Friday,
October
28
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A
Workshops
Morning 9:30 - 11:00
am
A 1:
"Introduction
to Compassionate Listening"
The practice of Compassionate Listening helps us awaken the
inner wisdom by listening and speaking from the heart even in the heat
of conflict. This workshop will introduce compassionate listening practice
and participants will be able to sample some of the exercises.
Maha El-Taji Daghash
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A 2:
"My
Story, Our Conflict: Using Personal Narratives In Peace Building"
We will explore the diverse and deep uses
of personal narratives in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Participants
will learn how to elicit and reflect on personal experiences, especially
in intergroup work, as a way to open up dialogue, making significant
joint peace building endeavors possible.
Julia Chaitin
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
B
Morning 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Facilitated
Dialogue Groups
Conference-wide break-out groups
(All participants self-select one of the concurrent dialogue groups)
These are daily focused sessions all participants engage
in guided by experienced facilitators. Dialogue groups are seen as the
engines of the conference essential to engaging and integrating formal
learning. Content from keynotes, workshops, and roundtables provide
stimulus and focus for this discourse woven throughout the days of the
program. They are intended for engaging in deep listening, sharing learning
and narratives, exploring concepts, processing the conference experience
and addressing issues, brainstorming practical applications, and networking.
The subject matter is determined by what participants of each group
bring up. Material emerging from these group discussions is also used
to inform future planning for our conferences.
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Lunch ~
12:45 - 2:30 pm
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
C
Workshops
Afternoon 2:30
- 4:00 pm
C 1:
"Life
Stories to Build Community"
Life
stories humanize "newcomers" and "others" in our
neighborhood. Hearing personal narratives of our diverse backgrounds
brings us closer together. Listening and being truly heard is one of
the great acts of welcoming and community building. This new quality
of communication awakens empathy and trust in the listener. It heals
the story teller. It dignifies both. In this experiential-learning workshop
activities and methods will be offered that make it possible for us
to find the common basis among all people, who ever they might be.
Elad Vazana
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C 2:
"Reflections
on Phototherapy in Times of Conflict in the Middle East"
Could the camera and photographic images be an effective tool to promote
interaction and dialogue between groups in conflict and help both sides
open their eyes and promote change? This session will illustrate these
possibilities by bringing a personal journey and examples from different
projects currently taking place in our region.
Brigitte Anor
Plenary
SESSION
D
Film
and Dialogue
Afternoon 4:15 - 6:00 pm
"Budrus"
Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about
a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah
& Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement
to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel's Separation
Barrier. Success eludes them until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam,
launches a women's contingent that quickly moves to the front lines.
Struggling side by side, father & daughter unleash an inspiring,
yet little-known, movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that
is still gaining ground today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling
this movement from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who
choose nonviolence to confront a threat.
While this film is about one Palestinian village, it tells a much bigger
story about what is possible in the Middle East. Ayed succeeded in doing
what many people believe to be impossible: he united feuding Palestinian
political groups, including Fatah and Hamas; he brought women to the
heart of the struggle by encouraging his daughter Iltezam's leadership;
& welcoming hundreds of Israelis to cross into Palestinian territory
for the first time & join this nonviolent effort. Many of the activists
who joined the villagers of Budrus are now continuing to support nonviolence
efforts in villages from Bil'in to Nabi Saleh to Sheikh Jarrah in East
Jerusalem.
Irene Nasser, Just Vision
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Dinner ~
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Evening
Social-Cultural Event
"An
Evening of Sharing Life Stories and Music"
Participants are invited to share a story from their life about
change, and in between musicians share their music. A relaxing evening
taking us deep into each other's life and emotions.
Elad Vazana
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Saturday,
October
29
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
E
Workshops
Morning 9:30 - 11:00 am
E-1:
"Experience
Wounded Xrossing Borders"
The members of Wounded Xrossing Borders will present personal stories
of change and transformation from difficult beginnings and conditions,
and share the process they have gone through and are still going through,
within themselves and between themselves.
Sulaiman Khatib, Dudu Shilo, Jamal Meqbel, Yafa Sulimani,
with other members of Wounded Xrossing Borders.
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E-2: "Dialogue
Challenging Identity"
This session addresses the question of majority - minority group relations
in the context of an on-going conflict, examining processes of identity
formation that the dominant or majority group undergoes in interaction
with the minority group during the course of a series of planned inter-group
encounter workshops (in the unique method developed by SFP). It focuses
on A) The Jewish group's de-humanization of the other as a resource
in the majority group's construction of their own identity & the
patterns in the struggle over who is more humane during a Jewish-Palestinian
encounter, & B) The sense of threat that the Jewish Israeli group
feels during the course of intensive encounters with the Palestinian
group. 4 different & interrelated components of threat are identified:
a permanent existential threat, the realistic threat from Palestinians;
the threat to Jewish hegemony in the State of Israel; & the threat
to the moral worth of the Jews' national identity. We describe each
component, how they interrelate, and explore the interrelations between
dehumanization, identity threat & power relations. The processes
of change occurring in the Israeli-Jewish group and the change undergone
by the Jewish participants during the dialogue are described.
Nava Sonnenschein, Ahmad Hijazi
____________________________________________
E-3: "EcoME
Centre"
The presentation will discuss the experience of EcoME Centre: A unique
home for peace, supporting social and environmental sustainability.
The session will include lessons learned from EcoME's first stage, challenges,
next phases, questions and an open discussion with participants.
Rina Kedema
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS
F
Morning 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
Facilitated
Dialogue Groups
Conference-wide break-out
groups
(All participants self-select one of the concurrent dialogue groups)
(* See full description in SESSION
B)
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Lunch ~
12:45 - 2:30 pm
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
G
Workshops
Afternoon 2:30
- 4:00 pm
G-1:
"WASATIA:
Engaging the Mainstream by Promoting Centrism and Moderation"
A presentation of the WASATIA program and how it is promoting its values
of peace and ideals of moderation within both the Palestinian and Israeli
communities. WASATIA is a peace program working to heal the conflict
between Israelis and Palestinians through religious understanding and
tolerance by seeking common values between the different faiths and
to expose how religion is misinterpreted to widen the gap among the
three Abrahamic religions. We will share the mutual challenges faced,
and explore possibilities for mutual support and strategic collaboration.
Mohamed Dajani, Zeina Barakat
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G-2:
"Peace
Research Village As A Model For New Culture"
How a small group can has a global effect? Sharing from the experience
of the last 8 years in Tamera community (Portugal), where Palestinians,
Israelis and Internationals live together, study and prepare themselves
for building a peace research village in the Middle East.
Emma Sham-Ba Ayalon, Aida Shibli
PLENARY
(All Conference) SESSION
H
Roundtable
Afternoon 4:15 - 6:00 pm
"Transgenerational
Trauma:
Communal Wounds and Victim Identities"
Transgenerational trauma is seen as an underlying and
potent fuel for the eruption of violence in the present and future,
and effects all societies. Understanding it's dynamics and implications,
and developing ways to effectively address it, are seen as essential
to healing and reconciliation within and between communities, establishing
compassionate local and global relations, and achieving sustainable
peace. This roundtable explores the dynamics of inherited, unresolved
communal trauma from one generation to the next, including historical
understandings, the development and perpetuation of communal victim
identities, implications for present and future relations between communities
- particularly war and violence, and the need to develop new models
and methodologies for healing and preventing communal trauma and it's
transfer into future generations.
Julia Chaitin, Zoughbi Zoughbi,
(others to be confirmed)
Moderator: Steve Olweean
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Dinner ~
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Evening
Social-Cultural Event
8:00 - 9:30 pm
Sunday,
October
30
CONCURRENT
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
I
Workshops
Morning 9:30 am - 11:00 am
I-1: "Israel/Palestine
Center for Research and Information"
IPCRI is a joint institution of Israelis and Palestinians dedicated
to the resolution of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict on the basis
of "two states for two peoples". IPCRI recognizes the rights
of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people to fulfill their national
interests within the framework of achieving national self-determination
within their own states and by establishing peaceful relations between
two democratic states living side-by-side. IPCRI is divided into 3 departments;
Environment, Public Media,and Research. Each is responsible for its
own projects and management with significant coordination between departments.
Gershon Baskin, Hanna Siniora
____________________________________________
I-2:
"Social
Entrepreneurship and Peace: Leveraging Economics as an Alternative Approach"
Social entrepreneurship (SE) focuses
on how business principles and market-oriented approaches can be used
to tackle the world's most entrenched problems. This workshop will focus
on how SE can be utilized as an alternative approach to peace. A case
study on the Arab-Israeli conflict will be presented, following which
participants will discuss how SE can be applied to their own areas of
interest.
Zack Bluestone
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Lunch ~
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
ALL-CONFERENCE
SESSION
J
FINAL
DIALOGUE GROUP
Afternoon 1:30
- 3:00 pm
The full conference community gathers for processing
the conference experience, brainstorming practical applications, action
planning, networking for beyond the conference, feedback, and recommendations
for developing the conference.
TC
CONFERENCE
CLOSING
3:15 - 4:30 pm
Final
community experience, affirmations
of positive action beyond the conference, reflection, insight,
transition, and farewell
Steve Olweean, Ahmad Hijazi
~
Farewell Dinner Party ~
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
(a final time to
break bread together)
FACILITATORS
and MEDIATORS
Maha
El-Taji Daghash
Nava Sonnenschein
Julia
Chaitin Ahmad
Hijazi
Steve
Olweean
Wasim Biroumi
Elad
Vazana
Tal Shai
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
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October 27-30, 2011 ~
Wahat
Al Salaam/Neve
Shalom,
Israel
2011 PMP Conference Information: