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• What does a child need for his or her development?
• What protection might children have, what resources, what risks do they face, what protective and nurturing factors are available?
• How do neglect, abuse and violence affect a child in the context of stress and deprivation, understanding and mastery, and the role of culture in interpreting experience?
• What language resources can children use to express their experience?
• How can mistreated children find a way to a wholesome life (therapy, companionship, integration, prevention of renewed victimization)?
• In what conditions are children living, and what are the consequences of individual maltreatment for the community and for society?
• What rights do children have and how can they be guaranteed?
• What kind of responsibility can and must society accept and how can relevant organizations function best?

Welt der Kinder promotes interpersonal exchanges and communications between people and organizations in this field so as to optimize its impact, bringing together experts from diverse cultures and disciplines and cross-linking organizations to further a common goal. This is accomplished through an annual symposium, information exchange, production of training aids, an Internet platform, publications and production of audio-visual material.

1. Childhood and Society I: "Interdisciplinary Research - Child-Oriented Social Policy Action" October 25-27, 2007: Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria

This world is characterized by relationships founded on deep mutual recognition. A world offering time for human encounters. A world whose inhabitants enjoy sufficient security of existence, in the judicious use of the resources of nature. People in families, institutions and societies working together and supporting each other. People who pass the insights gained in their lives, in their relationships and in their work on to future generations. Children growing up in an atmosphere of appreciation, amidst the wealth of cultures and the happy variety of human existence. A utopia or a viable reality?

The lives of many, all too many children today are characterized by deep suffering caused by trauma, neglect, poverty and ecological problems. For the first time we witness the growth of a generation whose life expectancy and quality will probably fall short of that of their parents. The participants to this Symposium know that we have to face this reality. But we are acting in the awareness and the hope that change is possible – if it is reasoned, if we succeed in creating a vision shared by a sufficient number of actors.

The Symposium should be a place where this common vision can be developed. What we want to achieve in an effort spanning the next three years is that the concerns of children are perceived and taken seriously in all social and cultural processes and in the world of economy too. Children must be recognized as already being rather than becoming, full-fledged individuals. Program:

• Childhood and Society
  • Franz Resch, Chairman, Deutsche Liga für das Kind; University Professor and Medical Director, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Heidelberg University
• The stage as a model of the social world
  • David Pountney, Director, Bregenz Festival
• The World at the Crossroads or Redesigning an interconnected world
  • Ervin László, Co-founder, Club of Rome; Co-founder, Club of Budapest; University Professor
• Creating the ability to understand oneself and others: Mentalization and emotion control
  • Stuart Twemlow
• Strengthening ties, studying the learning patterns of children, recognizing parents as partners
  • Margy Whalley, Board, International Society for Developmental Psychobiology
• The human brain as the basis of mental and social skills
  • Hilarion Petzold, University Professor and Chair for Psychology, Clinical Kinetotherapy and Psychomotility, Free University of Amsterdam; Scientific Director, Psychotraumatology and Supervision courses, Donau-Universität Krems; Director of Psychodrama, Moreno Institute, New York, New York; Co-founder and scientific director, European Academy for Psychosocial Well-Being
• The UN Children's Rights Convention – a universal normative theory of childhood
  • Volker Lenhart, Director, Pedagogical Seminar; University Professor, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg; Head, Research Institute for Comparative Educational Science; Honorary Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
• Sustainable socialization
  • Hilarion Petzold
• Polylog of core sciences: Sustainable socialization of children as viewed by different disciplines (panel)
  • Bogyi
  • Juul
  • Fischler
  • László
  • Lenhart
  • Meyer
  • Petzold
  • Pienaar
  • Pountney
  • Resch
  • Roth
  • Twemlow
  • Whalley
  • Jack Saul, Director,International Trauma Studies; Professor,Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USAProgram [ITSP]
  • Dan Bar On, David Lopatie Chair for Post-Holocaust Psychological Studies and Professor of Psychology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva; Co-Director, PRIME (Peace Research Institute in the Middle East), Israel; Chair, Center for Dialog between Populations in Conflict
• Global Marshall Plan – Ecosocial market economy - Childhood from a global point of view
  • Franz Fischler, Dr. rer. nat. oec, Chairman, Ecosocial Forum Austria
• Living partnership with children – how the South can teach the North
  • Jeroo Billimoria, Professor, Tata Institute of Social Science [TISS], Mumbai, India
• Social Entrepreneurship mit und für Kinder – Wissens- und Erfahrungstransfer (Social Entrepreneurship with and for children – Transfer of knowledge and experience)
  • Sunette Pienaar, Founder, Heartbeat, South Africa
• Global Marshall Plan – Ecosocial market economy - Childhood from a global point of view
  • Franz Fischler
• Living partnership with children – how the South can teach the North
  • Jeroo Billimoria
• Child and Youth Psychotherapy in a Societal Context; Paradigms within the Field; Cooperation with Related Fields
  Christoph Hackspiel
  • Franz Resch (discussant)
  • Gertrude Bogyi, University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Vienna, Austria (discussant)
• Bridges between Worlds: Childhood and Society as Seen through the Eyes of Social Policy and Economics
  • Christian Honold
  • Jeroo Billimoria (discussant)
  • Franz Fischler (discussant)
  • Ervin László (discussant)
• Children's Rights, Community Work and School
  • Volker Lenhart
  • Sunette Pienaar
  • Stuart Twemlow, Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Faculty, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Texas, USA
  • Sheila Melzak, Medical Foundation Caring for Victims of Torture Head of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, UK (chair)
• Sustainable Socialization in an Intercultural Context
  • Hilarion Petzold
  • Marlies Matt (chair)
• Expressive Arts & Social Change: Working with Large Groups in Conflict and Crisis Situations
  • Melinda A Meyer, MA, Director, Association of Therapists using Psychodrama and Bioenergetics; Co-founder and Director, Norwegian Center of Further Education for Expressive Arts Therapy, Norway
• Competent Children – Competent ParentsRelationships vs. Model Child-Rearing
  • Jesper Juul, Founder and Director Kempler Institute of Scandinavia, Odder
  • Sigi Kalb (chair)
• Involving Parents in their Children's Learning
  • Margy Whalley
  • Thomas Müller (chair)
• Emotional Health and Psychosocial Competence in School
  • Eva Unterweger
  • Jutta Fiegl (discussant)
  • Vera Zimprich (discussant)
• Competent children – competent parents: Relationship rather than standardized education
  • Jesper Juul

Official languages: German and English, with simultaneous interpretation.

(This material was kindly sent in by Carmen Feuchtner on 8 AUG 07.)