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BLIND TRUST celebrates the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Vamik Volkanis, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has spent a lifetime bringing enemy groups together for dialogue in traumatized regions of the globe. The film recounts Volkan's journey in unofficial diplomacy working in the Middle East, Estonia, the former Yugoslavia and the Republic of Georgia. The story dramatizes the new vocabulary he created for understanding large group psychology.
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00:06Human beings live in groups, large groups, ethnic groups, national groups, political groups, and so on.
00:15Large group means a group of people who share certain sentiments, culture, food, dances, nursery rhymes, and history.
00:32After a trauma, the original sufferers suffer, but then next generations continue the effects of this trauma sometime for generations
00:45to come.
00:47Vamek has written that if diplomacy is like a basketball game, then the historical traumas of a people are like
00:54a thousand bottles of olive oil poured on the court.
00:59This is a very personal history, I'm sure he's told you about it, but as a Turkish Cypriot growing up
01:04in an area that was war-torn and riven with strife between Turks and Greeks,
01:09he took it upon himself very early on to see what can be learned about these conflicts through looking at
01:16them through a psychoanalytic lens.
01:19When I got into international relations, I suddenly realized that identity is the key concept in international relations.
01:31You see that society develops an entitlement ideology. One day, I will get what I lost back.
01:42When I lost my schedule of a youngителя over the future to entitlement lawyer...
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