IDI board member Lord John Alderdice discusses how his upbringing in Northern Ireland led him to train as a psychotherapist and how that training then informed his approach to politics and political philosophy. Listen here.
For Goodness Sake As COVID-19 sweeps across the globe, threatening lives in every country without regard to race, wealth or politics, we see borders hardening and a further retrenchment into nationalism as self-defence becomes our paramount concern. On an international scale, xenophobia escalates with fingers pointed at the Chinese as the source of coronavirus. … Read More
IDI 17th ANNUAL MEETING Vienna, Austria – 1-3 November 2019 The Seventeenth Meeting of the International Dialogue Initiative (IDI) was held in Vienna, Austria from November 1 to November 3, 2019. The IDI was once again hosted by EUNEPA (Eurasian Nexus Partners GmbH), a strategic consulting group established in Vienna in 2010 by IDI member … Read More
Editor’s Note: After the 17th Meeting, IDI Board Member Edward R. Shapiro, M.D. circulated the following articulation of an IDI method of engagement. International conflict is marked by powerful feelings, often poorly understood, across cultural and ethnic boundaries. These feelings emerge around security concerns, economic needs, religious tensions and traumatic pasts and regularly lead to … Read More
On June 30, 2019, IDI President Gerard Fromm moderated a panel at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations in New York City. The theme of the overall conference was “Perspectives on Polarities: Thinking Below the Surface.” The panel’s theme was “Intractable International Conflict,” which was taken up by … Read More