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TRANSFORMING ANGER AND HATE INTO LOVE -- Dr Anie Kalayjian

       As a child of survivor of the Ottoman Turkish Genocide of Armenians, I have been familiar with the atrocities planned and carried out from 1894 to 1915.  The collective pain and suffering of my nation of Armenia and the continued Turkish denial of its Genocide had initially left me feeling helpless, angry and in pain.  Some of this was transmitted generationally.  I was fortunate to have met and worked with Viktor Frankl, a Viennese Psychiatrist and philosopher and a Nazi concentration camp survivor.  His message to my feelings of helplessness and need to help survivors, and the Armenian community in general was: forgiveness.
For the last decade I have been challenged to deliver this message to my family and the larger Armenian community.  The journey has been a difficult but gratifying one.  This journey has helped me endure the pain and horror of being personally threatened in Istanbul, Turkey, when I attempted to present our research findings on the Genocide of the Armenians.
I was also challenged to share my experiences with my students, and with the world at large, through my lectures and written articles and research.  The journey is challenging, and we need to help one another to transform the suffering and pain to healing through meaning.  I found a particular meaning in forgiveness, and transforming anger into love. 
Elisabeth Lukas, a German Logotherapist, a student of Viktor Frankl and my mentor, was also instrumental in my journey.  Here is her poem in response to an enemy that I use as my guiding light:

IN RESPONSE TO AN ENEMY
ELISABETH LUKAS

THANK YOU, MY FRIEND.
YOU ATTACKED ME.
AND WITH THAT YOU GAVE ME
STRENGTH TO AWAKEN MY FORGIVING.

YOU WANTED TO BELITTLE ME
AND THE EFFECT WAS
THAT I WAS ABLE TO RAISE MYSELF
TO MY FULL HEIGHT.

YOU WANTED TO HURT ME.
AND WITH THAT YOU TAUGHT ME
TO ENDURE PAIN
BRAVELY AND WITH DIGNITY.

I THANK YOU, MY FRIEND.
YOU WANTED TO DESTROY ME,
AND WITH THAT YOU SHOWED ME
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE ESSENCE WITHIN ME.

For this holiday season, be mindeful of your feelings of anger, hate and helplessness and process them and transform them into love through forgiveness and meaning. 

Dear ICP Colleagues

    This is the 'Peace, International Relations and Human Rights Interest Group' Millennium Statement written for ICP by our interest group at the turn of the millennium. Our group believes this is a statement of veracity and truth in these troubled times in the world since the 11 September terrorist attack on America.

The International Council of Psychologists in the 21st Century

We, the people of the International Council of Psychologists, look back of  the 20th century with awe and also horror.

We look with awe at women's and men's scientific and technological achievements that have put men on the moon, that are lengthening human life expectancy everywhere, that can bring us visions within minutes of events that take place thousands of miles away, that enable some of us to communicate at lightening speed with others around the world, and to inform and be informed.

We look with horror at our inhumanity toward others, at war and massacres, at hate and honour killings, at abject poverty in a sea of plenty, at technological misadventure, at conflicts in which entire populations are chased from their ancient lands, at the ruthless destruction of our life-giving environment, at what could have been and was not. 

We recognise the neglect of the human spirit. 

We are determined to make this new millennium one in which our achievement of the 20th century will be used for all people to live better and to live in peace, free of want and of war.

To these ends we will work for the democratic promotion of peace education, for endangered people and children, for transforming self and society, for creating community dialogue, for 'remembering' people everywhere, for the strict adherence to its principles of human and cultural rights, and its spirit by living together in peace as good neighbours, by using our efforts to maintain international peace and security ensure that force shall not be used in settling human rights conflicts so the peoples voices are heard and the peoples needs are defended and met.

We take the occasion of the 58th Annual Convention of the International Council of Psychologists to propose specifically: 1. peace, security and disarmament; 2. eradication of poverty; 3. human rights; 4. sustainable development and the environment; 5. facing the challenge of globalisation: achieving equity, justice and diversity; 6. enabling health rights of all people.

    Please join us in doing what you can in your small corner of this world to promote peace within, peace between, and peace among. Our wish is for peace, health, and happiness across the world. If you wish to contribute to the 'Peace, International Relations and Human Rights Interest Group' Forum, at the ICP Convention in the Phillippines in 2001, please write back to me.

Yours sincerely, Dr Sandra Neil, ICP World Area Chair

Also in the same email I was informed that Betty Bishop is our new Continuing Education Coordinator.  Send your best wishes to both Dennis and Betty.

RE:  Ee-Li Hong, Co-editor of the International Psychologist

"First, Congratulations on the forthcoming birth of your baby; what a wonderful time. And as if that is not enough excitement, may I extend my best wishes for an early move to New Zealand and a happy future there. I fully understnad your inability to continue to edit the IP, but I hope you can continue to be active in ICP."....