"Dialogue in the Social Integration Process: Building peaceful social relations – by, for and with people"

 

AGENDA

Monday 21, November 2005

Morning session

9:00 a.m. Arrival and Registration

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:15 - 10:45 Introduction

Objectives, Expected outcomes, introduction of experts and ground rules

Brief history and working definition of social integration

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 Round Table discussion on Social Integration in a Changing World

-Global trends and social disintegration/integration

-Patterns of disintegration/integration (regional trends)

-Discussion: What is happening, what is missing?

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon session

14:00 - 15:45 Round table discussion on A Model Framework to Examine and Strengthen Social Relations: Multi-stakeholder Dialogues

Session I: Introduction of the SIP draft strategy: 1) Six stages of social relations: Fragmentation, Exclusion, Polarization, Co-existence, Collaboration, and Cohesion; 2) Stakeholders

 

-Questions and Answers

-Discussion: What can we do?

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 18:00 Session II: Role of civil society and multi-stakeholder dialogues: Communities, social groups, NGOs, researchers, national & local government, etc.

-Challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder dialogues

-Civil society facilitation:

-Psycho-cultural domain – Role of dialogue in re-building a community

-Socio-economic domain – Action research

-Socio-political domain – Democracy (election) and social integration

-Discussion: how to create a multi-stakeholder dialogue in the context of social integration and how to sustain it

Tuesday: 22 November 2005

Morning session

9:00- 9:30 Summary of the first day and introduction to Day 2

9:30-10:15 Case or Situation Analysis through the Social integration Lens: using multi-stakeholder dialogue as a social transformation tool

-Brief description of context (history & nature of conflict)

-Social integration steps and stakeholders (how it progress/regress within six stages of social relations, and who are the stakeholders?)

-Dialogue procedures (variety of tools) used

-Elements of interventions

-Positive and negative changes (Did it work? If yes, what are the contributing factors. If not, why? Identify 3- 5 reasons.)

- Guyana

- Tajikistan

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:50 Case or Situation Analysis: Continue

- Algeria

-Discussion

-Necessary elements for facilitating social integration

-What types of interventions are most effective, and when (at what stage of social relations) is best for such interventions

-Who are the stakeholders included, and who are not included but should be included?

-Role of facilitators and composition

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon session

14:00-15:00 Case or Situation Analysis: Continue

- Fiji

-Northern Ghana

- Northern Ireland

15:00 – 15:45 Discussion

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-18:00 Tool Box of approaches to Dialogue

-Brief description of approaches, methods and methodologies

-One or two example(2) of application

-Advantages and challenges

-How stakeholders sustain dialogue

-How to measure the impact

-Indigenous dialogue procedures

-Public Conversation Project

-Generative Dialogue Project

-Training as a Dialogue

-Sustained Dialogue

-Discussion (core elements of dialogue)

Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Morning session

9:00- 9:30 Summary of the second day and introduction to Day 3

9:30–12:00 Recommendations at Global, National, and Local levels and a way forward (in working groups)

-General recommendations at global level

-Specific policy recommendations at country level

-Practical recommendations for follow-up

12:00– 13:30 Presentation of the working groups, discussion, and adoption of recommendations

13:30–14:00 Conclusion and closing