7th International Conference of Museums for Peace in Barcelona 2011

African Proverb:
„Until lions have their historians,
tales of the hunt shall always
glorify the hunters.“

Barcelona International Peace Center, Montjuïc Castle, 4-7 May 2011

The Role of Museums in the Transformation of a Culture of War & Violence to a Culture of Peace & Nonviolence

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (TENTATIVE)

DRAFT PROGRAMME (1/2/2011)

3 May 2011 (Tuesday) Only for Advisory and Executive Board Members
– 14.00 – 19.00 Working session of the Executive and Advisory Committee of the INMP (Hotel Catalonia, Barcelona Plaza)

(Tea Ceremony in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona 2010)

4 May 2011 (Wednesday)
– 8.30 Bus transfer from Hotel Catalonia Plaza to Montjuïc Castle
– 9.00 – 9.30 Registration
– 9.30 – 10.00 Welcome * Mayor of Barcelona (to be confirmed) * General Coordinator of the INMP (Peter van den Dungen)
– 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
– 10.30 – 12.30 Plenary Session 1: “5.000 Mayors for Peace, 5.000 Museums for Peace”
* Mayor of Barcelona (to be confirmed) * Mayor of Hiroshima (President of Mayors for Peace) (to be confirmed) * Mayor of Granollers (Vice president of Mayors for Peace) * Mayor of San Sebastian (to be confirmed) * Mayor of Caen (to be confirmed)
– 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch at the castle self-service restaurant – 14.00 – 15.00 Visit to the Montjuïc Castle
– 15.00 – 17.00 Plenary Session 2: “Possibilities for the Transformation of War Museums into Museums for Peace”

* Barcelona International Peace Resource Centre (Jordi Capdevila, Spain) * Imperial War Museum (England) (To be confirmed) * Uppsala Peace Museum (Sweden) (to be confirmed)
– 17.00 – 17.30 Coffee break
– 17.30 – 19.30 Round table with several NGO’s, organizations, universities working for Peace and Human Rights in Catalonia
– 20.00 – 21.30 Typical tapas dinner at the castle – 21.30 Bus transfer to the hotel
5 May 2011 (Thursday)
– 8.30 Bus transfer from Hotel Catalonia Plaza to Montjuïc Castle
– 9.00 – 11.00 Plenary Session 3: “Culture of Peace and Human Rights Education in Museums (educational departments)”
* (Alicia Cabezudo, Argentina) * Gernika Peace Museum (Iratxe Momoitio, Spain) * Educating for Peace and Human Rights: Peace Studies and Museum Studies (Joyce Apsel, U.S.A.) * Role of Peace Museum towards Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, Indian perspective (Balkrishna Kurvey, India)
– 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
– 11.30 – 13.00 Plenary Session 4: “Designing Museums for Peace and Human Rights” * International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (Roger Mayou, Switzerland) * Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Japan)
* Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Canada) – 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch at the castle self-service restaurant
– 14.00 – 16.00 Plenary Session 5: “Experiences with Designing and Exchanging Travelling Exhibitions”
* The Peace Museum (Julie Obermeyer, England) * Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Erik Somers, the Netherlands) * Ashley Woods (to be confirmed) * Cartooning for Peace (to be confirmed) * (Vittorio Pallotti, Italy)
– 16.00 – 16.15 Coffee break
– 16.15 – 17.15 Plenary Session 6: “Issues of Governance (including fundraising)” Roundtable discussion
* President of the Dayton International Peace Museum (Bill Shaw) (to be confirmed)
– 17.30 – 20.00 Bus excursion to Barcelona’s most important sites – 21.00 – 22.30 Dinner at “El Pueblo Español”
6 May 2011 (Friday)
– 8.30 Bus transfer from Hotel Catalonia Plaza to Montjuïc Castle
– 9.00 – 11.00 Plenary Session 7: “Presentation of New Museums for Peace or Renewal Projects”
* House of Peace, Palace of Aiete (Spain) * (Sikander Mehdi, Pakistan) * Envision Peace (USA) * Memorial de Caen (France) (to be confirmed)
– 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
– 11.30 – 12.30 Plenary Session 8: “Developing Regional Networks of Museums for Peace and Strengthening Cooperation among Museums for Peace”
* Asia Pacific Regional Network of Museums for Peace (Kazuyo Yamane, Japan) * Federation of International Human Rights Museums (England)
– 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch at the Castle self-service restaurant – 14.00 – 16.00 Paper presentations (possible parallel sessions) – 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
– 16.30 – 19.30 Plenary Session 9: “General Assembly” Conclusions and end of the conference

* Election process for members of Executive Board, Advisory Committee and General Coordinator

* Proposal for future conferences and meetings

– 20.00 Bus transfer to the hotel
7 May 2011 (Saturday) OPTIONAL, not included in the conference fee
Day excursion to Figueres (Dali Museum) and Girona. (More details soon)

MORE INFORMATION

INMP SECRETARIAT Nike Liscaljet Laan van Meerdervoort 70 2517 AN THE HAGUE THE NETHERLANDS secretariat@museumsforpeace.org 0031-70-3450202 www.museumsforpeace.org

The International Network of Museums for Peace Secretariat is now open at:
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
2517 AN The Hague
FAX & PHONE: 0031-70-3450202
Secretariat Administrator is Nike Liscaljet.
Secretariat(@)MuseumsforPeace.org

www.MuseumsforPeace.org

Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge – We tell the story

Hiroshima – Friedensmuseum – Peace Memorial Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOboxrrFkA