Ada is recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize
Dear Friends of IFLAC,
Peace Making is happening again and we need your support to work towards its success!
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and President Mahmoud Abbas are sitting down together once again with the assistance of the United States, in a new effort to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This time we cannot afford to let them fail.
The Peace Negotiations between Israel and Palestine have started and have this time a good chance of making Peace Happen.
The safety and survival of the people of Israel and Palestine are dependent upon reaching a just and reasonable solution to the conflict based on the “two-states for two-peoples formula”. Two-states for two-peoples is the only way to ensure that Palestinian people enjoy the benefits of freedom and democratic government to which they are entitled, and that Israelis be free and secure to live their lives safely, as is the rights of both peoples.
IFLAC- is hard at work supporting the negotiation process. On the 3rd of September, we sent the IFLAC PCTVI Project to Prime Minister Netanyahou and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as to President Obama. This is just the beginning; much more work remains to be done.
Before the present round of negotiations, negotiators on both sides requested IFLAC input on how to manage conflict resolution through Bridges of Culture, Recognition and Respect. We responded by forming a working group, to most effectively guide and urge the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to form a negotiating team on how to foster a culture of peace. We provided recommendations on combating incitement, reviewing curricula and textbooks in schools, and using state supported cultural institutions for fostering a culture of peace.
We also suggested that instead of building a Mosque near Ground Zero, to erect there a World Center for creating and propagating the Global Culture of Peace, built on the IFLAC PCTVI Model. Religion is just part of Culture, and cannot replace the whole of Culture, that includes: the customs, history, values, norms, literature, art, language and beliefs of a given people. The PCTVI can provide all these for all people, of all denominations and beliefs.
MAY THE NEW NEGOTIATIONS AND THE NEW YEAR BRING PEACE!
The Iflac Committee
IFLAC has just sent its 1000th Digest. I would like to congratulate
IFLAC Members and its founder Dr. Ada Aharoni on the success of this
effort to advocate peace through culture.
The IFLAC discussion forum posted more than 2500 messages in the past 3
years (yes, we just celebrated 3 years of the group). The IFLAC PAVE PEACE
association, now has more than 170 members distributed all over the globe.
This is a truly remarkable success. Many of those members are themselves
leaders of Peace Culture NGO's, who distribute our Digest to their own
members, so that our IFLAC Digest reaches many thousands of readers throughout
our global village.
We are all building and creating together the so needed global Culture of Peace!
BRAVO IFLAC!
Hany Eldeib
IFLAC Yahoo Discussion Group Moderator
1 MAY 2005
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