Eleventh International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace

Theme: Improving Young Peoples Lives in Post-Conflict Societies.

11th -17th June 2009, University of Ulster, Coleraine Northern Ireland.

Thursday 11th June 2009

18:00- Welcome reception
19:30- Dinner

Sunday 14th June 2009

Breakfast 8:00- 9:30am
Bus departure at 09:30. Sight-seeing around Coleraine/Londonderry area. Lunch will be in Londonderry and Dinner will be
in Ballycastle. Return to Coleraine at 9:30pm.

Tuesday 16h June 2009

Breakfast 8:00- 9:30am
Bus departure at 9:30am. Trip to Corrymeela. Return at 13:30.

Wednesday 17th June 2009

08:00-09:30 Breakfast
Departure of Delegates

Eleventh International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace

Theme: Improving Young Peoples Lives in Post-Conflict Societies.
11th -17th June 2009, University of Ulster, Coleraine Northern Ireland.

Individual session format: 20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion.

08:00-09:30
9:30-10:00

Friday
12th June

Saturday
13th June

Monday
15th June`

Tuesday
16th June

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

Breakfast

Keynote speaker:

Keynote speaker:

From "guerilla war" to

Bus trip to Corrymeela

normal life: problems

Pete Shirlow
Northern Ireland and

10:00-10:30

Brandon Hamber

of ex-free Aceh

Departure from main

INCORE

movement combatants

University entrance

www.incore.ulster.ac.uk

during and after post-

at 09:30

the reproduction of

conflict reintegration.

violence

Hamdi Muluk (Indonesia)

Return to University at

Ichsan Malik (Indonesia)

13:30

Discussion following

Discussion following

from Keynote

From keynote

Interreligious similarities:
Predicting differences
in religious outgroup
bias.
Reeshma Haji (UK)

10:30-11:00

Friday
12th June

Saturday
13th June

Monday
15th June

Peace Psychology

No matter who

Dilemmas of peace,

concerned with

wins, children always

security, and ethics in

children and

lose: How the wars in

adolescents.

Iraq and Afganistan

assistance to young

Herbert Blumberg (UK)

Affect U.S. Children.

Afgan people.

Judith Van Hoorn (USA)

Mike Wessells (USA)

organising psychosocial

11:00-11:15

Refreshments

Refreshments

Refreshments

11:15-11:45

The impact of growing

The road to peace

Improving the protection

up in Northern Ireland

in Iraq

and psychosocial

on socio-moral

Amer Hosin (UK)

wellbeing of young

reasoning.

children following armed

Neil Ferguson (UK)

conflict: Results from

research in Northern
Uganda.
Kathleen Kostelny (USA)

11:45- 12:15

Tuesday
16th June

The Micro-ecology of

Dimensions and

Addressing multi-

religious segregation

Demographic correlates

cultural learning in

in Northern Ireland.

of (anti) militaristic

Pesatren: A way to

Russell Orr (UK)

attitudes.

enhance building

Chris Cohrs (UK)

block of peace.
Ismail Suardi Wekke
(Indonesia)

Refreshments

Friday
12th June

Saturday
13th June

Monday
15th June

12:15-13:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

13:30-14:00

Majority versus minority

Mothers' social identity

A model of training in

view of prejudice

as a protective factor

dialogue and

In Northern Ireland.

for mother and child

peacebuilding with youth

Alex Igundunasse (UK)

mental health in post-

in post conflict African

accord Belfast

communities

Christine Merrilees

Barbara Tint (USA)

Tuesday
16th June
Lunch

(USA)

14:00- 14:30

Multi-cultural camp to

A JOINT PRESENTATION

promote co-existence

ON THE TOPIC OF

and peace among

Keynote presentation

Childrens development
Of enemy images.

Chuck Richardson

Stelios Georgiou
(Cyprus)

Indonesian youths.

Social reintegration of girl

The Spirit of

Yayah Khisbiyah (Indonesia)

mothers in fighting

Enniskillen Trust

forces and their children:

www.soetrust.co.uk

A community based
participatory project

14:30-15:00

Integrated education in

Discussion leading

National identity and

from presentation

Ingroup-outgroup

Northern Ireland:

Susie McKay (USA)

A review.

And

Attitudes with Catholic

Ulrike Niens (UK)

Angela Veale (Ireland)

and Protestant children

in Northern Ireland.
Liz Gallagher (UK)

Friday
12th June

Saturday
13th June

Monday
15th June

Tuesday
16th June

15:00-15:15

Refreshments

Refreshments

Refreshments

15:15-15:45

Intergroup contact and

Scientistic attitude and

Social information of youth

integrated schooling in

the perceptions of a

in Indonesia: The Muslim

towards different

Northern Ireland

group of young Iranian

youth internet survey.

solutions to the Cyprus

Maurice Stringer (UK)

women on social justice

Application to religious

conflict: the interplay

and ways of resolving

based peace education.

between justice,feasibility

cultural conflicts.

Benina Gould (Indonesia)

and emotions

Mansoor Hameedy (Iran)

15:45-16:15

Roundtable discussion
1 hour slot
Theme:

Roundtable discussion.
1 hour slot
Theme:

Refreshments
Young peoples attitudes

Evanthia Lyons (UK)

Socially responsible

Lived in experiences

advocacy for young

after apartheid in

people: Where we

South Africa.

have been:where to

Noraini Noor

go.

(Malyasia)

Anne Anderson (USA)

16:15-16:45

The role of education

The role of mothers in

in improving the

peace- building who are

Discussion following

Beyond Rhetoric?

lives of children and

often completely

presentation

Perspectives on learning

young people growing up

marginalised by

for a sustainable world.

in communities in conflict

communities in conflict

Solveig Hagglund
(Sweden)

18:00-

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner

Dinner