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Common Bond Institute, Wahat Al Salaam/Neve Shalom,
People's Peace Fund, International Humanistic Psychology Association

2011 PMP Full Program

We wish to honor and thank his year's presenters who recognized the importance of this initiative and have stepped forward to help facilitate this important public forum. Presenters have gathered from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to provide valuable skills, promote an engaged, inclusive dialogue, and help co-create possible remedies for bridging the divide.

(In Order of Appearance in the Program)

Thursday, July 21

PMP CONFERENCE OPENING and EVENTS 
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Greetings, Conference Mission, and Announcements:

Steve Olweean
is founding Director of Common Bond Institute, co-founder and President of International Humanistic Psychology Association (IHPA), past President of Association for Humanistic Psychology, and therapist with an MA in Clinical Psychology. Treatment focus is abuse recovery of victims and perpetrators, trauma recovery, and healing negative belief systems. He has written and presented internationally on concepts of The OTHER and dynamics of belief systems. Current writing projects are"Engaging The OTHER," and "Transgenerational Trauma: Communal Wounds and Victim Identities." Founder of Annual International Conference on "Engaging The Other;" Annual International Conference on Religion, Conflict, and Peace; Annual International Conference on Transforming Conflict; & Annual International Conference on Practical Models for Peace. Co-founder of International Conference on Conflict Resolution. He is 2011 Recipient of the Charlotte and Karl Bühler Award from the American Psychological Association for outstanding contribution to Humanistic Psychology internationally, and has been recognized for his life long work in a chapter devoted to his role with CBI in the "The New Humanitarians."
Email: SOlweean@aol.com    Web:  www.cbiworld.org   

Ahmad Hijazi,
is Director of the School for Peace at Wahat al Salam~Neve Shalom, the "Oasis of Peace" He has 25 years of experience of facilitating a dialogue between groups in conflict working with Israeli and Palestinian groups, as well as groups around the world including South Africa, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, USA, Kosovo, Italy and more. He has taught in several universities in Israel and the United States. In recent years, he is the director of the internationally recognized conflict management program at School for Peace in the village of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam.
Email: ahmad@nswas.info   Web: www.nswas.com/

Sulaiman Khatib,
from Ramallah, Palestine, is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director with Gadi Kenny of People's Peace Fund, the first international Palestinian-Israeli fund for conciliation. Sulaiman spent over 10 years in Israeli jails from age of 14 following his active role to resist the Israeli occupation. Since early 2008 he has co-lead a grassroots dialog project called Wounded Xrossing Borders which is centered around people wounded in the Palestinian-Israeli-Arab conflict and belonging to the socio-political mainstreams of their societies.
Email: sulaiman.khatib@gmail.com  Web: www.peoplespeacefund.org

Keynote: Gershon Baskin
immigrated from the US to Israel in 1978, was the first Intern for Peace while living in the Palestinian-Israeli village Kafr Qara, was the first Israeli civil servant responsible for advancing Jewish-Arab relations in Israel during the time of Menechem Begin, founded and directed the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence affiliated with the Prime Minister's office and the Ministry of Education, and founded and co-directs IPCRI - Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. He served as outside advisor for the peace process to two Israeli Prime Ministers (Rabin and Barak). He is a Jerusalem Post Columnist since 2005 and hosts a talk show radio program on All for Peace Radio (107.2 FM Israel/Palestine). In 2011 he founded Palestine Power - a Palestinian renewable energy company working in the West Bank. He has won peace prizes from the President of Italy, the Turkish Foreign Policy Institute and the Israeli Histadrut Labor Federation. He has also won prizes for Middle East journalism from Search for Common Ground
Web: www.ipcri.org/IPCRI/Home.html  Email: Gershon@ipcri.org

Keynote: Jane Goodall,
In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is today Tanzania and bravely entered the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. She was equipped with nothing more than a notebook and a pair of binoculars. But with her unyielding patience and characteristic optimism, she won the trust of these initially shy creatures. She managed to open a window into their sometimes strange and often familiar-seeming lives. The public was fascinated and remains so to this day. Today, Jane’s work revolves around inspiring action on behalf of endangered species and encouraging people to do their part to make the world a better place for people, animals, and the environment we all share. In 2002 she was designated as United Nations Messenger of Peace. The Jane Goodall Institute works to protect the famous chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, but recognizes this can’t be accomplished without a comprehensive approach that addresses the needs of local people who are critical to chimpanzee survival. Likewise, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, which Jane started with a group of Tanzania students in 1991, is today the Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian youth program for young people from preschool through university with nearly 150,000 members in more than 120 countries.
Web: www.janegoodall.org/

~ Friday, October 28 ~

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS A
9:30 am- 11:00 am

A-1: 
Maha El-Taji Daghash
resides in Haifa, Israel. She completed her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies in January 2008 at the University of Washington in Seattle. Maha is a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator, and has co-lead the Israel-Palestine Compassionate Listening delegations with Leah Green between 2004 and 2008. She has facilitated compassionate listening workshops at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies from November 2004 until present. Maha is a grassroots activist on various community projects bringing Arabs and Jews together
Email: meltaji@yahoo.com
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A-2: 
Julia Chaitin
is a social psychologist, with an expertise in peace-building. She focuses on the long-term psychosocial impacts of the Holocaust and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and has published widely on these topics. Dr. Chaitin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Sapir College, and a member of "Other Voice" - a grassroots initiative from the Sderot/surrounding Gaza region that calls for a non-violent end to the conflict between Israel and Gaza
Email: jchaitin@urim.org.il

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS C
2:30 - 4:00 pm

C-1: 
Elad Vazana
was born in the southern development town of Ofakim. Elad is an artist, an educator, an experienced mediator and facilitator; he develops curricula for facilitation, initiates and facilitates social change. He has been involved in dialogue for many years. His extensive experience facilitating Israeli-Palestinian dialogue meetings for youth led him to be one of the managers of the Sulha Peace Project, where Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians meet and build mutual trust. Elad is currently working independently to promote peace-related activity and empower institutions and individuals working for social change.
Email: eladvazana@gmail.com
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C-2: 
Brigitte Anor
is the founder of the Photo Therapy Institute, Musrara -Jerusalem- Israel. Brigitte teaches in the Master's program at the Institute and at Tel Aviv University. She has led workshops in different places in Israel and in Europe. In her workshops Brigitte enables participants to experience the process of a contemplation of their life story, whilst working with personally meaningful photographs.
Email: anor1@netvision.net.il

 PLENARY  SESSION  D
4:15 - 6:00 pm

Irene Nasser
is Outreach Associate for Just Vision, a nonprofit organization that uses media and education to raise awareness of under-documented Palestinian and Israeli joint civilian efforts to resolve conflict nonviolently, and encourage civic participation in grassroots peacebuilding. She has training in facilitation, dialogue, program evaluation and assessment, trauma management and response, organizing, as well as program management, and has a degree from International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program at American Univ. Irene is the co-author of the forthcoming "Textbooks as a Vehicle for Segregation and Domination: State Efforts to Shape Palestinian Israeli's Identities as Citizens" in the Journal of Curriculum Studies (Vol. 40, 2008). A Palestinian from Israel, she has lived in the US and Israel and is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and English
Web: www.justvision.org and www.encounterpoint.com
Email: irene@justvision.org

Evening Social-Cultural Event
7:30 - 9:30 pm

Elad Vazana  (see C-1)

~ Saturday, October 29 ~

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS E
9:30 - 11:00 am

E-1: 
Sulaiman Khatib  (see Thursday night Opening)

David Shilo
(Dudu) from Aminadav (Jerusalem), Israel, a bereaved family member, a wounded 1973 war veteran, and an ex army-jail officer. His parents arrived to Israel from Iraq. In early 2008 he co-founded and is a leading participant in a grassroots dialog project called Wounded Xrossing Borders, which is centered around people wounded in the Palestinian-Israeli-Arab conflict and belonging to the socio-political mainstreams of their societies.
Email: david1951.s@gmail.com

Jamal Meqbel
Email: jmeqbel@yahoo.ca

Yafa Sulimani

With other members of Wounded Xrossing Borders
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E-2: 
Nava Sonnenschein
founded the School for Peace at Neve Shalom/ Wahat al Salam in 1979 and was its director for many years. She co-developed the working method of the SFP. During the years she developed the model of facilitator training courses and the model for university courses that the SFP conducts in four of the Universities in Israel. She has taught the subject in Tel Aviv University and in Hebrew University. She has trained hundreds of Jewish and Palestinian facilitators from Israel, Palestine and from other areas of conflict in the world to work with groups in conflict. She got her Ph.D. in 2006 from the Hebrew University, titled: Processes of Majority Group Identity Formation During a Jewish - Palestinian Encounter. Currently she is managing the change agents courses for professional groups.
Email: nava.sfp@nswas.info

Ahmad Hijazi  (see Thursday Evening Opening)
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E-3: 
Rina Kedem
Rina Kedem is one of the co- founders of EcoME Centre in Jericho/Almog junction. She is a project coordinator and developer and a peace worker focused on environmental cooperation between Arabs and Jews. She worked for the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies coordinating and managing Jewish Arab environmental youth initiatives in Israel, Palestine and Jordan. She promotes this issue through grass roots education and collaboration with policy makers. Rina has counseled troubled youth, trained and supervised teams of outdoor educators, developed curriculums, facilitated conflict resolution and coordinated various peace and educational workshops and projects in the States and the Middle East. Currently she is developing EcoME Centre, coordinating Israeli- Jordanian youth programs with the Arava and Dead Sea science Center, and studying for her Masters degree in International Development at the Hebrew university.
Email: rinakedem81@gmail.com

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS G
Afternoon  2:30 - 4:00 pm

G-1: 
Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi
is a professor of political science and international relations; founding director, American Studies Institute, Al-Quds University; founding director of the Wasatia Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine. He is a Jerusalem-born scholar and peace activist with two doctorate degrees (University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1981; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1984). He is chairman; Board of Directors, House of Water and Environment; member, Board of Directors, YMCA-West Jerusalem; founding director, Jerusalem Studies and Research Institute.
Email: mohddajani@gmail.com

Zeina Mounir Barakat
is a doctorate student at Ben Gurion University. She holds a Masters of Arts degree in American Studies from Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, and a Bachelor of Arts from Bethlehem University. She has researched written on dynamics of competing communal narratives, most specifically related to Israelis and Palestinians.
Email: zeinabarakat81@gmail.com
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G-2: 
Emma Sham-Ba Ayalon
is an artist, prayer facilitator, chaplain, therapist and a spiritual teacher. She is an author and illustrator of the book and the psalm cards "Haleli Nafshi". She facilitates annual ceremonies for Jews, Palestinians and Germans on the Holocaust memorial day. In the last 10 years she is one of the leaders of the "Peace Research Village in the Middle East", and carry with ancient and new knowledge about transformative social structures.
Email: emmashamba@gmail.com

Aida Shibli
is a global peace worker born in Palestine, she is committed to social and political change, through focusing on women empowerment and building new structures of life.Aida is skilled in mediating, conflict resolution, non violence communication, group facilitating and project management. She is an active member of various NGOS in Israel-Palestine, concentrating in integrating Palestinian women in the "political show," via knowing their civil rights and resisting the Israeli occupation by non violent means.She has worked as a nurse and medical researcher, she is also a mother of one child and invests in finding new ways of raising children.
Email: emmashamba@gmail.com

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS H
Afternoon  4:15 - 6:00 pm

Steve Olweean  (see Thursday Evening Opening)
Julia Chaitin   (see B1)
Zoughbi Zoughbi
Email: hope@alaslah.org

~ Sunday, October 30 ~

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS I
9:30 - 11:00 am

I-1: 
Gershon Baskin  (see Thursday night Opening)

Hanna Siniora
is co-CEO of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information and has served as Chairman of the Board of IPCRI from 1990 to 2004, and in 2005. He was editor and publisher of the Palestinian daily Arabic Newspaper "Al Fajr" from 1973 - 1993, in which time he established a weekly English version and initiated the "Jerusalem Times" as a continuation of "Al Fajr". He was the first official Palestinian representative from the occupied territories to meet Secretary of State George Schultz, was instrumental in gaining American recognition for the PLO at the end of the Reagan presidency. From 1985 - 1987 he served as a member of the joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation. He has been a member of the Palestinian National Council since 1990. In 2001 he was nominated by Palestinian President Arafat to serve as the PLO Ambassador in Washington, a position that he did not ultimately take. Hanna has founded and served on the board of many organizations including the European- Palestinian Chamber of Commerce, the Palestinian-American Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of East Jerusalem Development Corporation, and Chairman of Peace and Democracy Forum (PDF)
Email: Hanna@ipcri.org
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I-2: 
Zack Bluestone
is an entrepreneur, researcher, and peace advocate. In addition to serving as Vice President of his family's company, Bluestone founded and runs Evolving Education-a nonprofit that connects students around the world through videoconferencing. He has worked as a consultant at an Israeli foundation, and he also has experience in all three branches of the U.S. Government. Bluestone earned his MBA with a concentration in Social Entrepreneurship from the University of Oxford (thesis: "In Pursuit of Peace: Leveraging Economic Development as a 'Third Way' in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process"). He graduated magna sum laude with a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Email: zack.bluestone@gmail.com

DIALOGUE GROUP FACILITATORS
not listed above

Wasim Biroumi
is a group facilitator, M.A. in educational and clinical psychology, currently working at the Mental Health Care Center in Jaffa - Israel as a psychologist. He has facilitated dealogue groups for the last 12 years, including Israeli-Palestinian groups and international groups (Israeli-Palestinian-German-Irish).
Email: wasimbear@gmail.com

Guidelines For Compassionate Dialogue

The PMP Conference strives to promote an inclusive, compassionate dialogue that honors different personal experiences, perspectives, and narratives, while allowing for better expressing and listening to each other as we work together toward understanding and harmony. Our intention is to create an open venue where we can engage meaningfully and invite in a public dialogue that brings our joint wisdom to bear in exploring sometimes difficult issues that effect us all. This is based on the premise that it does not require that we be the same to be appreciate of, at peace with, and secure in our relationships with each other; only that we be familiar enough with each others story to share the humanity and trustworthiness that resides in each of us.
We ask all participants to assist us by carrying and expressing this intent throughout the conference.

NonViolent Communication Guidelines: (Adapted from Marshall Rosenberg)

Unique Assumptions—NVC begins by assuming that we are all compassionate by nature and that violent strategies—whether verbal or physical—are learned behaviors taught and supported by the prevailing culture. It also assumes that we all share the same, basic human needs, and that all actions are a strategy to meet one or more of these needs.

While NVC is much more than a communication model, the components below provide a structural concept of the process that leads to giving and receiving from the heart.

Honestly Expressing how I am and what I would like without using blame, criticism or demands

Empathically Receiving how another is and what he/she would like without hearing blame, criticism or demands  

Whether expressing or receiving, NVC focuses our attention on four pieces of information:

Observations—Objectively describing what is going on without using evaluation, moralistic judgment, interpretation or diagnosis
Feelings—Saying how you feel (emotions and body sensations) about what you have observed without assigning blame
Needs—The basic human needs that are or not being met and are the source of feelings
Requests—Clear request for actions that can meet needs

International Conference on
Practical Models For Peace:
Making a Difference Now

~ October 27-30, 2011 ~
Wahat Al Salaam/Neve Shalom, Israel

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