Evolution of human rights, undue influence, and assistance to victims

FECRIS European Conference 2024 – Stuttgart

“30 Years of FECRIS”

Saturday, June 15, 2024, from 9:00am to 5:00pm

 

Interpretation: French/English/German

At

Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe-Airport

Filderbahnstrasse 2, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, 70771

 

Programme

André Frédéric, President of FECRIS, AVISO – Help for victims of sects/cults (Belgium)

Welcome

 

Danièle Muller-Tulli, President of Honor, ASDFI (Switzerland)

30 years of FECRIS

 

Mirijam Wiedemann, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Baden-Württemberg

Faith and human rights – a complex relationship in the context of governmental work (Germany)

 

Jean-Pierre Jougla, President of the FECRIS Scientific Committee (France)

Artificial intelligence and its potential use by cultic/sectarian organizations (questions-discussion)

 

Linda and Rod Dubrow-Marshall, by video conference, from the University of Salford (United Kingdom)

Transcript of talk: Evolution of understandings regarding undue influence in cults/sects and how this can inform recovery – Video

Donatien Le Vaillant, Head of MIVILUDES[1] (France)

Recent improvements of the victims’ rights of sectarian aberrations in France

 

Piotr Chrzczonowicz, PhD – assistant professor in the Chair of Human Rights, Department of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland)

Report of Anna Lobaczevska R.O.R.I.J.- Ruch obrony Rodziny i Jednostki  and Abuses of controversial religious, quasi- and non-religious movements against individuals and social structures in contemporary Poland. Do there exist legal instruments and practice enabling effective counteraction, assistance to victims and prophylaxis if they are needed?

Ulrike Schiesser, Managing Director, Federal Centre for Sectarian Affairs, (Austria)

Insights from a State-Run Agency on Raising Awareness and Helping People Affected by Coercive Control

 

Testimonies by former members of ex-members of a cult dissolved in 1990.

 

Luigi Corvaglia, psychologist, [2]CeSAP – (Italy)

Mind Games and green washing: the argumentative fallacies of cult apologists

 

Sonya Jougla, clinical psychologist, specialising in cultic/sectarian control and victimology. Co-founder of the University Diploma in “Cultic/Sectarian influence and the process of vulnerability”. Paris Descartes Faculty of Medicine (France)

Developments in victim support

 

Note: We add the text prepared for the occasion but not read as she was sick, by Sarah Pohl – Zebra BW, Graduate in pedagogy, systemic counsellor for couples and families (FFAK), HP for psychotherapy (Germany)

Advice on cults and conspiracy theories. neutrality as an opportunity to build bridges: the limits of freedom of opinion and belief and where neutrality ends

 

[1] Mission Interministérielle de Vigilance et de Lutte Contre les Dérives Sectaires

[2] Centro Studi Abusi Psicologici – ONLUS – Bari, Italia

s Bundesstelle für Sektenfragen,Vienna