CONGRESS

For a millennium of peace: from the decade of nonviolence to the feasible Neotopia.

SPECIAL GUEST:

Johan Galtung (1930) sociologist and mathematician of norwegian origin he is considered the "father" of modern peace studies. Advisor of the UN and of different national governments and international institutions in conflict mediation.

WORKSHOP


The "nonviolence in medicine" research team of Neotopia project for nonviolence in professions will stage a trial to violence in medicine on the basis of the subsequent motion:

Is medicine violent today ?

The audience will finally vote as "popular jury"; all the event will be trenslated into the language of signs for the deaf.

CONCERT


"Concert for peace" by pianist Andrea Salvo. The concert will be offered by Neotopia to the public and will be held in the prestitious auditorium of the Teatini hall , lately restored to its original beauty. At the concert's opening the verdict delivered by the popular jury will be publicly announced..

PROGRAM DETAILS


After Galtung's conference and adequate question time a role play based on a trial to violence in medicine will be staged. The format is very succesful on the main international media and that's one of the reasons why we have adopted it; the other is that it appears an effective way to start a thorough debate on the critical issues about violence in contemporary medicine. Speakers will play the role of witnesses in the trial and they will be interrogated by a public prosecutor and by a defence lawyer about the motion: "Is medicine violent today?".
At the trial's end the audience will be asked to vote as a popular jury.
After a break for dinner, at 9.00 pm the verdict will be publicly announced, just before a Concert for Peace will take place in the splendid auditorium of the teatini hall.

As it is, both the public prosecutor, the defence lawyer and the witnesses will all be first class professionals in the care field and the goal of the role play is to outline some of the criticalities of today's medicine and health care professions. After the event of 10 October it will be the duty of the research team to deepen the inqury of the profession and in the end to suggest corrective means to bring nonviolent methodologies and approach into the field

The event, including Galtung's conference, will be translated into the language of Signs for the deaf.
Proceedings will be in Italian

"Cast of characters" .

• Presiding Judge: Giuseppe Miserotti, MD, president of the medical association of Piacenza;
• Deputy Judge: Johan Galtung (see Johan Galtung )
• Chancellor: Federico Fioretto, director of the Neotopia Project and coordinator of the "nonviolence in medicine" research team;
• Public prosecutor: prof. Piero P. Giorgi, PhD, adjunct professor Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane (AUS)
• Defence lawyer: prof. Fabrizio Micheli, MD, director UO medicina del dolore e cure palliative dell'AUSL di Piacenza;
  
  Witnesses:
• prof. Elisabetta Musi, professor of social pedagogy at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, coordinator of Master "Emozioni e sentimenti nelle professioni educative e di cura" in Piacenza seat;
• Simona Donegani, psicologist psychotherapist, associated at the study group "ethical issues in radiotherapy sperimentation", responsible at the Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori in Milano of the project "For a shared feeling: man and prostate cancer";
• Sophie Ott, MD, expert in psychoenergetic approach to illness (chinese medicine, universal medicine of doctor Butto, Theta Healing, biological decoding of illnesses etc)
• Alessandro Perra, scientific director of GUNA pharmaceutics, member of International Advisory Committee of project“Scientific proof for the efficacy of Homeopathy” and founding member of Intenational Workshop on Physiological Regulating Medicine (PRM);
• Filippo Celaschi, director of Staff department and UO Controllo di gestione Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale Piacenza