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- Project: Contributing to a Culture of Peace, Reconciliation and Equal Rights
Project Partner: The Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation (CCRR)
Date & Place: April – November 2006, Bethlehem- Palestine
CCRR aims at helping to create a sense of ownership towards a culture of non-violence, reconciliation and equal rights through a network of 15 sheikhs who believe in the values of non-violence. They believe in the importance of raising awareness of capacities of peace within Islam. The project is designed to help raising awareness for the scale of inner-community violence (especially against women), overcoming the bad connotation the word “peace” has in the Palestinian society since the Oslo process, providing Palestinians with material support in religious discussions about the idea of non-violence, communicating an authentic and peaceful Islam within Palestine and the international community, and preparing the ground for future activities, including possible exchange programs, in which Palestinian sheikhs will internationally campaign for the idea and the values of non-violence. CCRR will hold 20 facilitated meetings with the sheikhs, which will include the production of an illustrated book on parts of the Quran concerning non-violence. The book will feature high quality photographs of Muslim holy sites in Palestine, thereby visually connecting icons of Palestine with the non-violent aspects of the Quran. Working with the media CCRR will create awareness of the project. A conference will be held to introduce the activities of the project and the book to the general public.
- Project: “Jerusalem Quarterly”
Project Partner: Institute of Jerusalem Studies
Date & Place: February – October 2006, Ramallah/West Bank
With this project the Institute of Jerusalem Studies aims at opening a platform for discussing historical and political issues related to Jerusalem and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The project will support publishing four issues of Jerusalem Quarterly, a quarterly magazine that deals with issues related to the history, political status and future of Jerusalem. The magazine is distributed as a hard copy and online and its target group includes the political general public, researchers in Palestinian studies, researchers specialized in Jerusalem studies and politicians and decision makers.
- Project: Conference: UN Security Council and Global Challenges
Project Partner: Birzeit University, Department of Democracy and Human Rights
Date & Place: June 2006, Ramallah/West Bank
A group of young leadership, activists and academics from Germany, Uganda and Palestine met to discuss the role of UN Security Council. The conference which lasted five days took the form of Security Council simulation. It was a platform to discuss global challenges such as Iran nuclear project and Darfoure problem. The conference first day was a public meeting attended by academics, students in international politics and political activists. The following three days were a specialized conference for a smaller group of politically involved activists. The last two days were a closed session for a selected group of participants from previous days. Following the conference the groups will conduct a series of field visits to different cities of the West Bank.
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