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Andria Durney
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- Sydney, NSW
- Australia
- Homemaker, jobseeker, PhD student
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This is so fantastic!!! I am so happy for him! How brave to listen to his heart and soul and do what really matters to him. I hope that this example inspires other people. It is good also that the charities are microcredit schemes because I have hea…
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Tri-people's peace agreement between Muslims, Christians and Indigenous peoples in Philippines, 1996
Success of Joy Balazo's Young Ambassadors for Peace program globally, 1996 ongoing
Attempt to promote Joy's approach with Indigenous Australians, at the invitation of an Indigenous friend
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- BSc, Hons (majors Human geography and anthropology), Macqaurie University
Community Food Cooperative Coordinator, 3years
Mother and homemaker for 8 years!
PhD student - 1st year
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Philippines, especially Tampakan, Mindanao
Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, with Indigenous groups
Supportive interntional solidarity work for a range of other countries
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Australia
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Homemaker, jobseeker, PhD student
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Development, Environment, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Advocacy, Program Design, Research
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Indigenous peacebuilding through art: Hunter Region
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- Actively Aboriginal: Mythology as action research (hons thesis, major anthropology and human geography), Macquarie University, Australia, 1999.
"Industrial Ecology: an Australian case study" in Ayres and Ayres (eds) 2001, a Handbook of Industrial Ecology, Edward Elgar
Industrial Metabolism: Extended definition, possible instruments and an Australian case study, Science Centre of Berlin, Berlin
Community Empowerment Collective Newsletters 2 and 3, http:///www.scn.org/cmp/news3.doc (or ---news 2.doc)
Comment Wall (13 comments)
- At 6:53pm on March 1, 2010,
Rey Ty said…
- Andria: Glad to be connected with you, as you have deep commitment and concrete work for peace. Cheers, Rey
- At 5:31am on January 8, 2010,
Andrew Benson Greene said…
- Thanks for your warm comments about my poem Andria and hope we can communicate more to build peace in our world. peace, andrew
- At 5:00am on September 1, 2009,
Dr Elizabeth Mc Donnell said… - Thanks, Andria, for your comments. You too give me encouragment and hope. Starting on an unfamiliar path is very difficult especially when one feels like a lone soul on it -I do question myself at times and wonder if I am totally barking up the wrong tree!!
I have written what I call a working paper and an outline of some workshop ideas. It's a working paper as its purpose was to push me to consolidate and crystallise my thinking and to have something that I could share with others. I am not too worried about being academically correct or rigorous at this stage. That can come later if need be.
If you send me your email address, I can email it to you.
I am just started to take forward the material in this paper and try to place the discussion more explicilty in present day issues and concerns, particularly the European context. It's hard work getting this stuff out of my head - suppose that is the point of communicating to others!!
I'm also looking at sociodrama and psycodrama as I feel these disciplines have a great deal to offer to the field of conflict work. I am even considering taking a cert or diploma in one of them - yet more training and learning...never ends.....
Better get on with it.
Best wishes and look forward to hearing more of your work
Elizabeth
- At 12:16pm on August 19, 2009,
Dr Elizabeth Mc Donnell said…
- Dear Andria
Many thanks for your message. Your research work sounds very interesting.
I am not an 'arts' person as such - my original career was as a research biochemist! 10 years ago, I changed careers and now work in the areas of facilitation and mediation. For many years I have felt that arts, theatre, music and dance have so much to offer in areas where they do not often feature e.g group-work processes, conflict work. This I feel is particularly true of our so-called developed countries where the spoken and written word and analytical rational ways of knowing are given greater value than any other way of knowing and communicating. You touch on this aspect in your message to me.
On a number of occasions, I have felt hampered by approaches to mediation and groupwork that rely solely on the 'conscious', that which can be identified and spoken about. It is my belief that much of the interactions amongst people happen at levels beyond the conscious and that we need to find ways of working with these, but not necessarily understanding them.
Now at a 'change point' in my life, I am looking to work more explictly on conflict and peacebuilding - exploring approaches and processes, drawing from the knowledge and experience that already is there and looking to bring that wisdom together in different ways in differents contexts. All sounds very grand!! - I have learnt at least that grand words mean nothing without action. But then from little seeds, surprisingly plants can grow...
So keep in touch - we may have more to share
best
Elizabeth
- At 6:04am on March 5, 2009,
Alistair David Blair Cook said… - I would probably recommend reading JP Lederach as a starting point and survey the bibliography section. I would also recommend signing up various email lists such as ACPACS at UQ (campus base in Melbourne), and then the UN Sport for development and peace program, as three different starting points. I hope this helps, if you are looking for something more specific then let me know and I'll see if I can help. Cheers.
- At 11:34am on March 1, 2009,
Hope Clark said…
- Hi Andria,
I just left a message on a blog that you commented on. Not exactly sure how this network works, if you'll get that message, but I responded to your interest in art and peace building.
I am curious about how you see visual anthropology (not sure what that is) and peace building contributing to indigenous capacity.
best,
Hope
- At 1:03pm on January 31, 2009,
Craig Zelizer said… - Thanks. I did my dissertation on the role of arts and peacebuilding. You can see a list of most of my publications on my bio page at GU and find a link to an article I wrote on the subject. Also see the article I wrote for communityarts.net (you can find it I think on this site or GU).
There are many great sites on peacebuilding, see www.usip.org, www.international-alert.org, www.crinfo.org
- At 10:22am on December 27, 2008,
Craig Zelizer said…
- Thanks. Glad to hear you found the scholarship materials useful, feel free to add other suggestions. Where will you be studying?
- At 10:41pm on November 20, 2008,
Sudha Raman said… - Yes Andria, just do not close the options. Maybe destiny is opening avenues in ways unravelled. And yes do convey my regards to your husband from India and wish him all the best.
- At 4:27am on November 20, 2008,
Sudha Raman said…
- There is a rainbow behind every cloudy picture. Time may not be right for your destiny to move towards Ph.D. But do not give up. This is the best time to take the challenge, apply for the scholarships and make a dent. Go ahead Andria. You have your family, your friends and the strength given to you by the Lord.
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