The Fifteenth Meeting of the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI) was held in Vienna, Austria, from December 8 to December 10, 2017. The IDI was hosted by Atieh International GmbH, a strategic consulting group established in Vienna in 2010 by IDI member Bijan Khajehpour. This was the IDI’s first meeting in Vienna – the city of … Read More
A number of events in my personal and professional life played a significant role in my establishing the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI) in 2007. I was born to Turkish parents on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus when it was a British colony. During my childhood there, it was an anxious time for the adults around … Read More
Dr. Coline Covington, a longtime member of the International Dialogue Initiative, is scheduled to speak as part of a psychoanalytic discussion of populism on October 24, 2017 in New York City. The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, which is hosting the event, describes it as follows: The presenters will discuss the political dynamics of … Read More
From the personal website of IDI Vice President Lord John Alderdice: Why has this generation dropped the baton…..? On the long and winding road of the Northern Ireland Peace Process the most important lesson we learned was that such intractable, violent, political problems were a result of disturbed historic relationships between communities of people. The three … Read More
A new trailer for Vamik’s Room, the 2016 Gradiva Award-winning documentary from filmmaker Molly Castelloe, is now available for view here. The IDI sends congratulations to all involved in this important film.