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Date: December 1, 2011
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Registration: 5:30-6:00 PM, Program: 6:00-7:00 PM
Speaker(s):
Dr. Ani Kalayjian
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Forgiveness and Reconciliation breaks new ground as a volume that will enhance the work of social and peace psychologists, physicians, nurses, researchers in health care, intergroup and international relations, and peace and conflict studies. Highlights of the book are:
• Reconciliation efforts in Rwanda, Darfur, India, and Pakistan
• Restorative conferencing and its role in fostering forgiveness
• Lessons in empathy and repentance from lifers in prison
• Promoting reconciliation through arts and the media
• Potential for forgiveness despite revisionism, denial, and continued injustice
• Personal health and healing
• Reconciliation in the divided society
For more information, contact the Fellows Office at (212) 419-3608.
About the Speaker(s)
Dr. Ani Kalayjian is a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress, a psychology Professor, a Registered Nurse, a community organizer, humanitarian, international researcher and a Logotherapeutic Psychotherapist in private practice. She has been a UN representative for over 2 decades, holding a variety of leadership positions. Dr. Kalayjian is the founder and president of the Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention (ATOP) of Meaningfulworld.com, a not-for-profit charitable organization affiliated with the United Nations. She has organized and led humanitarian psychosocial missions around the globe in over 30 calamities both natural and human-made. She has received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from LIU, as well as the ANA Human Rights Award and the Teachers College Columbia University Outstanding Alumni of the year Award. She has been actively representing integrative health and trauma psychosocial recovery in media, newsprint, and radio.
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