initiatives in Reconcilliation of the Divided Societies”

instructor(s)

Objective:

assignments:

Break

10.30 -11.00

Morning Session

11.00 – 12. 30

Topic: Round table (continuation)

Assignments:

Lunch

Time: 12.30-13.30

Afternoon Session

13.30-15.00

Closing ceremony

Social dinner

20:30-23.00

DAY TWENTY

DAY TWENTY ONE

WEEKEND July, 22-23

Excursions (to be chosen by the participants)