Provisional programme 15 and 16 September 2003

Sunday Night

18.00 welcome drinks in the bar

19.00 dinner for those who stay at the conference venue hotel

20.30 briefing for speakers

Monday

9.00-9.30 registration and coffee

9.30 to 10.30 plenary welcome and speeches (chair Anke Kooke)

-- word of welcome by Paul van Tongeren

-- James Tobin on a general overview and history of CRE

-- Arie de Ruijter on social exclusion and violence, and the challenges for education

-- Jean-Pierre Titz on the Council of Europe’s programme "Local Partnerships for Preventing and Combating Violence at School"

10.30 to 11.00 coffee

11.00 to 12.30 working groups, first session

· Working group 1) how to create a basis for support for conflict resolution projects in school

Helmolt Rademacher and Jennifer Batton

· Working group 2) peer mediation

Claude Moreau, Richard Cohen, Helen Johannessen

· Working group 3) teacher (in-service) training for peace and conflict resolution education

Anke Kooke, Lennart Vriens and Mireia Uranga Arakistain

· Working group 9) evaluation of lessons learned, important research findings

Randy Compton, Mark Bitel, Tricia Jones

· Working group 10) the need for a gender dimension in education

Namtip Asornkool, Marjan Kroon, Anke van Dam, Valerie Niyrahabimana

12.30 to 14.30 lunch

14.30 to 16.00 working groups, second session

16.00 to 16.30 tea break

16.30 to 18.00 panel debate on the impact and importance of CRE programmes

With Claude Moreau, Belinda Hopkins, Randy Compton, Tricia Jones,

chaired by Valerie Clements

19.00 dinner for those who stay at the conference venue hotel

Tuesday

9.30 to 10.15 plenary speeches (chair Paul van Tongeren)

-- Ted Wachtel on restorative practices

-- Valerie Dovey on peacable school communities: reflections on a pioneering journey in South Africa

10.15 to 10.30 coffee break

10.30 to 12.00 working groups, first session

· Working group 4) restorative practices

Belinda Hopkins and Ted Wachtel

· Working group 5) peaceable schools

James Tobin and Leo Pauw

· Working group 6) conflict resolution in the national school curriculum

Randy Compton and Vibeke Thue

· Working group 7) curriculum change and social cohesion in conflict affected societies

Sobhi Tawil and Alexandra Harley

· Working group 8) tolerance and co-existence education (especially in multi-cultural settings)

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Agata Dziewulska and Margaret Percy

12.00 to 13.30 lunch

13.30 to 15.00 working groups, second session

15.00 to 15.30 tea break

15.30 to 16.30 closing session with feedback from outcomes/discussions in working groups

Lennart Vriens, Tricia Jones

16.30 end of conference

16.30 drinks in the bar

19.00 dinner for those who stay at the conference venue hotel for an extra night