Abstracts and Biographies:
Culture
Mediating across
cultures: reorienting values and attitudes
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Joanna Kalowski
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| Recent events both
national and international highlight the ambivalent feelings
Australians hold towards those we view as "other."
The purpose of this workshop is to permit dispute resolution
practitioners to examine their own responses
at this time, and to engage in a critical analysis
of a number of fundamental cross-cultural constructs. The goal is
to enable those working in cross-cultural settings to
revisit their own deeply held beliefs, and to
work through ways in which personal positions may
impact upon practice in the current environment. If
the group of participants were to arrive at an agreed view of the
effectiveness of key strategies, this could be widely
shared among conference delegates. |
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| Joanna Kalowski is a
mediator and management consultant with a lifelong commitment
to social justice and human rights issues. A former member of
the National Native Title Tribunal and the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal,
Jo has had the opportunity to examine the impact of policies on
people, and struggles with the idea that
statutes enshrining individual rights are of limited
use to those wishing to address the rights of groups, especially
minorities. She writes and lectures on cross-cultural
perspectives in mediation, education and
management practice. |
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