Programme

Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace

Engaging Invited and Invented Spaces for Peace

Johannesburg & Pretoria, South Africa
29 May 4 June 2015

Organised by the College of Graduate Studies and its Institute

for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa
&
Medical Research Council Violence-University of South Africa Violence,
Injury and Peace Research Unit
Under the Auspices of the Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace
Initiated by the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)

International Symposia on the Contributions

of Psychology to Peace
International Symposia on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace enable
scholars to present their current work in peace psychology with emphasis
on the production of contextually-informed psycho-social knowledge applied
to the prevention and mitigation of direct and structural violence and the
promotion of harmonious and equitable human relations and systems.
Additionally, Symposia provide a platform for the mutual exchange of ideas
and experiences in which participants engage in intercultural dialogue
aimed at reducing cultural bias and ethnocentrism in research and practice
in peace psychology. The goal is to bring forward voices from cultures and
geohistorical contexts that are often not included in peace discourses and
to build an international community that promotes research and action on
peace with social justice.

Welcome from
the Vice-Principal:
Research and Innovation,
University of South Africa

Esteemed delegates, on behalf of the

University of South Africa, an African
university shaping futures in the service
of humanity, it is my pleasure to
welcome you to the 14th International
Symposium on the Contributions of
Psychology to Peace. This is a timely
gathering, when South Africa enters its
21st year as a political democracy, when

the development goals of the

African continent require innovative
understandings of the notion of
development itself, when peace
scholars and practitioners all over
the globe recognise the value of
partnership-based work on the nexus
between social justice, health and
social policies, economic structures,
climate change and peace promotion.
In these respects, the focus on
Contributions of Psychology to Peace
is an opportunity to support and
develop cross-disciplinary scholarship
and practice on the psychosocial drivers
of peacebuilding. I commend you in
your choice of the Symposium theme
Engaging Invited and Invented Spaces
for Peace as it raises questions about
how peace workers may engage both
governments and social movements.
This is a messy yet important terrain of
work that requires peace scholars and
practitioners to ask difficult and critical
questions of governments and social
movements from a position of reflexivity
and reflection about what constitutes
empirically defensible and socially
relevant knowledge.

We are particularly pleased that our

colleagues in the Institute for Social
and Health Sciences and the Medical
Research Council-University of South
Africa Violence, Injury and Peace
Research Unit have facilitated a platform
for mutual exchange of ideas, and a
critical review of current developments
and experiences, aimed at decreasing
cultural bias and ethnocentricity
in research and practice in peace
psychology. I commend the Symposium
for aiming to privilege marginalised
voices so as to build an international
community that promotes peace-related
research and action in all regions of
the world.

The Symposium is an apt opportunity

to engage with peace scholars and
practitioners who have been leading
agents in peacebuilding efforts especially
across the African continent and
African diaspora. It is anticipated that
the Symposium will help local scholars
and practitioners to locate their work
within international, traditional and
contemporary approaches to peace,
and provide international participants
the opportunity to gain insights into
Africa-centred systems of peace.
I look forward to reading the
planned volume of proceedings.
Welcome to an engaged space.

Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng

Institutional Hosts and Organisers

College of Graduate Studies and its Institute for Social and Health Sciences,
University of South Africa

Welcome from the

Chair of the Committee
for the Psychological
Study of Peace

Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence,

Injury and Peace Research Unit

Local Site Coordinators

Dear Colleagues

On behalf of the Committee for the

Psychological Study of Peace, I welcome you
to the 14th International Symposium on
the Contributions of Psychology to Peace.
These biennial symposia offer a unique
blend of opportunities to contribute to local
and international scholarship and activism
on peace and social justice. You will notice
the number of delegates to the symposium
is small, which is intentional and designed
to encourage everyone to fully engage
in discussions, dialogues and informal
presentations. We expect the South African
symposium to be particularly stimulating
because of its rich historical context,
contemporary challenges, and prospects for
peace in the future. As a peace scholar, you will find the cultural activities and site visits
well integrated with the overall programme. We are grateful to our hosts, Mohamed
Seedat and Shahnaaz Suffla, for making it possible for us to engage in critical analyses,
develop collaborative relationships, enhance our scholarship, and mobilise our
common interest in the promotion of peace with social justice.
Cordially,

Mohamed Seedat
Shahnaaz Suffla

Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace

Chair
Daniel J. Christie
Members
Nikola Balvin (Australia)
J. Christopher Cohrs (Germany)
Reeshma Haji (Canada)
Takehiko Ito (Japan)
Siew Fang Law (Australia)
Shelley McKeown (UK)
Cristina Montiel (Philippines)
Noraini Noor (Malaysia)
Ann Sanson (Australia)
Shahnaaz Suffla (South Africa)
Laura Taylor (USA)
Senior Advisors
Ruben Ardila (Colombia)
Klaus Boehnke (Germany)
Diane Bretherton (Australia)
Andrew Dawes (South Africa)
Morton Deutsch (USA)
Janel Gauthier (Canada)
Michael Wessells (USA)

Professor Daniel (Dan) J. Christie

Friday, 29 May 2015

Venue: Prospect 1, Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg
07:30 08:30
08:30 10:15

Friday, 29 May 2015

15:45 16:15

Registration
Welcome & Introductions
Mohamed Seedat & Shahnaaz Suffla: Local Site Coordinators
Dan Christie: Chair, Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace

10:15 10:45

Tea

11:00 12:30

Visit to Constitution Hill

13:00 14:00

Lunch: Sunnyside Park Hotel

14:00 15:30

Opening Ceremony
Chair: Mohamed Seedat

Human Rights and U.S. Psychologists Wrongs:

The Undermining of Professional Ethics in an
Era of Enhanced Interrogation
Michael Wessells
Response: The South Talks Back
Umesh Bawa
16:15 16:45

Engaging Invited and Invented Spaces for Peace:

Setting the Context
Shahnaaz Suffla & Mohamed Seedat
Messages of Support
Professor Glenda Gray: President, South African
Medical Research Council
Shilela Nkadimeng: Institute for Social & Health Sciences,
University of South Africa
Professor Greg Cuthbertson: Executive Dean,
School of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa
Opening Address
South Africas Reconciliation and Development Gains and
Challenges: Implications for Peace
Advocate George Bizos
15:30 15:45

Tea

Keynote Address
Chair: Norman Duncan

Session I: Rethinking Geo-political

and Disciplinary Boundaries
Chair: Sandy Lazarus
Reconciling Paradigms from North and South:
Toward a More Inclusive Peace Psychology
Siew Fang Law & Diane Bretherton
Respondent:
Cristina Montiel

16:45 17:00

Summary Reflections: Day One

Dan Christie

17:00 18:00

Small Group Discussions

17:00 18:00

Meeting: Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace

19:30

Welcome Dinner: Italian Club

Address
Psychologies for Peace
Professor Saths Cooper
President: International Union of Psychological Science
President: Pan-African Psychology Union

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Venue: Auditorium, Apartheid Museum
08:30 08:35

08:35 09:45

12:00 13:30

Panel III: Doing Peace in Contexts of Militarism

Chair: Noraini Noor

Message from Pro Vice-Chancellor,

University of South Africa
Professor Narend Baijnath

Sectarianism and Geo-political Complexities

in the Muslim World: Implications for Peace
Ighsaan Taliep

Panel I
Race in the Time of Peace: The Vicissitudes of Memory,
Stories and Narratives of Post-Apartheid South Africa
Chair: Michael Wessells

Kashmir and Palestine Two Genocides, Two Roads to Peace

Andre Vitchek

The Apartheid Archive Project: Polemics,

Problematics and Potentialities
Garth Stevens

Palestinians Voices on Colonisation

Zeina Amro & Fardous Salameh

Critical Moments in Processes of Social Exclusion and

Inclusion: Black Student Narratives
Peace Kiguwa

Respondents:
Ebrahim Shabbir Deen
Boia Efraime Junior
Kwara Kekana

Raced Memory: Old and New Narratives

Rejane Williams
Respondent:
Norman Duncan
09:45 10: 00 Tea
10:00 12:00

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Panel II: Naming and Explaining Violence in South Africa

Chair: Fatima Castillo

13:30 14:15

Lunch: Apartheid Museum

14:15 15:30

Visit of Apartheid Museum

15:30 15:45

Tea

15:45 17:00

Dialogue
Facilitator: Garth Stevens

17:00 17:15

Summary Reflections: Day Two

Garth Stevens

19:00

Dinner: oneNINEone Restaurant, Rosebank Hyatt Regency

Why Do South Africans Aggress Against Foreigners?

Thoughts on Xenophobic Violence
Kopano Ratele
Structural and Direct Violence in South Africas
Mining Industry. Miners Shot Down, 1922 2013
Andy Dawes
Documentary Screening Miners Shot Down
by
Rehad Desai

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Venue: JOCOD and UNISA Institute for Social & Health Sciences, Lenasia
08:30 09:30

09:30 10:45

Digital Story Screening: Part I

Thembelihle: Peoples Plight and Power
Panel IV: Protest, Development and Peace
Chair: Molapo Qhobela
Panellists:
Dan Bovu
Fatima Alvarez Castillo
Vusumuzi Dlamini
Musa Mabasa
Ntombikayise Ntsizwane
Deliwe Segodi
Andre Vitchek

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11:15 12:30

Session II: Community Dialogues,

Engaged Methods and Peace
Chair: Ashley Van Niekerk
Preventing Violence Through Hope and Change
Mohamed Seedat, Shahnaaz Suffla, Tasneem Hassem,
Ayanda Simelane, Shilela Nkadimeng,
Mapula Mochudi & Lesego Kgatitswe

10:45 11:15

Sunday, 31 May 2015

Tea

Digital Story Screening: Part II

Sunrise in an Unlikely Place
Struggle, Hope and Agency:
Panel Discussion Continued

12:30 13:00

Photo Exhibition
My Voice in Pictures: African Childrens Vision of Safety
Shahnaaz Suffla, Umesh Bawa, Royter Choongo,
Admatha Ngalamika & Davies Chanda

13:00 14:00

Vote of Thanks
Royal Lekoba
Lunch: JOCOD

14:00 15:00

Visit to Thembelihle

15:00 15:15

Tea: UNISA Institute for Social & Health Sciences

15:15 15:30

Summary Reflections: Day Three

Carl Marc L. Ramota

17:30 19:30

Commentary and Documentary Screening

Rwanda Gambit
by
Andre Vitchek

19:30

Dinner: Sunnyside Park Hotel

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Monday, 1 June 2015

Venue: Prospect 1, Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg
08:30 09:45

Monday, 1 June 2015

11:45 13:15

Session V: National Illustrations, Global Lessons

Chair: Laura Taylor

Session III: Gender, Power and Peace

Chair: Kopano Ratele

Terrorism-related Violence and Trauma in Pakistan:

Implications for Psychologists and Policy
Zahid Shahab Ahmed

Structural Approaches to Reshaping Negative Gender Norms

during Adolescence: Preliminary Results from a Systematic
Review of Evaluated Interventions
Nikola Balvin

An Analysis of Conflicts in Thailand During 2013-2014

Dusadee Yoelao

Black South African Womens Experiences

of Suffering and Healing
Puleng Segalo

Positioning Theory and the Philippine Peace Process

Charlie Inzon
13:15 14:00

Gender Justice: Gender in Peace Negotiations

on Southern Philippines
Teresa Lorena Jopson
09:45 10:00
10:00 11:45

Lunch: Sunnyside Park Hotel

14:00 15:30

Session VI: Capacitation and

Educational Approaches to Peace
Chair: Klaus Boehnke

Tea
Integrated Education in Northern Ireland:
Education for Peace?
Shelley McKeown

Session IV: Invited and Invented Spaces in Community

Chair: Umesh Bawa
Transforming an Invited Space to an Invented Space:
Reflecting on Palestinian Lives
Zeina Amro

Teachers as Agents of Peace and

Social Cohesion in South Africa
Yusuf Sayed & Azeem Badroodien

Implications of Community Cohesion and Coping Strategies

for Mental Health in Colombia
Laura Taylor

If a Close Friend is from Another Religion,

Are You More Open to Other Faiths?
Reeshma Haji & Richard N. Lalonde

Identifying and Mobilising Intangible Factors that

Promote Community Peace
Sandy Lazarus
Inventing Emancipatory Cultural and Academic Spaces for
Palestinian Youth: A Case Study in Resistance
Fardous Salameh

Promoting Violence Prevention and Social Change

through Educational Entertainment Media in the Ongoing
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Rezarta Bilali
15:30 15:45

Tea

Invited and Invented Spaces: Strategies for Survival, Resistance

of Peace Movements, Grassroots Organizations
Carl Marc L. Ramota & Tyrone Reden L. Sy
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Monday, 1 June 2015

15:45 16:45

16:45 17:00

Roundtable Discussion
Enacting Peace Psychology Research
and Scholarship Peacefully
Diane Bretherton & Siew Fang Law

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

10:30 10:45

Tea

10:45 12:15

Session VIII: Mainstreaming Children and Youth in Peace

Chair: Shelley McKeown

Summary Reflections: Day Four

Reeshma Hajie

17:00 18:00

Small Group Discussions

17:00 18:00

Meeting: Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace

19:30

Dinner: Sunnyside Park Hotel

Youth Engagement in Framing Paths to Peace in the

African Great Lakes Region: Negotiating Cultural Spaces
and Voices for Transformative Actions
Elavie Ndura

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Rethinking Violence Against Children:

The Lived Experiences of Children in Somalia
Kathleen Kostelny

Venue: Kgorong Building, University of South Africa, Pretoria

&
Auditorium, Groenkloof Campus, University of Pretoria

Rebuilding Hope on Josina Machel Island: Towards a Culturally

Mediated Model of Psychotherapeutic Intervention
Boia Efraime Junior

09:00 09:15

09:15 10:30

Welcome
Professor Tennyson Mgutshini: Acting Deputy Registrar,
University of South Africa
Professor Lesiba Teffo: Director of School of Transdisciplinary
Research Institutes, College of Graduate Studies,
University of South Africa

Peace-building in Post-Genocide Rwanda:

The Role of Radio La Benevolencija
Michelle Twali
12:15 12:30

Session VII: Global Voices on Peace

Chair: Ann Sanson

12:30 13:30

Lunch: Kgorong Building

13:30 15:00

Visit to Union Buildings

Subjective Probabilities of a Nuclear War:

Does the Long-Term Decline Create Spaces for Peace
Klaus Boehnke

15:30 16:30

The Making of Global Peace Strategists

H.E. Maqsoud Kruse
Global Resistance to Global Capitalism:
The Potential for Constructing and
Consolidating Democratic Spaces and Practices
Fatima Alvarez Castillo

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Respondent to Sessions VII & VIII:

Siphamandla Zondi

Public Lecture and Reception

Hosted by the University of Pretoria
Chair: Norman Duncan
Peace Psychology for the 21st Century
Dan Christie

20:00

Dinner: Sunnyside Park Hotel

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Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Venue: Prospect 1, Sunnyside Park Hotel, Johannesburg
08:30 10:30

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

12:15 12:30

Handover to 15th International Symposium on the

Contributions of Psychology to Peace, Italy, 2017
Nikola Balvin

12:30 13:00

Global Solidarity for Peace

Delegates of the 14th International Symposium
on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace

Session IX: Humanisation, Memory and Forgiveness

Chair: Andy Dawes
Humanizing and Dehumanizing the Other:
Ethnic Conflict in the Malaysian Context
Dan Christie & Noraini Noor
Memory, Memorialisation and the Legacy of Nelson Mandela:
Triumphs, Challenges and Contributions for Peace from
Post-Apartheid South Africa
Umesh Bawa

13:00 14:00

Lunch: Sunnyside Park Hotel

14:00

Free Afternoon / Shopping

14:00

Meetings / Small Group Discussions

19:00

Dinner: Moyo Melrose Arch

Application of Restorative Conferencing in

School Discipline Practice: An Illustrative Example
Augustine Nwoye

10:30 10:45

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Thursday, 4 June 2015

Tour to Cradle of Humankind

Forgiveness in Peace Processes

Claudia Patricia Pineda Marn & Wilson Lpez-Lpez

09:30

Depart Sunnyside Park Hotel

10:30 12:30

Tour

Psychological Features of Human Rights Versus

Territorial Rights in New Democracies
Cristina Montiel

12:30 14:00

Lunch: Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens

14:00

Return to Sunnyside Park Hotel

15:00

Free Afternoon

19:00

Dinner: Sunnyside Park Hotel

Tea

10:45 11:45

Closing Conversation:
Doing Peace in Invited and Invented Spaces
Facilitators: Michael Wessells & Teresa Lorena Jopson

11:45 12:15

Closing and Vote of Thanks

Dan Christie, Shahnaaz Suffla & Mohamed Seedat

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Institute for Social and Health Sciences

Medical Research Council ViolenceUniversity of South Africa Violence,

Injury and Peace Research Unit

Vision

Purpose

A global Africa-centred Institute of excellence in the social and health sciences

Support the populations health status and quality of life through research,
training and advocacy aimed at reducing the burden of violence and injury

Mission
To commit science with compassion in the service of community

Objectives
Conduct transdisciplinary violence, injury and peace research

Objectives
Engage in interdisciplinary research in the social and health sciences
Support the accelerated development of next-generation researchers
Champion research-orientated community-engaged interventions
Produce Africa-centred knowledge in the service of science-society dialogue
Foster critical scholarship to strengthen compassionate communities

Contribute to contextually-sensitive prevention sciences

Cultivate innovations and technologies in support
of research and knowledge applications
Build safety and peace promotion, and prevention expertise
Maintain demonstration initiatives to support research,
capacitation and knowledge brokerage
Encourage use of research to champion prevention
and promotive policy and practice

Grow collaborations that contribute to the global knowledge economy

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Institute for Social and Health Sciences

University of South Africa

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