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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Victorian community psychologists and others might be interested in this series of one-day seminars offered as an Honours unit but available as a CPD series or separate sessions on an audit basis over four Saturdays from August
29. The content looks exciting and painfully relevant to the current global (and local) context. Isn't about time we gave peace a chance?!</font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">For further information, please contact Dr Siew Fang Law at <a href="mailto:Siewfang.law@vu.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Siewfang.law@vu.edu.au</span></a> or 9919 5224</font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Heather</font></p>
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<div id="divRpF418257" style="direction:ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Siewfang Law [Siewfang.Law@vu.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 24 July 2015 11:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heather Gridley<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Promoting "Current Issues in Psychology" seminars in APS<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Heather, </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It would be wonderful if you could circulate this class to your network.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Peace Psychology: Current Issues in Psychology</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dates: Saturdays August 29, September 5, 12 and 19, 2015 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: D319, Building D, Footscray Nicholson Campus, Victoria University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Unit Description</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Every year millions of humans are displaced by war, repressive governments, and catastrophes of various kinds. As psychologists we often asked ourselves whether our work contributes to meaningful and positive change
in human lives. In this special unit <i>Peace Psychology: Current Issues in Psychology</i>, we will explore the ways in which contemporary conflict is interconnected with our personal, interpersonal, social and broader sociocultural, systemic and structural
world. In the class, students will engage in discussions and participate in interactive activities to enhance psychological understanding of peace, conflict and violence. We will have the opportunities to familiarise ourselves with literature on peace psychology,
political psychology and critical psychology. This unit of study will also introduce conflict resolution theory and its application to conflicts at interpersonal, group and community levels. Through seminar presentations, discussion and analysis, experiential
exercises, role-plays, problem-solving tasks and simulation, the unit aims to develop students' skills in understanding and practicing appropriate means of resolving or managing conflicts. By the end of the subject students should be familiar with a number
of psychological models, approaches and issues in conflict resolution and have developed the capacity to relate, integrate and apply new knowledge and practical skills in their own context and area of interest.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Lecturer:</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dr Siew Fang Law is a Senior Lecturer in College of Arts at Victoria University. She has Social and Applied Psychology background, and is currently the Program Coordinator of the postgraduate programs in International
Community Development in the College of Arts. Siew Fang received her PhD at RMIT University and completed her Master of Science in Social Psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. At international level, Siew Fang is a member of the Committee
for the Psychological Study of Peace, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Political Psychology and a co-editor of an upcoming volume Methodologies in Peace Psychology: Peaceful Research by Peaceful Means (Springer). She has worked as a consultant
with UNDP and UNESCO in Southeast Asia. Besides being an academic at VU, she is a practitioner at local level and mediates community disputes as a nationally Accredited Mediator in Australia. (Weblink:
<a href="http://www.vu.edu.au/contact-us/siew-fang-law" target="_blank">http://www.vu.edu.au/contact-us/siew-fang-law</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Guest Speaker:</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Professor Diane Bretherton was the founding director of the International Conflict Resolution Centre in the Psychology Department at the University of Melbourne and for many years chaired the Committee for the
Psychological Study of Peace of the International Union of Psychological Science. She is currently an Honorary Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Zhou En Lai
School of International Relations at the University of Nankai in Tianjin, China. She has previously contributed to the Springer Series in Peace Psychology as a co-editor of Peace Psychology in Australia and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the
Journal of Peace and Conflict. She has conducted conflict resolution and peace building workshops in many countries in the world, her most recent project being to facilitate a dialogue between indigenous (Mapuche) and non-indigenous people in Chile. She was
awarded the Morton Deutsch Award for Research in Conflict Resolution by the American Psychological Association, Washington, in 2011. She has also been made a member of the Order of Australia for theoretical contributions her discipline and for the practical
prevention of violence through promoting conflict resolution in the community. Her extensive experience of supervising the research of under-graduate and post-graduate psychology students who wished to make a contribution to the prevention of violence and
promotion of peace, within the Psychology Department at the University of Melbourne, informs the proposed book.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Further information, please contact Dr Siew Fang Law at <a href="mailto:Siewfang.law@vu.edu.au" target="_blank">
<span style="text-decoration:none">Siewfang.law@vu.edu.au</span></a> or 9919 5224</p>
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