“Healing the Wounds of History” program conducted its first workshop for 2018 entitled “HWH Module 1: 2018”. Besides the regular module one which took place on the 16th , 17th, 18th of March in the silk Museum Bsous, HWH have trained a group of school counselors and health counselors from the Ministry of Education and…
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Dates: Thursday December 14 and Friday December 15, 2017 Location: UNESCO Beirut Office Under the Patronage of H.E. Dr. Marwan Hamadeh, the Minister of Education and Higher Education, the Teacher Education Research Group (TERG) organised the SDG4 Teacher Conference (Arab States) – Quality and Innovation in Teacher Professional Development: Issues and Challenges. TERG is a…
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The Power of Language, Small Shifts in Language, Big Shifts in Behavior by Alexandra Asseily Date: Saturday October 14, 2017 Time: 18:00- 19:30 Location: Beit Beirut The Role of Language in Peace Building Language is a potent force for positive change – from divisive authoritarian, bullying language to a cohesive, whole brain positive authority language.…
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Under the Patronage of the President of the Council of Ministers, His Excellency Mr. Saad Hariri, the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London (UCL), in collaboration with the Faculty of Health and Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Centre for Lebanese…
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The HWH Training Program Module 3, is the last part of 3 modules of training in Healing the Wounds of History. Date: November 17 till 19, 2017 Time: 09:00 am till 05:00 pm Location: Silk Museum, Bsous The objective is to create a community of change agents, field workers and practitioners, who, after appropriate…
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Talk by Professor Cathrine Brun- Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Location: Lebanese American University – Beirut Campus Humanitarianism in a Different Key? Principled Pragmatism for Long Term Refugee Crisis. Contemporary refugee movements have increased self-reflection among humanitarian actors operating in ‘non-traditional’ environments…
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Thursday November 30, 2017 Dr. Sarah El-Richani, CLS Visiting Fellow and Academic Visitor at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, convened the workshop “Communicating Contentious Politics” on 30 November, 2017 in Oxford. Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College, was at hand to warmly welcome participants to Oxford and give an…
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“Promoting Inclusive Society Through Empowering Youth” workshop was held on Thursday, August 16 and Monday, August 28, 2017 at the Unesco Beirut Office. The participants, who are graduate students in their early careers, were trained on the rights of the persons with disabilities (PWD’s), the concept of mainstreaming disability and the role of youth in it. In addition…
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Date: Thursday August 03 and Friday August 04, 2017 Location: Lebanese American University The Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University, the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, and the UCL Institute of Education hosted a two-day workshop on Community Researcher Training, Teacher Development and New Educational Technologies. This is the second of a series…
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In celebration of the Feast of the Annunciation in Lebanon, the only country in the world to have a joint Christian-Moslem national holiday, a meeting was held by the “Islamic-Christian Meeting around Our Lady Mary” and NGO “Healing the Wounds of History” on Sunday, 26 of March 2017, at The Garden of Forgiveness in Beirut.…
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Over the weekend of 24,25,26th March, 2017, with the facilitation of Alexandra Asseily, Psychotherapist and founder of Healing the Wounds of History and Mathew Pruen, Hoffman Institute Coach, a group of Syrian teachers, Lebanese coaches and healers, and a few who came specially from UK, gathered for another workshop of Healing the Wounds of History.…
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The challenges faced by Lebanon and the region are self-evident. Cycles of violence have played out repeatedly through the ages. All of this is well documented, but what is less obvious, is how the battles of the past can stay dormant within us from generation to generation, flaring up in moments of perceived threat. And…
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“Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity” is the workshop that was organized by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in collaboration with the Lebanese Association for History. The workshop was facilitated by Bassel Akar, Maha Shuayb, Jihane Francis, and Amira Al Hariri. For two full days, participants experimented with the disciplinary approach…
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The Centre for Lebanese Studies partnered with the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) to carry out research for the improvement of knowledge about life skills programs delivered in non-formal contexts to adolescent girls. As part of the wider research, CLS mapped ongoing life skills programs in Lebanon that target adolescent girls. The project was followed up by…
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The Case of History Education The Centre for Lebanese Studies conducted a regional study commissioned by the Arab Educational Information Network (Shamaa) entitled “Knowledge Production in Arab Countries: The Case of History Education.” This project included conducting descriptive and analytical studies and comparisons of articles published in Arabic educational periodicals, especially in comparison with international periodicals…
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The study commissioned by UNICEF, investigated the living conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The study investigated existing resources and opportunities (education, health, social and economic), and assessed the overall well-being of young Palestinian refugees both from Syria and originally residing in Lebanon, in 8 Palestinian camps across Lebanon. This assessment contributed to existing surveys, which…
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