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Dear all my Friends
I miss you all
I am so sorry because long time i did not write
I was not home and i attended many meeting and seminar
I have nothing to say , just i am shocked about the fact and the coming future
I feel frustrated , i meet with…
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- My maternal grandparents lived in a village near Acco and in 1948 moved to the West Bank. His paternal grandparents moved in 1948 from a village near Haifa to the West Bank. Haganah invaded the villages and forced them to leave. The UN assured them that they would be able to return. My paternal grandfather lost four of his brothers and sisters in the fighting.
I attended the Arab American University in Jenin, which opened September 28 2000, the day the Second Intifada started. He was elected student leader in his first year and was responsible for organizing students' financial aid, scholarships from the PLO, Palestinian businessmen and companies. I also coordinated non violent demonstrations against the Israeli army as well as voluntary work in the Jenin refugee camp (education and theatre projects).
I met Arafat many times. The Israeli army besieged Arafat's Headquarters in April 2002. Mo'min devised a plan against the seige of Arafat's offices, which he communicated to Arafat through Jubril Alrojob. His idea was to invite Parliament members from all over the world, especially Europe, Israel and the US as well as all Palestinian university students to Arafat's headquarters. Mo'min started contacting European and Israeli M.P.s, who agreed to come. He organized 14 buses to take the students from all West Bank universities to Arafat's Headquarters in Ramallah. Around 50 politicians and over 1000 students converged on Ramallah 24th April 2003 but were stopped from entering the city by 300 Israeli soldiers positioned the on the outskirts. The foreign (Israeli, European and US) politicians were denied entry into the city.
They came directly to the my bus I was traveling in and arrested him after throwing me to the ground, blindfolding and kicking me in the head and back and tying my legs and arms together. They then threw me into the jeep and told me it was my "last day". I couldn't understand what I had done to be treated this way and during my activism never thought I ran such risks as I advocated only non-violent resistance. I was taken to the then new Ofar prison and thrown into a bare, cold cell with no blankets or bed. I was stripped of all his possessions and clothes, issued with prison uniform and deprived of food and drink. An investigator came to my cell the same day and accused me of being a dangerous terrorist. I was informed that as I was an intelligent and able, local politician, I would be killed unless I stopped my political activity. The investigator added that my advocacy of non-violent activism poised a particularly serious risk to Israel's reputation in the world. Meantime my family had no news of my whereabouts or condition.
I appeared several times in an Israeli military court: each time the security forces deferred my case to a later date as the Judge declared that I had not committed any crime. In the end I was sentenced to one and a half years for being a security risk. After twenty days I was transferred to another cell, inhabited by 35 people some of whom were Palestinians spying for Israel, as I found out later when I met the Palestinian militants whose identities these spies had assumed in order to gain information from him. my cell was a tent – very colds in the winter nights and unbearably hot in the summer, as well as being very dirty.
I passed my days and nights in the cold cell thinking about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and how to get beyond the impasse of each side wanting to eliminate the other. I wondered how Israeli university students would react if they knew about my story. I imagined that they protested against my punishment and demanded the chance to create a peaceful future together. From this moment he decided to be a peace activist and to work with my Israeli counterparts. In my mind (there were no writing implements) I started to plan what I would do when I left jail, i.e. to establish a non-governmental peace organization: "Palestinian Youth for Peace and Democracy". After my prison sentence, i established this movement which now has more than 500 members drawn from university faculty and students and school teachers. They liaise with Israeli peace organizations and meet on a regular basis. The main focus of the P.Y.P.D. is Peace education and is partnered with I.P.C.R.I, the Israel Palestine Centre for Research and Information.
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- I began my university studies in 2000, the year in which the Second Intifada started in Palestine. In that year a group of friends and I decided to work against the occupation in a non-violent way. Our aim was to end the strife and to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, living peacefully beside Israel.. We established an association called Palestinian Youth for Peace and I was elected its President. The Association was active in the American University and continued its work despite the bloody battle which took place in the refugee camp in Jenin in 2002. We were very disappointed when the peace process stopped but we were determined to work harder to stop the suffering on both sides and the bloodshed. We also looked and are still looking for partners among Israeli young people and students, to work with us as a team and to make our common voice heard against the war and occupation, ensuring a peace for our children and future generations.
We have been struggling for over 60 years with no result and I strongly believe that the time has come to review our policies and strategies to revolve this conflict.
The Palestinian Youth for Peace Association joined the IPCRI and Sulha organization in 2000. Since then I have participated in many of their workshops and conferences, in Turkey and the US as well as in Israel and Palestine. I have thus acquired considerable experience in peace building and liaison with other Palestinian and non-Palestinian groups.
I would now like to improve my peace building and conflict resolution skills by obtaining a sound theoretical base on which to build my practice. I would like to study for a Masters in Peace Studies to improve my effectiveness and then return to Palestine to put into practice what I have learned. I would be very grateful if you can help
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Palestine, Jordan , The USA , The EU
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Palestine
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Teacher & Researcher
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.ipcri.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.ipcri.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.ipcri.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Conflict Resolution, Conflict Mainstreaming, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Education, Gender, Humanitarian Relief, Refugees
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Capacity Building, Communication, Information Technology, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Israel / Palestine Conflict
Refugee's right to return homeland
Deep Democracy
Coexistence life together
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Dear all my Friends
I miss you all
I am so sorry because long time i did not write
I was not home and i attended many meeting and seminar
I have nothing to say , just i am shocked about the fact and the coming future
I feel frustrated , i meet with politicians from Israel and Palestine we talked frankly and deeply
They said there is no interest in Peace in both Government level
both of them looking to find excuses to give up and stopped meeting and negotiations
also they are tiring to to deceive… Continue
I miss you all
I am so sorry because long time i did not write
I was not home and i attended many meeting and seminar
I have nothing to say , just i am shocked about the fact and the coming future
I feel frustrated , i meet with politicians from Israel and Palestine we talked frankly and deeply
They said there is no interest in Peace in both Government level
both of them looking to find excuses to give up and stopped meeting and negotiations
also they are tiring to to deceive… Continue
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Events
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USAID, Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day, online collaboration event, that will bring together individual socially-engaged participants and organizations from around the world
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Nonviolence In The Context Of War Or Armed Conflict
June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 5, 2010 at 7pm – Kurve Wustrow
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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Training for Urban Planning Practitioners: Managing Conflicts and Urban Development in Multiethnic Communities
June 20, 2010 at 6pm to June 26, 2010 at 7pm – European Youth Center
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we need to raise Rs. 100,000 for establishing a Internet children's library. International Professors Project will provide the technical expertise. Any help is welcome.
2010 MDG Development Project Management Institute in Monterey and Washington DC at Monterey, California or Washington, D.C.
May 24, 2010 at 9am to June 18, 2010 at 5pm
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It is a welcome development.It's worthy to say that violence against women is increasing especially in the area of inheritance rights as it is common in my State-Akwa Ibom of Nigeria where women are not allow to inherit properties from their parents…
It is my desire to have a training opportunities that goes with scholarship,this will enhance my capacity building towards development work in my Country.
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Great to see you on here and hear from you, it sounds like the Global Majority program went well...although it is disturbing to read your (honest) assessment of the political will (or lack thereof) in the region.
Well, step by step, eventually we will have peace and justice, of that I am sure.
I wish you all the best my friend, and hope to see you in Palestine next year!
Take care,
Nick