Pé­ter Hunčík: Inter-eth­nic train­ing with psy­chodra­ma method

After ten years of work we can state, in ret­ro­spec­t, that the method of self-­­knowl­edge-­com­mu­ni­ca­tion-­con­flict res­o­lu­tion works well even in eth­ni­cal­ly and reli­gious­ly mixed group­s. There is a detail descrip­tion in the arti­cle about the using of the psy­chodra­ma in such train­ing work.

Dur­ing this peri­od mo­re than 1200 cit­i­zens of Slo­vak and Hun­gar­i­an nation­al­i­ty par­tic­i­pat­ed in these train­ings in Slo­va­ki­a. Anoth­er 500 par­tic­i­pants were Ro­ma ori­gin both from Slo­va­kia and Hun­ga­ry. In the arti­cle there is brief eval­u­a­tion about our train­ing activ­i­ties in Israel, Belorus and Uzbe­gis­tan. The major­i­ty of par­tic­i­pants in the train­ing were local opin­ion lead­er­s. Teach­ers and stu­dents com­prised the major­i­ty of par­tic­i­pants.
A year later most of the par­tic­i­pants report­ed pos­i­tive out­come as a result
of the train­ing. We believe that this kind of train­ing could have a domi­no effect and would con­tribute to reduc­ing con­flicts and poten­tial con­flicts between indi­vid­u­al­s, eth­nic groups and nations.