Saturday, February 26, 2011

Seminar on Peace and Conflict Studies

It went well, alhamdulillah.We had great fun over the 2 days.Our homegrown scholars were so erudite and funny.The four keynotes were absolutely fantastic.Prof Dan Christie's coolness was so cool that he got all of us gawking at him and listening intently.Kawan I kata dia hensem.Haha.He's a well-known Peace Psychologist and when asked whether peace psychologists (largely consulted in times of war or in preparation of war) contributed more to peace or conflict.Ta-ra...he said more to war.Mat Salleh is always transparent, kan? Kalau local politicians,mesti belit sana, belit sini.

The whole thing was conducted in an informal way (audience butting in whenever they liked..throwing in witty remarks, provocating the speakers etc)

It was a nice collaboration between CERDAS, Psy Dept and Political Science although many students came up to us and gave full credit to CERDAS.Hahaha..I had to correct them and said it was Psy/Pol Sci's project...we were just helping out (for the dough).They didn't want to believe.Gasaklah.. diehard fans ni...some were fans from my Alumni days :)

Anyway, another cheque has come in and we'll have a meeting with one of our clients on Monday on how to publicise one of the progs we do.MasyaAllah, Allah be praised.We didn't ask to be famous but we'll take it anyway. :))

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