Workshops

Workshops I (Friday):

Workshop 1: Debate training part 1 by Abulhassan Al-Jaberi

With this workshop you will develop persuasive and analytical skills through training workshops, public speaking exercises, and competitive but friendly debates. Using various debating formats to discuss real and important subjects, from world politics to genetics, from ethical questions to national holidays while following the rules of competitive debating. Abulhassan Al-Jaberi is from the Erasmus Debating society.

Workshop 2: ‘Nuclear Weapons and Public Health’ by Victor W. Sidel, MD

Anti civilian actors by state and non state agents (war and terrorism).

Workshop 3: ‘Extreme groups and Kidnapping’ by Mustafa Ghanim

Mustafa Ghanim is the founder of the Palestinian student chapter, and at the moment he is working on the Resilience Project.
The workshop will start by general description of Kidnapping and its different types.
Then we will move to the type done by extreme groups(for political,religious and some times financial causes).
I will explain exactly how to evaluate your situation if you are at risk of being a victim.
Then the measures that you can do to exit this risk or reduce it.
Finally,what you,your family and government can do in case you are a victim.
These informations are from following such news in TV and newspapers.

Workshop 4: ‘Cold War’ by Kees Homan

During the Cold War a Dutch official made the slightly bemused remark that “the Dutch have no foreign policy; we have only NATO”.  The priority of NATO is simply the old rule at work that security interests usually prevail over other objectives. Dutch security policy was built exclusively on American strategic nuclear weapons to deter the use of violence by the Warsaw Pact states against western Europe. This was a low-cost solution for the Dutch, with a low chance of failing, because of the high risk for the USSR in case it should use violence.

Workshops II (Friday):

Workshop 1: Debate training part 2 by Abulhassan Al-Jaberi 

During this workshop you will practice the skills you learned in ” debate training part 1″ through debates concerning Nuclear weapons, Small arms and so on. With a final debate by the best debaters of the day at the end of the workshop.

Workshop 2: ‘Radicalisation’ by prof. Jean Tillie

Jean Tillie is professor of Electoral Politics at the Political Science department of the University of Amsterdam. He is also deputy director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the same university. His research focuses on the political integration of immigrants and multicultural democracy, (extreme-rightwing) voting behaviour and (muslim) radicalism.

Workshop 3: ‘Violent Conflict & Health’ by Caecilie Buhmann & Eva Holst

60-90 min workshop where the health effects of violent conflicts and the role of health workers in preventing conflict is discussed. Learn an easy way to pass on your knowledge to others and thereby create greater awareness of the health consequences of violent conflict.

Caecilie Buhmann is the European IPPNW-Vice-President.

Workshop 4: ‘Fighting nuclear weapons! How can we be more successful than our parents?’ by Dion van den Berg

During the ‘80s we had a big peace movement in Europe, which was strongly against nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, cruise missiles and Pershing projectiles were placed. After the INF-agreement of 1987 projectiles were dismantled or not placed at all in some countries. Untill now it is not clear whether this was because of the peace movement or because of the policy of Reagan and Thatcher. During this workshop, we will have a closer look at the way of conducting a campaign these days, and we will discuss how to improve campaigns in our time, in order to have more success. Dion van den Berg works at IKV.

Workshops III (Friday):

Workshop 1: ‘Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka’ by Sjors Beenker

Explaining a variety of civilian techniques reducing violence between Tamil tigers and Singhalese military in Trincomalee. After mr Beenker had been nutritionist a.o. with MsF in Southern Sudan and North Korea, lecturer at the University of Surinam and political lobbyist in Holland, 1 year of peace keeping was more sustainable?!

Workshop 2: Resillience Project

During this workshop a couple of students will discuss the projectproposal for an Israeli-Palestinian-European summer school in 2010 and create an European Organizing comittee, who will be in charge of funding the project. Click here to read more about the project.

Workshop 3: NWIP, by Katharina Bergmann, Henk Waßmann and Laura Grell

The Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project is an international students movement within the IPPNW. We will shortly present the project and give you the most important facts you should know about nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons policy. We will also give you some advice and ideas how to get active on a local and international level.

Workshop 4: ‘Young doctors in Healthcare’ by Suheir Khajuria

Suheir Khajuria is a young doctor, currently doing volunteer work at Johns Hopkins. Medical students will soon step out as health professionals and future leaders of the world. It is necessary for them to engage and inspire people with different attitudes and values, to support the campaign towards better health.This workshop will talk about blending our work, to provide good healthcare with the mission of achieving it through peaceful strategies. It will help see the broader picture and enhance our skills to demand a healthy and safer environment.

Workshops IV (Saturday):

Workshop 1: ‘Communication Training for Target X’ by Edward Koldewijn

Edward is an actor and coach, using haptotherapy. He is going to teach us how to communicate with the public during Targets and in general, in a way that people actually wánt to hear what we have to say. This training is not only useful for the targets, but also for our further careers as doctors and human beings. 

Workshop 2: ‘Human rights- a bit of theory and lots of cases and experiences!’ by Marieke van Koningsbruggen-Blokzijl & Elske Hoornenborg (two of the organisers of the 1999 IPPNW students’ meeting in The Hague)

Marieke van Koningsbruggen-Blokzijl is a medical doctor specialized in tropical medicine and at the moment training to become a general practitioner. During her studies she was for half a year in Zimbabwe, investigating the ideas of youth about reproductive health. Elske Hoornenborg is a medical doctor who is at the moment training to become specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases. During her studies she was for short periods in Sudan and Zambia, with respectively IFMSA and Doctors without Borders. In 2002 she worked with Doctors without Borders in refugee camps in the border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in a small bush hospital in Congo. In the period of 1997 untill 2003 they have been internationally active in IFMSA and IPPNW. In 1999 they organised the IPPNW international students’ meeting in the Hague, preceding the large Hague Appeal for Peace conference.  Until now they teach about human rights abusis and the role of medical doctors.

Workshop 3: ‘Project management’ by Rianne Schutter

Everyone will have to do with projects in his life, from arranging nice party for your friends to the organisation of a long standing project in health care or education. So it would be good to know where to start. How to set up a project from the beginning till a successfull event? Are you are teeming with ideas? Do you want to call attention for an important topic by organising an event or project?
Then this is a good training for you. In this training you’ll get an introduction into project management. What are the absolutely must haves for a project coordinator? What are the do’s and don’ts when setting up a new project? How to write a project proposal?
After this training you’ll be able to make plans and really start working on your great ideas. Stop keeping thinking about the problems, start the action!

Workshop 4: ‘Globalization & Health’ by Caecilie Buhmann & Eva Holst Globalisation has been described as  “…A stretching of social, political and economic activities across frontiers such that events, decisions and activities in one region of the world can come to have significance for individuals and communities in distant regions of the globe.” This affects many different aspects of health from health care services, to health worker migration, poverty, climate and violent conflicts. Come and discuss the interaction between globalisation and health and learn an easy way to pass your knowledge on the topic on to others. Caecilie Buhmann is the European IPPNW-Vice-President.