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
IDI is proud to host its third formal training module on 4-5 November 2019 in Vienna. Entitled Large Group Identity and Societal Conflict: Bringing a Psychological Understanding to Conflict Resolution, this training is offered for anyone interested in developing a psychological understanding of group conflict. More information and enrollment links may be found here.
The IDI issues its Report from the 16th Annual Meeting.