Program Schedule

(1 hour)

Choose one of the five options.

1. CULTURE:  Franca PETRONE: Developing a culturally sensitive mediation practice (facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
   
2. CULTURE: Cathy PICONE: Recovering from Whiteness: A workshop for whites working to end racism (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
   
3. PRACTICE THEORY:
   Judith MORRISON: Comparing conflict theories for scoping problems and means for their resolution (30 minute paper)
   [notes on this topic]
   with
   Rosemary LYSTER: Managing conflict in water management committees (30 minute paper)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23
   
4. FAMILY/CHILD: Dr Tom FISHER: Mediative Techniques from the bench: Judicial Involvement in Separation Disputes (facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32
   
5. PRACTICE THEORY: Professor Thomas TRENCZEK: ADR under the Shadow under the (Criminal) Law (System) - The state of the art of victim-offender mediation in Germany and the danger of cooptation [Full paper - RTF format]
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30

(2 hours)

Choose one of the five options.

1. PRACTICE SKILLS: Deborah LANGE & Cath McMAHON: Facilitating systems thinking methods in complex conversations involving diverse views (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
   
2. CULTURE: Tim CLARKE:  Meaning and understanding in a multi-cultural world (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32
   
3. FAMILY/CHILD: Stephanie CHARLESWORTH: Changes to approaches to family and child mediation in Australia over the past 20 years – What have we learnt so far? (facilitated dialogue) [Full paper]
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30
   
4. WORKPLACE/FAMILY: 
   Joanne STAUGAS: Strategies for dispute prevention and management in commercial arrangements (1 hour facilitated dialogue)  
   with
   Professor Juan TAUSK: Business mediation in family enterprises (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
   
5. INDIGENOUS (AUSTRALIAN):
   Christine CHARLES, Brian DIXON, Sonia WATERS and Craig GREENE: Reconciliation – The Department for Human Services Journey (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
   with
   Dr Margaret CLARKE and Associate Professor Di BRETHERTON: Partnerships for Peace:  Keystone for Reconciliation (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23

KAURNA WELCOME: Aboriginal contemporary dances from the Port Youth Theatre

INTRODUCTION: Professor Denise BRADLEY, AO, Vice Chancellor, University of South Australia

OPENING ADDRESS:  Professor Lowitja O’DONOGHUE, AC, CBE

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Professor Kay SCHAFFER: Telling, witnessing, and responsibility: reconstituting the body politic

Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 2, Lecture Theatre BH2-09

(2 hours)

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2. CULTURE:  Joanna KALOWSKI: Mediating across cultures: reorienting values and attitudes (workshop)
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32

3. FAMILY/CHILD: 
Alan CAMPBELL: Reconciling the needs of children in parental divorce: Involving children in decisions that affect them (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
with
Donnie MARTIN et al:  Child and family participation in child protection decision-making conferences (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29

4. WORKPLACE: 
Associate Professor Ken RIGBY, Fiona UNDERWOOD: Bullying in schools and the workplace - International perspectives on the nature, prevalence and consequences of bullying (1 hour conversation)  
with
Rose BOUCAUT: Understanding issues relating to workplace bullying: policy development, implementation and barriers to reporting (30 minute paper)  
and
Sandy POLICANSKY: Workplace conflict resolution – Issues and dilemmas for practitioners (30 minute conversation) [full paper]
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23

5. CULTURE: Yuval KALISH: Mediating History: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict (1 hour)
with
Dr Antonius HERKUTANTO, Associate Professor Di BRETHERTON & Dr Tom FISHER - Bodies and bullets: Stretching the limits of ADR in Indonesia (1 hour)
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22

Bridging religious and cultural divides
(1 hour)

Brookman Hall, City East Campus, cnr North Terrace and Frome Road

(2 hours)

Choose one of the five options.

1. CULTURE (Repeat Keynote Workshop): Commissioner Jan Jung-Min SUNOO:  Cross-cultural mediation
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
   
2. WORKPLACE:  Dr Kathleen GILES: Dealing with our different work styles – Moving from aggravation to appreciation (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30
   
3. INDIGENOUS (AUSTRALIAN):  Lillian HOLT:  The role of humour in conflict resolution (conversation)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
   
4. PRACTICE SKILLS:  Debbie DUNN:  Narrative mediation – A story worth listening to? (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23
   
5. FAMILY/CHILD:
   Cheryl ABRAM:  ADR in the Care and Protection context (paper)  
   [full text, RTF format, 37 pages]
   with
   Dr Michael BELSKY: Mediation of post-adoption communication agreements in termination of parental rights cases: a contrast in mediation approaches (1 hour paper/ conversation)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32

Synopsis of a key aspect of mediation / conflict resolution in various countries in the region:  5 minutes with each panellist.

• Australia: David SYME, Director of Secretariat, National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council
  Paper by David Syme
• India: Ayan BHATTACHARYA, the Melton Foundation Conflict Resolution Group, Bangalore
• Indonesia: Wiwiek AWIATI: the use of mediation techniques for environmental conflicts in Indonesia
• Malaysia: Hughie (Yeak Hui) TAN, Barrister and ADR practitioner, Kuala Lumpur [synopsis]
• New Zealand: Ian MACDUFF, Faculty of Law, Victoria University, Wellington
• North America: Judge Hugh LANDERKIN, Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta, Family and Youth Division & Special Advisor to the Dean, Conflict Analysis and Management Programs, Royal Roads University
• Papua New Guinea: Justice Ambeng KANDAKASI, Judge of the Supreme and National Court of Justice of Papua New Guinea

• Singapore: Associate Professor Lim Lan YUAN, National University of Singapore
• Taiwan:  Associate Professor John (Chuan-Cheng) WU, I-Shou University, Taiwan
  
• The Philippine Islands: Reynaldo L. SUAREZ, Professor, Philippine Judicial Academy, and Dean, University of the East, College of Law
• Vietnam: YUNG LE, Project Officer, UNESCO, Vietnam

• West Papua: Jacob RUMBIAK

Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 2, Lecture Theatre BH2-09

(2 hours)

Choose one of the five options.

1. WORKPLACE (Keynote workshop):
   Shirli Kirschner: Designing conflict management systems
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
   
2. CULTURE:
   Associate Professor Di BRETHERTON: Conflict, Culture and Language (paper and facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32
   
3. INDIGENOUS (AUSTRALIAN):
   Craig JONES: Mending fences – the mediation of native title agreements between Pastoralists and Aboriginal Peoples (1 hour paper and dialogue)  [full paper]
   with
   Ms Diat ALFERINK et al: Young people, reconciliation. Our future (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23
   
4. ASIA PACIFIC PRACTICE:
   Jacob RUMBIAK and Harry WAINGGAI: The inspirational 12 year non-violent struggle for justice in West Papua (30 minutes) [Full paper]
   with
   Lim Lan YUAN: Development of a mediation culture in an oriental country - a case study of Singapore (30 minutes)
   and
   John (Chuan-Cheng) WU: The issues of Taiwanese industrial disputes: the resoltuion of the Keelong Transportation Case (30 minutes)
   and
   Dean Reynaldo L. SUAREZ: Mediation in the Philippine Islands (30 minutes)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
5. PRACTICE VALUES:
   Pat McINTYRE: Choice meets for vegetarians: a peace praxis? (conversation)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30

(1 hour)

Choose one of the five options.

1. ASIA/PACIFIC PRACTICE:
   Siew FANG LAW: Chinese language, culture and mediation (30 min paper).
   with
   Yung LE: Conflict resolution in the context of globalization. Preserving the intangible heritage of Vietnam (30 minute paper)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23
   
2. ASIA/PACIFIC PRACTICE:
   Wiwiek AWAITI: The use of mediation techniques for environmental conflicts in Indonesia (60 min paper)  
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
3. PRACTICE VALUES:
   Joy DE LEO: Dialogue between cultures based on universal values - UNESCO (30 minute dialogue) [full paper]
   with
   Jackie BORNSTEIN: The qualities of peacemakers (30 minute paper)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
   
4. FAMILY/CHILD
   Dale BAGSHAW: Culture and the disclosure of domestic violence in family law disputes (60 minute paper and dialogue) [ Full paper in RTF format - 26 pages ]
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30
   
5. PRACTICE THEORY:
   Associate Professor Rick SARRE: Alternative dispute resolution and non-adversarial regulation: why are they not mainstream and can they ever be? (30 minute paper)   [Full paper]   [Powerpoint presentation]
   with
   Pat MARSHALL: Designing dispute resolution systems in educational institutions (30 minute paper)   [full paper]
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32

with Tongan dancers, and Latin American band 

Novotel on Hindley Hotel
Hindley St 
Mezzanine Level

(2 hours)

Choose one of the five options.

1. CULTURE (repeat Keynote Workshop): Commissioner Jan Jung-Min SUNOO: Cross-cultural mediation
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-22
   
2. PRACTICE THEORY & VALUES:
   Kathryn VADURA, Giancarlo CHIRO & Dr Peter GALE: Bridging the gap: Human Security, the individual and the State (1 hour facilitated dialogue)  
   with
   Basil VARGHESE: Mediating the minefield of poverty and violence (1 hour facilitated dialogue)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30
   

3. ASIA PACIFIC PRACTICE:
   Kel DUMMETT: Developing an Australian foreign policy that supports non-violent solutions to problems in Melanesia, e.g. military violence in West Papua (one hour workshop) [full report]
   and
   Justice Ambeng KANDAKASI and Regina SAGU: ADR and AusAid's Papua New Guinea Legal Capacity Building Project (1 hour conversation)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29
   

4. INDIGENOUS (AUSTRALIAN):
   Dr Polly WALKER. Mending the web – conflict transformation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-32
   
5. INDIGENOUS (NZ): 
   Ian MacDUFF and Mereana HOND: Settling treaty claims in New Zealand: Are we resolving or creating disputes? (workshop)
   Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23

Poster sessions (continuing)
Yungondi Building, ground floor, atrium

Shirli KIRSCHNER: Summary of reports from Chairpersons (30 minutes)

Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 2, Lecture Theatre BH2-09

Sir Hans Heysen Building, Level 4, Lecture Theatre 4-08

Choose one of the four options – available at no cost to all registrants; also open to the public for $50 if spaces available.

Judge Hugh LANDERKIN & Professor Andrew PIRIE: Judicial dispute resolution 2001: a space odyssey or modern reality check? [ full paper (RTF) ]
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-23

Shirli Kirschner (repeat workshop): Designing conflict management systems
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-29

Michael WILLIS: Learning from each others' mediation successes
Barbara Hanrahan Building, Level 4, Room 4-30 [Notes on findings]