Programme

Updated: 2007-06-11

Wednesday, June13	Place: Clarion Hotel Bryggen
19:00 – 20:00	Arrival and registration of symposium participants
20:00	Boat trip with midnight sun fishing
Thursday, June 14	Place: Auditorium A2 531 (5th floor), University Hospital North Norway
09:00 – 09:30	Welcome and opening remarks - Jarle Aarbakke, rector of the University of Tromsø - Toralf Hasvold, dean of the Faculty of Medicine	Solveig Wiesener, SIH
09:30 – 10:15	Presentation of the participants Expectations and fears	Nina Foss, SIH
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:30	Session 1: Health workers as agents for peace	Chair: Klaus Melf, SIH
	Keynote: Health workers as agents for peace - Ole D. Mjøs, professor in medical physiology at University of Tromsø, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee	30 min
	Paper: Psychotherapy and Peace - Dr. Kerstin Stellermann, senior registrar, University Hamburg-Eppendorf, Dep. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Germany, and Children for Tomorrow Foundation	10 min
	Paper: Teaching peace and health through health community service and student exchange programs - Zeina El-Chemali, director of Neuropsychiatry Group and of Neuropsychiatry Fellowship, dep. medical director of Div. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	10 min
	Discussion	10 min
11:30 – 11:45	Break
11:45 – 13:00	Session 2: Essential skills, knowledge and values in medical peace work	Chair: Kristin Scharffscher, UiS
	Keynote: What do you get when you mix health, peace and development? - Mike Rowson, Medical Peace Work textbook editor, London	30 min
	Paper: Need and content of Do No Harm trainings - Sam Engelstad, Do No Harm project associate, Boston, MA	10 min
	Paper: Peace qualities and deficits in health professionals - Neil Arya, family physician, adjunct prof. in Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, and associate prof. in Family Medicine at McMaster and the University of Western Ontario, Canada	15 min
	Discussion	20 min
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:15	Session 3: Peace-through-Health: Reflecting the McMaster experiences	Chair: Klaus Melf
	Roundtable presentation (by video conferencing) - Joanna Santa Barbara, child psychiatrist and associate prof., Faculty of Health Sciences and Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University, Canada - Graeme MacQueen, associate prof., Centre for Peace Studies - Avita Sooknanan, Stephanie Archer, Sarah Brownrigg and Jesleen Rana, students
	Discussion
15:15 – 15:45	Break
15:45 – 17:00	Session 4: Appropriate teaching methodologies: A question of effect	Chair: Vidar Vambheim, CPS
	Keynote: Student involvement and peer education in peace-health practice - Caecilie Buhmann, resident at University Hospital Copenhagen, and board member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Denmark	30 min
	Paper: Human Rights online - experiences with a web course for prison doctors - Bjørn Oscar Hoftvedt, director, Educational Department, Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo	10 min
	Paper: Peace education in disaster and war settings - Kremlin Wickramasinghe, scientific assistant, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka	10 min
	Discussion	25 min
18:00-20:00	Optional: Hiking to the mountain top (Meeting point: Hotel Clarion Bryggen)
19:00-20:00	Tromsø - an arctic summer experience (guided bus trip and cable car ride. Meeting point: Hotel Clarion Bryggen)
20:00-22:30	Conference dinner at panorama café “Fjellheisen”
23:30-24:00	Midnight sun concert at Arctic Cathedral
Friday, June 15	Place: Auditorium A2 531 (5th floor), University Hospital North Norway
09:00 – 10:15	Session 5: Linking peace and health in new research projects	Chair:  Vidar Vambheim
	Keynote: Research challenges and the Aid for Peace Approach - Luc Reychler, director, Center of Peace Research and Strategic Studies, University of Leuven; Secretary general of International Peace Research Association	30 min
	Paper: A peace-health-sensitive approach in international work - Stig Nymo, medical student, University of Tromsø, and Medical Peace Work project associate	10 min
	Paper: High-impact general medical journals and peace: a history of involvement - Sambunjak Dario, senior editor, Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb	10 min
	Discussion	25 min
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:45	Session 6: Challenges in establishing a new academic discipline	Chair: Sophie Martin, UCL
	Keynote: Lessons learned through Global Health - John Yudkin, prof. emerit. University College London
	Paper: Peace-health issues and academia - Klaus Melf, Medical Peace Work project coordinator, SIH
	Paper: When framing matters - peac