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How We Got Where We Are and Where Are We Heading?

Why is there domination throughout human history and manifests itself in nearly every single domain of human activities such as family, religion, education, workplace and politics?

Is it what we as human beings are destined for? What is the human nature? Are we cruel and aggressive by nature?

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How Change Happens? A Lesson from Feminists

We long for change but seldom ask ourselves how change happens and what we can do to make it happen

What can the Gender At Work analytical framework tell us about change?

What are social norms? When are they an obstacle and when are they a catalyst for change?

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What Makes Things Stuck? Inaction Explained

People chanted the slogan "Never Again" after WWII but crimes against humanity kept happening

Why are we so numbed and apathetic? How do social psychologists, sociologists and political scientists explain it?

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Practice: Retelling a New Story and Reconnecting to Life that We All Share

If there is a limit to empathy, how can we expand it in times of crisis?

Is there a way to regain power and balance even when the world is going crazy?

Joanna Macy, a veteran environmental activist and a Buddhist scholar, has developed group processes that she calls The Work That Reconnects, helping us face the mess without becoming crazy

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Taking Action: Violent or Nonviolent or Both?

Nonviolence has now been turned into an F-word and widely considered as politically useless. Is that true?

This session will explore some of its philosophical underpinnings and introduce some recent empirical studies into the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance

What are the factors contributing to the success and failure of a nonviolent resistance?

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Social Trauma and Social Transformation

There have been many discussions about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder since last year. Many of them are largely focused on personal symptoms and recovery, which in itself are very important

We will take a further step to look into the political implications of social trauma for victims as well as perpetrators and discuss why getting trauma-informed is crucial to social transformation

We will also explore what to do to respond to social trauma collectively

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Practice: Self-Care & Inner Resources

Activists often overstretch themselves out of their longings for freedom, justice and democracy. They might even think that sacrificing their own needs is what a "good, diligent and serious" activist "should" behave

Self-care is a topic that activists seldom think of and pay attention to. What types of self-care do they need? What benefits do they offer? What can mindfulness practice help?

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Reconciliation and Justice: Exploring Transitional Justice

One of the five demands is setting up an independent commission of inquiry which is tasked to dig up truth. It is widely believed that only truth can bring reconciliation and healing

In history, there are 40 more truth commissions and many of them are part of the plan that facilitates smoother political transition from a dictatorship to a democratic polity

What can we learn from these commissions? To what extent are they successful? Have they really brought reconciliation and healing? If we are to set up a truth commission, what considerations do we need to give?

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Sexual Violence: Exploring Restorative Justice

Retributive justice is only one kind of justice although it has been rather hegemonic

While it re-establishes moral equivalence between victims and perpetrators and reasserts social norms, it consistently fails to address the needs of victims, perpetrators and the community where crime happens

How does restorative justice look like in practice? Can it be applied to sexual violence?

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Collaboration and Feminist Leadership: Coming to Terms with Power

Real collaboration needs shared purpose and the capacity to address differences among which power difference is the most challenging

Are there new ways to think about power? How many types of power are there? What to do to make a shift from the mode of power over to power with?

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Alternative Organizing - Holacracy, Sociocracy and Deep Democracy +

Practice: Workshop on Convergent Facilitation

If power-over often takes the form of hierarchy which is ruled by the logic of command-and-control and competition, are there alternative ways of organizing which do not compromise efficiency and, above all, do not repeat the very domination system we are working to transcend?

This session will also introduce convergent facilitation, a decision-making process developed by Dr. Miki Kashtan, a feminist, sociologist, visionary and a nonviolent communication trainer

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Beyond Neoliberalism? Sharing Economy

In essence, an economy refers to ways to fulfill an array of basic needs for food, shelter, warmth and so on

Neoliberalism as an economic philosophy and a mode of practice believes that the market is the best way to get our needs met. However, it keeps failing 99% of human population

What are the alternatives? Is sharing or solidarity economy a possible future?

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