[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] Ending The Wars, Making The Peace - TO LAUNCH A MEETING OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST (TRCME)

Thu Aug 9 17:23:15 CDT 2007

--- lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
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> From: "lieve snellings" <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 23:10:38 +0200
> Subject: [womeninblack] Ending The Wars,
> 	Making The Peace - TO LAUNCH A MEETING OF THE TRUTH
> AND
> 	RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
> (TRCME)
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Elahe Amani 
> 
> 
> Dear,
> 
> Have you seen this?  I received it through my
> mediation network.
> Peace,
> Elahe
> 
> PRESS RELEASE:
> 
> TO LAUNCH A MEETING OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
> COMMISSION FOR THE MIDDLE EAST (TRCME)
> WE INVITE ALL PEACE, EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL,
> MORAL, AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVIST GROUPS THROUGHOUT
> THE MIDDLE EAST TO BECOME PARTNERS OF THIS PROJECT
> 
> The Project will address several outstanding issues:
> 1. Resolving the Ongoing War And Conflict In Iraq
> and restoring order, prosperity, freedom, security
> and well-being to the long suffering people of Iraq
> 2. Afghanistan: how to stop the fighting and restore
> order, prosperity and justice throughout the country
> ?
> 3. Palestine: how to provide a decent quality of
> life for all Palestinians in their own autonomous
> country ?
> 4. Israel: how to secure the long term future of
> Israel living in peace and prosperity with her
> neighbors, free of all terrorist attacks ?
> 5. Lebanon: how to ensure the long term stability
> and prosperity of the country, living in peace
> internally and externally ?
> 6. Chechnya and the Caucuses region: how to resolve
> non-violently the civil wars and conflicts in the
> region ?
> 7. How to protect minority rights and the rights of
> religious and ethnic minorities throughout the
> Middle East region, from whatever background ?
> 
> It will provide a forum for discussion for all
> parties to come up with non-violent solutions to the
> problems of the region.
> It will address primarily the intellectual, moral,
> ethical and philosophical dilemmas which are
> preventing the discovery of non-violent solutions to
> the crises of the region. It is an interfaith,
> academic and philosophical initiative premised on
> the possibility of cultural harmony and coexistence,
> but open to the wider community. We hope that a
> launch meeting for this project will take place in
> Israel and Palestine in August 2008 but we seek to
> find partners to work with inside Iraq, Afghanistan
> and other Middle Eastern countries to organise local
> chapters of the overall TRCME.
> 
> 
> The launch meeting establishing the TRUTH AND
> RECONCILIATION COMMISSION FOR THE MIDDDLE EAST
> (TRCME)
> 
> Will take place at Galilee / Bethlehem
> August 6-12, 2008
> 
> 
> ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE SYMPOSIUM ON Ending The
> Wars, Making The Peace And announcing the formation
> of an ECOCOUNCIL OF THE MIDDLE EAST
> 
> This gathering is open to all whom have the long
> term interests of peacemaking in Israel and
> Palestine and throughout the Middle East, and
> particularly in finding a solution to the
> philosophical, cultural and religious aspects of the
> conflict. It is being held in both Israel and
> Palestine to make it possible for participants to
> come both from both sides of the dispute.
> 
> 
> The Sea of Galilee is a sacred place for Jews,
> Christian and Muslims, and Bethlehem is also an
> important spiritual centre for all sides. Among
> other participants we hope a number of Islamic
> scholars, Sufis, Rabbis, Kabbalists, Christian
> clergy, Christian mystics, Bahais, secularists and
> peace activists from both contemporary Israeli and
> Palestinian society as well as internationally will
> be in attendance.
> 
> 
> With the peace process in the Middle East having
> stalled for too long, having moved so far, it is the
> hope of this symposium to encourage a healthy debate
> between both Israeli and Palestinian peace thinkers,
> activists and spiritual leaders, so as to vision
> together a long future for both Israel and
> Palestine, and one which will be beyond the threat
> or fear of violence.
> 
> We also intend to launch at this gathering a new
> body, an Eco-Council for the Middle East which will
> serve as a forum for representation of all those
> interested in the ecology of the wider Middle East
> region: with global warming effecting our weather
> patterns, we have an increasing ecological
> responsibility to end our conflicts and feuds, and
> pursue ways of peace, justice and harmony.
> 
> 
> All those who have thought for the long term
> sustainability of The Middle East environment, who
> love and care for this magical and mysterious
> heartland of the world, and who have the protection
> of its people and its sacred places at heart, and /
> or who have specific news of peace and environmental
> issues and campaigns in their part of the world, are
> invited to attend or send representatives.
> 
> 
> Hosting the meeting is Dr. Thomas C. Daffern,
> Director of the International Institute of Peace
> Studies and Global Philosophy, founder of the Global
> Green University, and Convener of the Truth and
> Reconciliation Commission for Britain and Ireland
> (on whose work the new TRCME is being modeled)
> 
> We ask for your support and prayers for the success
> of this initiative, and to circulate and disseminate
> this call throughout all men and women of good will,
> with peace at their hearts, who wish to see a
> peaceful, just and compassionate solution to the
> outstanding problems of the Middle East region, in
> which all parties can feel they have “won”, without
> humiliation or abasement. We at IIPSGP firmly
> believe that with spiritual support and help, a
> lasting solution to the problems of the region can
> and will be accomplished, and that non-violence is
> the only way to ensure the lasting peace and
> prosperity of the region. We ask therefore that all
> groups currently engaging in jihad or violent
> struggle against “occupation forces” return to the
> work of the greater jihad, and that those allied
> forces currently in the region work towards
> returning to their own countries as soon as
> possible. We pray that peace and non-violence,
> reason and sanity, love and goodwill, replace the
> fear, terror and grief that have affected this
> beautiful part of the world for far too long.
> 
> If you are able to attend, or send a representative,
> or if you can help with the administrative work
> involved in establishing the new TRCME, or if you
> can help with funding, or prayer work, please
> contact:
> 
> The International Institute Of Peace Studies And
> Global Philosophy,
> Nr. Welshpool, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom, SY21
> OER, 
> Tel/Fax. 01938 820586 (m) 07951 600959 
> Email: iipsgp at educationaid.net 
> Website: www.educationaid.net  >
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