In the Balkans, Lane Arye, Ph.D. (together with Arlene Audergon, Ph.D.):

• co-led "Building Sustainable Community in the Aftermath of the War." This project (in Croatia) was funded by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and brought together Croats, Serbs, and Muslims to work on ethnic tension, reconciliation, democracy building, and human rights. Download article "Transforming Conflict into Community:
  Post-war Reconciliation in Croatia" Co-written with Arlene Audergon, Ph.D and published in Psychotherapy and Politics International 3(2)
  
  
• worked with professionals on issues of trauma and conflict in Kosovo
  
  
• trained professionals in conflict facilitation of ethnic tension in Macedonia (with Jean-Claude Audergon)
  
  
• worked with the organizational development of non-governmental organizations
  (NGO's - known in the USA as non-profit organizations)
  
  
• worked with inter-organizational conflict and communication (between NGO's, governmental organizations, international organizations, and local governmental authorities) throughout Croatia
  
  

In the rest of the world, Lane Arye, Ph.D. has worked with conflicts between:

• high-caste and low-caste Hindus from India
  
  
• Jews and Germans, Jews and Poles
  
  
• Russians and people from the former Soviet Block
  
  
• representatives of the so-called first and third worlds
  
  
• African Americans and European Americans
  
  

In the San Francisco Bay Area Lane Arye, Ph.D.:

• facilitated a conflict between Oakland's Mayor Jerry Brown and the Alice Arts Center
  (now the Malonga Casquelord Center for the Performing Arts)
  
  
• currently facilitates the Malonga Casquelord Center Working Group
  
  
• facilitated a staff retreat at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center
  
  

Lane has also worked with and taught about racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and class issues in the US and Europe. He has led trainings for activists (in Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area), and taught at all the Worldwork seminars organized by the Global Process Institute.

Lane lived and worked for over four years in Warsaw, Poland. During this time he taught process work and conflict facilitation throughout Eastern Europe.

©2002-2005 Lane Arye, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

Lane's work has been written about by Fred Guidry in [X]Press Online.

He wrote:

While most of us struggle to avoid being caught up in the conflicts that surround our daily life, Lane Arye, Ph.D. is happily immersed in the process of working with some of the greatest conflicts of our postmodern world. Oddly enough, laughter comes easily to this young man who routinely listens to people describe the horrors of war ...

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