Europeace

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Europeace

• Serbia Montenegro
• Workshop
• PPP Presentation
• 16 20 October 2005
• Belgrade

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• HAIKU

ebb tide every footprint leaves another
moon Haiku by Marikay Eldridge
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The Slovakia Workshop

• Experiences
• NSD education initiatives for Roma community
• Cultural issues and constraints
• Roma teaching assistants
• Intolerable social conditions
• Violence of exclusion
• Violence of racism
• Internal violence within the Roma community
• Historical oppression

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Building on the Slovakia Workshop

• Developments colonialism, patriarchy,
  oppression, religion, nature versus nurture
  (becomes the nurture of nature) mental health
• Observation issues that have long been
  discussed and analysed but not progressed with
• Recommendations revisit above issues, adopt
  Reflexive Practice Anti Discriminatory
  Practices

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Influences

• Case Study The Roma how does everything we do
  apply to the Roma situation?
• Who else have we been influenced by? (see quotes,
  page 5, 6 7)
• Potential influences national authors from
  partner organisations
• How to act on these influences? How do these
  theories influence practice

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Influences (writers)

• Franz Fanon 1959
• By the time a century or two of exploitation
  has passed there comes about a veritable
  emaciation of the stock of national culture. It
  becomes a set of automatic habits, some
  traditions of dress and a few broken-down
  institutions. Little movement can be discerned in
  such remnants of culture there is no real
  creativity and no overflowing life. The poverty
  of the people, national oppression and the
  inhibition of culture are one and the same thing.
  After a century of colonial domination we find a
  culture which is rigid in the extreme, or rather
  what we find are the dregs of culture, its
  mineral strata. The withering away of the reality
  of the nation and the death-pangs of the national
  culture are linked to each other in mutual
  dependences. This is why it is of capital
  importance to follow the evolution of these
  relations during the struggle for national
  freedom. The negation of the native's culture,
  the contempt for any manifestation of culture
  whether active or emotional and the placing
  outside the pale of all specialised branches of
  organisation contribute to breed aggressive
  patterns of conduct in the native. But these
  patterns of conduct are of the reflexive type
  they are poorly differentiated, anarchic and
  ineffective. Colonial exploitation, poverty and
  endemic famine drive the native more and more to
  open, organised revolt. The necessity for an open
  and decisive breach is formed progressively and
  imperceptibly, and comes to be felt by the great
  majority of the people. Those tensions which
  hitherto were non-existent come into being.
  International events, the collapse of whole
  sections of colonial empires and the
  contradictions inherent in the colonial system
  strengthen and uphold the native's combativity
  while promoting and giving support to national
  consciousness

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Influences (writers) contd

• Mary Daly 1993
• In my analysis, racism is not exactly a
  variation of partriarchy. Rather I see
  patriarchy as the root and core of all forms of
  oppression, including racism, sexism, classism,
  speciesism. It would not be accurate to say that
  I develop gender as the central issue. I find
  this kind of language inadequate to describe the
  atrocities against women and all oppressed beings
  on this planet

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Influences (writers) contd

• Paolo Friere 1968
• Although oppression dehumanizes both parties and
  stifles their humanity, the oppressed has to lead
  the struggle for a fuller humanity for both. The
  oppressor, who is himself dehumanized because he
  dehumanizes others, tries to hang onto his power
  and dehumanizing practices. When the oppressed
  seek to regain and deepen their humanity, they
  must not in turn oppress the oppressors, but
  rather help to restore the humanity of both. The
  contradiction between the two classes is resolved
  by the appearance of a new kind of human being,
  one in the process of liberation. It's not
  possible to eliminate oppression just by a shift
  of roles in which the oppressor becomes the
  oppressed and vice-versa. In such change we can't
  say that one person liberates himself, or
  another, but that people in communion liberate
  each other.
• To alienate people from their own decision-making
  is to change them into objects. Any situation
  where some prevent others from engaging in
  inquiry is a form of violence.

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Influences (writers) contd

• Eidell Wasserman ( Understanding the Effects of
  Childhood Trauma on Brain Development in Native
  Children 2003)
• Chronically maltreated children with a diagnosis
  of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) show
  changes in major biological stress systems,
  including undesirable influences on brain
  development. A specific impact of stress and
  trauma on brain development involves the
  hippocampus, which is one of the parts of the
  limbic system, involved in memory and emotion.
  There is research evidence that people who have
  experienced chronic stress or trauma actually
  have a smaller hippocampus than those who have
  not experienced such trauma (Gilbertson, Shenton,
  Ciszewski, Kasai, Lasko, Orr, and Pitman, 2002).
• One of the most stressful events in an infant or
  childs life is separation from their primary
  caregiver (usually a parent).
• Children who lack early attachment opportunities
  have smaller brains and lower IQs. (Perry, 2002)
  The younger the child is when they experience
  this lack of attachment, the greater the damage.
  While American Indian children experience
  childhood traumas from abuse and neglect, they
  may also experience historical trauma and grief
  the result of hundreds of years of oppression and
  domination. There is currently no published
  research exploring the impact of historical
  trauma on brain development.

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Influences (writers) contd

• Quote from Drag King website
• All too often people set out to achieve equality
  without acknowledging that our society is founded
  on the oppression of women and that all men
  participate in this oppression, even unwittingly.
  Likewise we rarely admit that our society would
  not exist if not for a protracted, genocidal war
  against indigenous Americans, a crime which
  continues to this day, and which implicates us
  all. Or that the United States was built with the
  forced labor of generations of enslaved Africans
  and that we all must take responsibility for the
  continued oppression of Black Americans. We also
  can't ignore the way gender roles and sexuality
  have been shaped by the oppressive structures of
  our society. Homophobia has been a powerful
  psychological tool for enforcing conformity, as
  well as justifying the oppression of lesbians and
  gays.

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HAIKU

• a bitter rain
• two silences
• beneath
• the one umbrella
• Geoffrey Daniel

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Shaping the future of Europeace

• Directions a framework for practice with
  children who are either perpetrators of, or
  victims of, violence
• Valorisation how can the project continue to be
  effective after it ceases to be funded?
• Transformation how can we measure the
  effectiveness of our practice and transformation
  of oppressive/oppressed behaviour

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PROPOSED EUROPEACE FRAMEWORK
MULTI DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE
RESILIENCE
FUNDING
ANTI- DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE
TRAINING
ENVIRONMENT
ACCESSIBILITY BARRIERS
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Into New Projects

• ADP New European project. The emerging ADP has
  not, so far, been adopted in Europe.
• Proposal - research various aspects of AD theory
  eg Sociological, Anthropological, Psychological,
  Neuro-biological, Political, Economic etc.
• Integrate the various avenues of research into a
  European Anti-Discriminatory Practice module to
  be trialled across 15 countries. These are
  France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Estonia, Sweden,
  Hungary, Portugal, Belgium, Wales, Netherlands,
  Norway, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovakia, Bulgaria and
  UK.
• Exchange Training Sharing practice and methods
  in a formal way including secondments
  internship
• Long Distance Learning Modules
• Skills for a Caring Environment
• Approaches to the Person
• Group Dynamics
• Interpersonal Relating Helping
• Also
• Mentoring
• SMS European Citizenship

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HAIKU

• Reflected
• In the swords blade
• Soft summer clouds
• Garry Gay