Abstracts and Biographies:
Indigenous
Mending the Web: Conflict Transformation between
Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians
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Polly Walker
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| This workshop will explore some of the profound differences
between Indigenous and Western worldviews, which affect the conceptualization and practice
of consensual conflict management. It will also facilitate consideration of the
process-structures that Aboriginal and non-Indigenous Australians have found effective in
transforming conflict between them. The workshop will integrate research
participants’ stories which illuminate aspects of intercultural conflict
transformation regarding deep understanding, developing relationships, understanding
emotions, positive social action, balancing inequalities and self-transformation. |
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| Polly O. Walker completed her PhD at the University of
Queensland. Her topic concerns conflict transformation between Aboriginal and
non-Indigenous Australians. She currently lectures in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Unit and the University of Queensland. She recently participated in the Bohmian
Dialogues between Indigenous and Western scientists which explore the connections between
Native science and Quantum theory. She is a certified mediator and has implemented
workshops for the ADR branch of the Queensland Justice Department as well as for
Indigenous and non-Indigenous community groups. She has also written a number of journal
articles on Indigenous issues regarding conflict transformation. |
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