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LEADERSHIP FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE BUILDING
“Promoting Peace through Dialogue”
An International Conference with a Focus on the Palestine/Israel Conflict
1-3 August 2008
UNU-ILI Building, Amman, Jordan
Nonviolent approaches as espoused by Mahathma Gandhi and Martin Luther King have been powerful forces in resolving conflicts and effecting peaceful change and reconciliation. Yet this seems to have lost momentum in the latter part of the 20th century and at the beginning of this century. Instead we see a world of intolerance with little respect for diversity, complexity and nuance but a readiness to resort to violent means to resolve conflicts. The resolution of conflicts through nonviolent processes and subsequent peace building remains one of the foremost challenges of the 21st century. Perhaps the most challenging is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which many observers believe lies at the heart of the instability in the Middle East and beyond. Its complexity, characterized by severe divisions within the two countries, lack of resolve among the international community, exacerbated by religious zealotry, the case of refugees and the sacred historical status of Jerusalem. Yet there is enormous goodwill among both Israeli and Palestinian people for a resolution of the conflict by compromise and by peaceful means.
The United Nations University - International Leadership Institute, Global Majority and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation are jointly sponsoring this conference on Leadership, Conflict Resolution, Negotiation, Mediation and Peace Building with a particular focus on the long standing Arab-Israeli conflict. Local and international speakers will explore the core issues of the conflict with participants which will include young leaders from Jordan, the Middle East, Palestine, Israel and internationally.
FRIDAY AUGUST 1, 2008
17:00 Conference Registration
18:00 Conference Opening
Welcoming Remarks:
Jairam Reddy, UNU-ILI
Bill Monning, Global Majority
Anemie De Winter, Frederich Naumann Foundation
18:30 Musical Dance Performance by UNRWA Girls’ School
19:30 Dinner and Reception at UNU-ILI
SATURDAY AUGUST 2, 2008
9:00 – 10:30 Opening Keynote Addresses
Moderated by Jairam Reddy
His Excellency Salah Al-Deen Al-Basheer, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan
His Excellency Atallah Al Khairy, Palestinian Ambassador in Jordan
Honorable Consul General Jeannette Ndhlovu of South Africa
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 12:30 PANEL: Prospects for Peace: Possibilities and Challenges
Panelists:
Hassan Barari (Jordan)
Barak Ben- Zur (Israel)
Moshe Maoz (Israel)
Ziad Abu-Zayyad (Palestine)
Moderator: Rita Cameron Wedding (USA)
12:30– 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:30 PANEL: Conflicts in the Region: Current Dynamics and Future Scenarios
Panelists:
Albaqir Mukhtar (Sudan- Darfur)
Faten Ghosn (Lebanon)
Ahmad Jamil (Iraq)
Moderator: Lejla Mavris (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
15:30 – 17:30 Working Groups with Tea / Coffee
17:30 – 18:30 1st Plenary Discussion
19:00 Dinner at the restaurant Reem Al-Bawadi
SUNDAY AUGUST 3, 2008
9:00 – 10:15 PANEL: Reporting from Jordan on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Panelists:
Jamil Nimri (Jordan)
Mohammad Abu Rumman (Jordan)
Moderator: Ibtesam Al-Atiyat (Jordan)
10:15 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 PANEL: Role of Media in Conflict Resolution
Panelists:
Hillel Schenker (Israel)
Daoud Kuttab (Palestine)
Moderator: Nada Alkaraki (Jordan)
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 PANEL: Role of Civil Society in Promotion of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution in Israel and Palestine
Panelists:
Boatamo Mosupyoe (South Africa)
Paul Arthur (Northern Ireland)
Tatsushi Arai (Japan)
Bill Monning (USA)
Moderator: Cameron Hunter (USA)
15:00 – 16:30 Working Groups with Tea / Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 2nd Plenary Discussion
18:00 Press Conference and Closing of the Conference
18:30 Certificate Award Ceremony for the Students
Organizational Endorsements of the Conference:
Palestine-Israel Journal www.pij.org
OneVoice Movement www.onevoicemovement.org
AmmanNet www.ammannet.net
Interfaith Peace-Builders www.interfaithpeacebuilders.org
Resource Center for Nonviolence www.rcnv.org
Monterey Institute of International Studies www.miis.edu
Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information www.ipcri.org
Monterey College of Law www.montereylaw.edu
RockRose Institute www.rockroseinstitute.org
Middle East Peace Platform for Peacemakers www.mepeace.org