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
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
On Monday, Dec. 5, following the 14th Annual Meeting of the International Dialogue Initiative, Drs. Vamik Volkan and Gerard Fromm made presentations to staff and students at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin, Germany. The only university of its kind to receive International Psychoanalytic Association approval, IPU’s program prepares students at Bachelor’s and Graduate levels … Read More
Vamik’s Room, a cinematic masterwork by psychoanalyst and filmmaker Dr. Molly Castelloe which examines IDI Founder Vamik Volkan’s central psychoanalytic ideas and theories on conflict resolution, has won the 2016 Gradiva Award for film. Congratulations to Dr. Castelloe and all involved in producing the film.
Journalist Katri Merikallio’s interview with IDI President Emeritus Vamik Volkan about his psychopolitical views of present world affairs appeared in the October 21, 2016 issue of the Finnish journal Suomen Kuvalehti. Interested readers may read the entire article (in Finnish) here: Suomen Kuvalehti.