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		<title>The road to conflict transformation in Lebanon by Vanessa Bassil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beirut &#8211; The recent violence between political parties – some of them affiliated with different religious sects – in Tripoli and Beirut has made headlines, and shows the degree to which political conflicts in Lebanon remain a potent social problem.&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/05/the-road-to-conflict-transformation-in-lebanon-by-vanessa-bassil/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beirut &#8211; The recent violence between political parties – some of them affiliated with different religious sects – in Tripoli and Beirut has made headlines, and shows the degree to which political conflicts in Lebanon remain a potent social problem. Lebanon is composed of 18 religious communities, and all too often, politicians use religion to keep people divided, and differences between different religious and political interests cause tensions.</p>
<p>Although political solutions are often what come to mind when discussing such issues, national conflicts cannot truly be resolved without knowing how to deal with conflicts on a personal scale first. This is the space that a dynamic group of Lebanese youth is working in, and seeking to change.</p>
<p>The Responsible and Active Youth project (RAY) gathered Lebanese youth from different regions and religions. The project provided a space where they could experiment with how to deal with conflicts while learning how to shift their thinking from seeing conflict as negative and destructive into a force with the potential to be positive and constructive.</p>
<p>Motivated youth have committed to volunteer with RAY for two years to develop a toolkit that contributes to creating the society they dream of: one based on tolerance and acceptance of the “other”. Aiming for a creative, youth-oriented and practical approach, they invented a board game called “Ta’o Nehke” (“Let’s talk”), which trains people to deal with conflict through scenarios and role play.</p>
<p>The youth went to four different communities in Lebanon to implement the project at schools, universities and clubs, working with the Lebanese Association for Education and Training (ALEF), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ).</p>
<p>The conflicts the game tackles are not political, but personal. Because political conflict is so sensitive, RAY’s approach focuses on personal conflict, which youth can apply to political conflicts later. The groups chose the scenarios that play out in the board game based on their own experiences in romantic relationships, with family dynamics, and in student-teacher conflicts.</p>
<p>Hassan, a Muslim participant, said: “In a sectarian, divided country like Lebanon, joining the RAY project is an action that goes against the norm. When it comes to such experiences . . . we have an obligation to share them with others”.</p>
<p>The so-called Rayans who implemented the project gained a new perspective on conflict through their engagement with their peers: conflict is natural, it should be understood in order to deal with it successfully, and it can be transformed through dialogue and negotiation.</p>
<p>Participants in the game practice this transformation when they arrive at squares labelled “negotiation” where they have to negotiate with another player on another side of the conflict scenario played out in the game. Youth who have participated in this exercise to date noticed how often they failed to take into consideration others’ concerns or to listen to them – and suggested that this was one of the reasons for the current conflicts in their own country. Now, however, they realise that they have the tools to correct this attitude.</p>
<p>For instance, while playing the game, Adriana, a Christian participant, learned to see things from different perspectives because, in each round, she had to articulate other players’ needs and how they were feeling about the conflict that was being addressed in the game. A “tips” square that she landed on helped her learn about others’ positions.</p>
<p>In one game, she played the role of a young male student who changed majors three times during university which led to a conflict with his father who was working abroad to pay his tuition fees. Adriana received a tip revealing that his father felt lonely, was working hard to support his family and felt like his son was taking his help for granted. Understanding his father’s feelings and reasons for opposing his son’s decisions, she concluded that everyone has reasons to think and feel the way he or she does – and so learned to approach the people with whom she is in conflict with empathy.</p>
<p>“Let’s talk” aims to change how players think about conflict, and thus how they deal with it. It is a message that deserves to be heard more widely in order to develop a society that is tolerant and respectful of all its members – regardless of religious or political affiliation.</p>
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		<title>The new face of Muslim American leadership by Hussein Rashid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York, New York &#8211; According to a recently released study about American religious membership, Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the United States. What many Americans may not realise is that as this group grows its&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/05/the-new-face-of-muslim-american-leadership-by-hussein-rashid/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>New York, New York &#8211; According to a recently released study about American religious membership, Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the United States. What many Americans may not realise is that as this group grows its religious leadership is also rapidly evolving.</p>
<p>When it comes to Jews and Christians, the congregational leader – the rabbi or priest – serves multiple roles. They are leaders of religious life, serving as congregational organisers and worship leaders. But unlike rabbis and priests in the United States, imams don’t tend to serve in pastoral care capacities such as visiting the sick and the elderly, counselling, and leading programmes for youth.</p>
<p>Muslim American religious leadership is mainly trained in the United States, focusing on religious scholarship, or in traditional institutions overseas – neither of which emphasise pastoral care. Nor are imams trained in reaching out to media, and mosques do not generally serve as community centres in the United States in the same way that churches and synagogues do.</p>
<p>But now the nature of religious leadership in the Muslim American community is changing. Imams are taking on wide-ranging roles involving pastoral care, and more work with youth.</p>
<p>Why is this happening? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that more imams are American-born. While there are no concrete statistics yet, several experts on Islam in America have noted this trend. But the key reason is that greater attention is being directed towards the needs of congregants, and almost two-thirds of America’s Muslims are born in the United States. Many of them view the pastoral role as an integral part of religious leadership. Muslim American young people expect engaged, hands-on clergy –and clergy, in turn, are answering the call.</p>
<p>Religious leaders must be able to speak in the language and culture of the people they represent. In America, that means tending to one of the most diverse Muslim populations in the world, especially as distinctions linked to ethnicity or sects within Islam become less and less important for the Muslim American community.</p>
<p>New York is a microcosm of some of these positive changes. Khalid Latif and Khalil Abdur-Rashid, chaplains of New York University and Columbia University respectively, are creating open spaces where all Muslims are welcome. Sunnis and Shias pray side-by-side, with the rainbow of different races present together.</p>
<p>The university setting also allows them to do community programming. For instance, many universities now have Ramadan “fast-a-thons”, in which students of all backgrounds are encouraged to donate the cost of one meal to charity. In many respects, Latif and Abdur-Rashid represent the future of what a Muslim American leadership will look like: open, community focused and trained to fulfil a wide variety of roles.</p>
<p>More importantly, they work with other individuals and institutions. While in the past Muslims have often been underrepresented in local community programs, this is also shifting. More imams are learning how to actively engage with the communities they live in. For example, in addition to serving the New York University community, Latif is also a chaplain with the New York City Police Department.</p>
<p>But encouraging imams to take on a wider communal role is only part of the story. What is needed – and what we are seeing more and more – is a variety of actors working together. Religious figures, academics, activists and organisers are collectively functioning as the emerging leadership of the Muslim American community.</p>
<p>By acknowledging the diffuse nature of the community’s leadership, it benefits everyone; they can do what they do best, and share the work with other individuals. At the same time, Muslim American imams are also embracing diversity within their own roles and changing the face of Islam in America.</p>
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		<title>Can Turkey inspire Egypt? by Mustafa Abdelhalim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cairo &#8211; Last week, Egyptians went to the polls to participate in the first presidential election since Mubarak&#8217;s downfall in February 2011. Going forward, the new president, who will be elected in the second phase of elections in June, should&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/05/can-turkey-inspire-egypt-by-mustafa-abdelhalim/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cairo &#8211; Last week, Egyptians went to the polls to participate in the first presidential election since Mubarak&#8217;s downfall in February 2011. Going forward, the new president, who will be elected in the second phase of elections in June, should look to examples from other countries that have undergone successful democratic transitions.</p>
<p>When asked what leader outside their own country they most admired, a recent poll from the University of Maryland found that 63 per cent of Egyptians answered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, indicating that Egyptians may be interested in learning from Turkey. Turkey can serve as a relevant model because it has successfully dealt with three key challenges facing Egypt – the relationship of the army to a civilian government, economic growth and fostering positive international relations.</p>
<p>In terms of the first of these issues, Egypt is currently struggling with what role the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) should play in the new government, and how much power it should hold. While the situations of Egypt and Turkey are different, Turkey provides a useful model when it comes to checking the army’s power through the rule of law, rather than violence.</p>
<p>Turkey’s ability to curtail the army’s influence has generally been judged to be a success. The army in Turkey appointed itself the guardian of Turkish secularism and has ousted four governments since 1960 when military leaders said that the government was failing to uphold secular values.</p>
<p>However, when a plot was disclosed that army generals were attempting to topple current Prime Minister Erdoğan’s government in 2008, everyone (including members of the army) was held accountable to the law. The police are investigating the case, detaining suspects, including army officials such as former Chief of General Staff General İlker Başbuğ, while the courts and Parliament monitor the process to ensure fairness.</p>
<p>Even in this time of transition, Egypt has demonstrated the importance of upholding the rule of law. The Administrative Court’s recent decision to suspend the newly formed constituent assembly because of the lack of diversity demonstrates that there are indeed checks and balances in Egypt’s system.</p>
<p>The country can build on this foundation going forward.</p>
<p>The second key challenge is the economy. Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), an Islamic political party, has managed to maintain power primarily through its economic policies, rather than religious ideology. Although the Reuters news agency calls it &laquo;&nbsp;Islamic-leaning&nbsp;&raquo; and media often focus on this aspect of its identity, AKP leaders insist that the party should be judged by policies and not ideology.</p>
<p>This approach has proved to be a recipe for economic development. Rather than focusing on creating an Islamic state – like the Al Nour party in Egypt, which calls for Islamic law to serve as the guiding principles for political, social and economic issues – AKP leaders’ main focus has been raising standards of living.</p>
<p>This interest is not altruistic, but based on practical political goals. The AKP is aware that people will only re-elect the party if it can prove its value. This decision will not be made based on religious arguments, but economic achievement. Turkey’s GDP grew 9 per cent in 2010, suggestive of this model’s success.</p>
<p>Egypt, whose GDP increased by approximately 1 per cent in the past year, can adopt the same attitude. Some leaders, such as Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Khairat el-Shater, have made strides in this direction by emphasising the need to increase private investment in development. What is needed now is to move past rhetoric and implement such proposals.</p>
<p>When it comes to the third challenge, fostering positive international relations, Egypt can learn by following Turkey’s lead on “middle ground” policies. Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe, but is also a leading member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, evidence of its “middle ground” policy between Europe and the Middle East.</p>
<p>Egypt is well-situated to take similar actions. Geographically, Egypt’s Suez Canal links Africa and Asia, making it ideally situated for exports. Egypt has the potential workforce for manufacturing, as one of the world’s youngest countries with two-thirds of its population under 30. Just as Turkey exports appliances to Europe, Egypt has enormous potential to reach African and Middle Eastern markets.</p>
<p>Egypt and Turkey share many things in common, and it would benefit Egypt to take the best lessons from its neighbour’s success story, creating its own.</p>
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		<title>Palestinian hunger strikes take non-violent struggle to a new level by Dawoud Abu Lebdeh</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerusalem &#8211; When Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan went on a hunger strike last December he started a new chapter in the Palestinian non-violent movement, which ended successfully two weeks ago when Israel agreed to several of the key demands made&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/05/palestinian-hunger-strikes-take-non-violent-struggle-to-a-new-level-by-dawoud-abu-lebdeh/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jerusalem &#8211; When Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan went on a hunger strike last December he started a new chapter in the Palestinian non-violent movement, which ended successfully two weeks ago when Israel agreed to several of the key demands made by Palestinian prisoners. Adnan’s 66-day strike ended in February after Israeli authorities agreed to release him in April. It was followed by hundreds of other prisoners who also went on hunger strikes in multiple Israeli prisons in a step that proved that non-violent actions on a large scale can be more effective than violence.</p>
<p>Hana Shalabi, the second hunger striker, persuaded prison authorities to release and deport her to the Gaza Strip. Then came Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, who went on strike for 76 days, breaking the earlier record of the Irish activist Bobby Sands, who died in a British prison after a hunger strike lasting 66 days.</p>
<p>In April, Diab and Halahleh were joined by some 1,600 Palestinian prisoners across Israel who fasted for 28 days, only ending their strike on 14 May once Israeli authorities made a fair compromise with their key demands, which included limitations on solitary confinement, the ability to study while in prison and visitation rights for prisoners from Gaza, including the right to physical contact with their families.</p>
<p>Open hunger strikes are among the peaceful popular resistance tools political prisoners use to demand the rights accorded to them by international conventions.</p>
<p>Once the strike was rolled out across the prisons it brought the hunger strikers’ cause to the attention of international circles, especially human rights organisations. Sit-ins in support of the striking prisoners were organised across campuses in Europe.</p>
<p>At the local level, including in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and inside Israel, the hunger strike found support from the Palestinian people, who pitched tents in city and village centres, and organised marches in support of the prisoners. Many of these marches headed for Ofer, one of the central prisons in the West Bank, where they were met with crowd dispersal measures like tear gas and rubber bullets, despite the fact that the demonstrators were completely peaceful.</p>
<p>The route of non-violence is an important one for the Palestinian leadership and its cause, building a Palestinian state. In the leadership’s view, the achievements of the Palestinian Authority’s state building project in bolstering the Palestinian economy and laying the infrastructure for the political institutions of a state would be harmed by a return to violence. Moreover, they understand that it would also damage the international public relations efforts that the Palestinians have been making in the past few years.</p>
<p>Other notable non-violent campaigns across the West Bank have also borne results. The village of Budrus, which struggled non-violently for years against plans to build the separation wall on its land, succeeded in influencing the Israeli authorities to change the route of the wall. Similar campaigns are taking place in other villages across the West Bank such as Ni&#8217;lin, Bil&#8217;in and Nabi Saleh.</p>
<p>The prisoners’ hunger strike, which unified prisoners from different political groups, has shown both the Palestinian people and the international community what can be achieved through a common cause using non-violence. Perhaps the most important lesson we can learn from the prisoners’ hunger strike is that a peaceful and non-violent struggle on a mass scale is arguably one of the most effective forms of resistance. It clearly demonstrated the need for an overall collective plan for the Palestinian people that would be acceptable to all parties and the need for the multiple factions within Palestinian society to work together to implement such a plan. It showed that the Palestinian people have to return to the streets and demand their right to a state through a non-violent popular struggle.</p>
<p>Jewish Israelis watching these developments should understand that these developments represent a profound shift within Palestinian society towards non-violence and see it as an opportunity. The non-violent struggle for a state of our own is a crucial step toward a two-state solution that will benefit both peoples.</p>
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		<title>A QUOI SERT LA RÉVOLUTION SI JE NE PEUX PAS DANSER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 10:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    GALA DE SOUTIEN AUX FEMMES DE PAYS EN RÉVOLUTION  Organisé par le LE  FONDS pour les FEMMES en MÉDITERRANÉE « A QUOI SERT LA RÉVOLUTION SI JE NE PEUX PAS DANSER ? » …marcher dans la rue le matin, midi,&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/05/gala-de-soutien-aux-femmes-de-pays-en-revolution/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
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<div>    GALA DE SOUTIEN AUX FEMMES DE PAYS EN RÉVOLUTION</div>
<p align="center"> Organisé par le</p>
<p align="center">LE  FONDS pour les FEMMES en MÉDITERRANÉE</p>
<p align="center">« A QUOI SERT LA RÉVOLUTION SI JE NE PEUX PAS DANSER ? »</p>
<p>…marcher dans la rue le matin, midi, soir… faire des enfants ou/et prendre la pilule… aimer qui je veux… étudier… porter des talons… manifester …  faire du théâtre… aller à l&#8217;école… fumer une cigarette… divorcer… chanter… <wbr> danser… danser…</wbr></p>
<p align="center">THÉÂTRE ÉDOUARD VII à Paris</p>
<p align="center">  Lundi 18 juin à 20 H</p>
<p align="center">Avec l&#8217;aimable soutien de Zana et Bernard Murat</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Tous les fonds collectés seront  reversés à des associations de femmes</p>
<p align="center"> dans les pays en révolution</p>
<p>Le Fonds pour femmes en Méditerrannée soutient actuellement 45 initiatives en faveur de leur émancipation dans 13 pays.</p>
<p>Sa mission est de participer à la progression du droit des femmes dans la région méditerranéenne en soutenant des projets innovants en ce sens et en favorisant l’engagement des nouvelles générations à cette cause.</p>
<p>Le FFMed est reconnu d’intêret général.</p>
<p>RESERVATIONS VITE, VITE !  auprès du théâtre  <a href="tel:01%2047%2042%2059%2092" target="_blank">01 47 42 59 92</a>  Ou  du FFMed  <a href="mailto:gala2012@medwomensfund.org?subject=%20R%C3%A9servation%20Gala" target="_blank">gala2012@medwomensfund.<wbr>or</wbr></a></p>
<p>Contact Presse : Fawzia Baba-Aissa  Tel : <a href="tel:06%2098%2083%2037%2075" target="_blank">06 98 83 37 75</a> ou <a href="tel:0951%2006%2040%2089" target="_blank">0951 06 40 89</a> Chargée  du développement et du mécénat www.<a href="http://medwomensfund.org/" target="_blank">medwomensfund.org</a> <a href="mailto:fbaba@medwomensfund.org" target="_blank"><wbr>fbaba@medwomensfund.org</wbr></a></p>
<p>Soirée présentée par Souâd Belhaddad</p>
<p>Avec la participation artistique à titre gracieux de : Isabelle Druet chant lyrique    Souad Massi et <wbr>Eric Fernandez world music  </wbr></p>
<p>Constance humour    Lamia <wbr>Safieddine chorégraphie   Chlo<wbr>é Lacan chanson française   Nuria Rovira-Salat &amp; le Finzi Mozaique Ensemble dan<wbr>se orientale   Cahina Bari conteu<wbr>se  Et en partenariat avec  Cartooning for Peace, des œuvres autour de la condition des femmes de dessinatrices et dessinateurs seront  présentés  </wbr></wbr></wbr></wbr></p>
<p>Cartooning for Peace Dessins pour la Paix » est une initiative née à New York le 16 octobre 2006 au Siège des Nations Unies grâce à Kofi Annan, prix Nobel de la Paix, et Plantu. Douze des plus célèbres dessinateurs de presse du monde entier se sont réunis pour débattre du rôle du dessin de presse et de la caricature comme moyen d&#8217;expression et de communication immédiat, sans barrière linguistique, au service de la tolérance et de la paix.</p>
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<p>Sous le marrainage et parrainage Laure Adler journaliste et productrice à France Culture, Elsa Boublil  journaliste à France Inter, Virginie Brac écrivaine et scénariste, Alya Cherif Chamari  avocate, directrice du collectif 95 Maghreb égalité, Souad Massi - chanteuse et auteure compositrice, Véroniqu<wbr>e Nahoum-Grappe  anthropologue, <wbr>Sabrina Ouazani comédienne, Plantu des<wbr>sinateur  Reine Sammut chef cuisinière, Fabienne Servan-Schreiber productrice de cinéma, Wassyla Tamzali avocate, écrivaine, Samar Yazbek journaliste et écrivaine.</wbr></wbr></wbr></p>
<p>Des nouvelles encourageantes !&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"> • SAVEZ-VOUS QU&#8217;EN EGYPTE, l&#8217;association HARRASMAP, fondée par 4 jeunes filles a lancé un concept innovant pour lutter contre le harcèlement sexuel qui concerne 90% des femmes de ce pays? Elles ont mis en place une cartographie en ligne et application par téléphone mobile qui permet aux victimes d&#8217;alerter les autorités par SMS et recevoir instantanément soutien et conseils. Et ça marche ! Ce concept est en voie de s&#8217;étendre de l&#8217;Inde au Brésil… Vive les femmes !</p>
<p>Le FFMed, fonds pour les Femmes en Méditerranée, a été le premier à soutenir ce projet audacieux</p>
<p>Pour en savoir plus sur cette initiative : <a href="http://www.medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_Egypte_2011_2.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_<wbr>Egypte_2011_2.html</wbr></wbr></a></p>
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<p>• SAVEZ-VOUS QU&#8217;EN TUNISIE, l&#8217;association ENGAGEMENT CITOYEN, a convaincu des hommes chefs d&#8217;entreprises de leur ouvrir les portes de leur société afin d&#8217;inciter des centaines de femmes à aller voter et s&#8217;engager dans la vie politique de leur pays. Et ça a marché ! Vive les hommes !</p>
<p>Le FFMEd a cru en cette initiative et l&#8217;a soutenue</p>
<p>Pour en savoir plus sur cette initiative  <a href="http://www.medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_Tunisie.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_<wbr>Tunisie.html</wbr></wbr></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>• SAVEZ-VOUS QU&#8217;AU MAROC, la fondation YTTO organise chaque année des caravanes de femmes, qui sillonnent les zones rurales, proposant visites médicales, initiant des femmes à la gestion financière, menant une campagne assidue contre les mariages précoces et forcés qui touchent de nombreuses filles.</p>
<p>Si tu ne viens pas aux droits des femmes, les droits pour l’égalité viendront à toi !</p>
<p>Le FFMed s’est enthousiasmé pour ce travail remarquable</p>
<p>Pour en savoir plus sur cette initiative  <a href="http://www.medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_Maroc.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>medwomensfund.org/fr/Projet_<wbr>Maroc.html</wbr></wbr></a></p>
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		<title>VIDEO: Juifs et Arabes en France, dépasser le conflit du Proche Orient Conférence</title>
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		<title>Liban: divisé par la guerre, unis par L&#8217;équipe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beyrouth &#8211; Le 13 Avril, 1975 la guerre civile du Liban a commencé et s&#8217;est poursuivi pendant 15 ans, l&#8217;instauration d&#8217;une «peur de l&#8217;autre&#160;&#187;, en particulier en ce qui concerne les différences religieuses et politiques. Maintenant, plus de trois décennies plus&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/04/liban-divise-par-la-guerre-unis-par-lequipe/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beyrouth &#8211; Le 13 Avril, 1975 la guerre civile du Liban a commencé et s&#8217;est poursuivi pendant 15 ans, l&#8217;instauration d&#8217;une «peur de l&#8217;autre&nbsp;&raquo;, en particulier en ce qui concerne les différences religieuses et politiques. Maintenant, plus de trois décennies plus tard, les jeunes Libanais sont de travailler pour changer cette réalité douloureuse à travers une série télévisée intitulée L&#8217;équipe.</p>
<p>Search for Common Ground (SFCG), un organisme voué à la promotion de solutions non-violentes aux conflits, est responsable de la série de 13 épisode dramatique qui a débuté le 14 Avril. Elle est diffusée au Liban à la frontière libano Broadcasting Corporation chaîne internationale (LBCI) samedi à 19 heures.</p>
<p>Le casting est composé de jeunes adolescentes &#8211; mâle et femelle &#8211; à partir de divers groupes confessionnels libanais. La série présente des idées aime accepter &laquo;&nbsp;l&#8217;autre&nbsp;&raquo;, la participation civique, la compréhension mutuelle, condamnant la violence et de la coopération. Selon un caractère sur le salon, la série est &laquo;&nbsp;une tentative pratique pour lutter contre l&#8217;intolérance sectaire à travers le sport&nbsp;&raquo;, et &laquo;&nbsp;crée un sentiment d&#8217;un terrain d&#8217;entente chez les jeunes&nbsp;&raquo;.</p>
<p>Dans le premier épisode, les téléspectateurs apprennent que Abdullah, un ancien officier, a perdu sa jambe à un conflit long de la Ligne verte au cours de la guerre civile. Après avoir été invité à un match de football militaire, il a l&#8217;idée de créer une équipe jeune qui aiderait l&#8217;unité d&#8217;accueil au lieu de la division au même endroit. Il décide de mettre sur pied un ballon de football [de football] équipe qui comprend les jeunes de quartiers de Beyrouth deux, Ain al-Rommaneh et Al-Sahyyah.</p>
<p>Ain Al-Rommaneh est un quartier à majorité chrétienne, et l&#8217;endroit où la guerre civile a commencé. Al-Shayyah, un quartier adjacent, est majoritairement musulmane. Pour des raisons symboliques, la série prend place sur la ligne de séparation entre les deux quartiers, la ligne verte, qui a divisé Beyrouth en est et l&#8217;ouest pendant 15 ans pendant la guerre civile. La lutte et la séparation résultant empêché les jeunes de ces quartiers de la compréhension les uns des autres, et donc d&#8217;être en mesure de développer une vision pour le pays dans son ensemble. Au lieu de cela, la séparation inculqué une culture de violence et de peur qui est toujours présent aujourd&#8217;hui.</p>
<p>Près d&#8217;un an avant que la série a été lancée, SFCG réunions tenues dans ses bureaux avec un certain nombre de jeunes pour parler d&#8217;un sentiment d&#8217;identité nationale, la responsabilité civique et le respect de «l&#8217;autre», et d&#8217;apprendre au sujet des droits de l&#8217;homme. Les jeunes participants ont ensuite été invités à se joindre à un groupe de discussion sur les idées clés que la série devrait véhiculent et les principaux problèmes rencontrés par la jeunesse libanaise. Je faisais partie de ce groupe.</p>
<p>Réunion après réunion, nous avons présenté, en tant que jeunes, nos idées et nos peurs. Nous avons remarqué que le sectarisme est clairement présent dans nos vies, ou plutôt qu&#8217;elle imprègne bon nombre des problèmes auxquels nous sommes confrontés, et qu&#8217;il est devenu un lourd fardeau qui ne peut être surmontée avec un effort concerté pour changer notre réalité d&#8217;un de la division à un fondée sur l&#8217;unité. Par conséquent, nous voulions L&#8217;équipe pour diffuser une culture de la paix, aider les personnes à voir des solutions aux problèmes et à cultiver une culture de la citoyenneté.</p>
<p>Dans le deuxième épisode, par exemple, Karaki, un membre de l&#8217;équipe musulmane, a un différend avec un coéquipier Christian. Mère Karaki de demande à son fils de s&#8217;excuser et de rétablir leur amitié. Dans le processus, elle développe une amitié improbable avec la mère de son coéquipier de son fils: «Vous êtes comme une sœur pour moi», elle raconte son. &nbsp;&raquo;Quoi qu&#8217;il en soit, quelle est la différence entre Al Ain et Al-Rommaneh-Shayyah? Rien. &nbsp;&raquo;</p>
<p>La série met en évidence les caractères qui surmontent de gros problèmes sur et hors du terrain de football afin d&#8217;atteindre des objectifs communs. Les épisodes en évidence les moyens de renforcer la compréhension et de commencer le processus d&#8217;acceptation de «l&#8217;autre». En somme, si les personnages ne jouent pas ensemble, ils ne peuvent pas atteindre leurs objectifs &#8211; à la fois de gagner dans le football et, par extension, pour réussir en tant que pays.</p>
<p>L&#8217;équipe travaille à promouvoir le sentiment d&#8217;appartenance parmi ses téléspectateurs libanais, indépendamment de leur identité confessionnelle ou politique. L&#8217;équipe est un microcosme de l&#8217;ensemble du Liban. Tout comme les joueurs ont besoin de travailler ensemble comme une équipe pour gagner, alors les gens doivent au Liban aussi fonctionner comme une équipe à surmonter la peur qui persiste de la guerre civile.</p>
<p># # #</p>
<p>* Firas Al-Dabbagh est un blogueur libanais et militant qui a contribué à des thèmes de design pour l&#8217;équipe avec un certain nombre de ses pairs. Vous pouvez regarder les épisodes de l&#8217;équipe sur theteamlb.com.</p>
<p>Source: Nouvelles commune de chaussée Service (CGNews), 24 Avril 2012, www.commongroundnews.org<br />
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		<title>Puis les Israéliens et les Palestiniens acceptent un divorce?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joseph Meidan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston &#8211; l&#8217;auteur israélien Amos Oz est né à Jérusalem en 1939, le fils de parents avec des racines en Lituanie et en Ukraine. Dans son roman autobiographique 2002, A Tale of Love and Darkness, son père se rappelle comment les&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/04/puis-les-israeliens-et-les-palestiniens-acceptent-un-divorce/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boston &#8211; l&#8217;auteur israélien Amos Oz est né à Jérusalem en 1939, le fils de parents avec des racines en Lituanie et en Ukraine. Dans son roman autobiographique 2002, A Tale of Love and Darkness, son père se rappelle comment les murs en Europe ont été couverts de graffitis: &laquo;&nbsp;. Juifs, en Palestine&nbsp;&raquo; Puis, quand il atteint la Palestine, les murs ont été griffonnés par les mots «juifs, sortir de la Palestine. &nbsp;&raquo;</p>
<p>Cette mémoire visiblement la perspective des couleurs Oz comme un Juif et un Israélien. Il est un impénitent sioniste. Il a également été l&#8217;un des premiers Israéliens à préconiser une solution à deux Etats au conflit israélo-palestinien après la guerre des Six Jours. Dans un article 1967 dans le journal Davar du travail, il écrit que «même l&#8217;occupation est une occupation inévitable corruption&nbsp;&raquo;.</p>
<p>Un des premiers membres de La Paix Maintenant, une ONG israélienne consacre à la promotion de la paix entre Israéliens et Palestiniens, il s&#8217;est opposé aux colonies de Cisjordanie depuis des décennies. Et en 2011, à l&#8217;indignation de beaucoup, Oz a envoyé une copie de A Tale of Love and Darkness, à le dirigeant du Fatah emprisonné Marwan Barghouti, avec cette dédicace: «Cette histoire est notre histoire, et j&#8217;espère que vous avez bien lu et nous comprenons mieux . En espérant que vous verrez bientôt la paix et la liberté. &nbsp;&raquo;</p>
<p>J&#8217;ai eu la chance d&#8217;entendre parler Oz lors d&#8217;une session plénière à la &laquo;&nbsp;pro-israélien, pro-paix&nbsp;&raquo; organisation de J Street &laquo;&nbsp;Making History&nbsp;&raquo; conférence à Washington, DC récemment. Détendu et s&#8217;engager alors qu&#8217;il s&#8217;adressait à plus de 2000 participants dans une salle caverneuse, Oz martelé à son thème principal: que le conflit israélo-palestinien est une tragédie &laquo;&nbsp;dans le sens le plus pur&nbsp;&raquo;, parce que c&#8217;est un affrontement entre «droite et de droite&nbsp;&raquo; - entre une demande très puissant à la terre et une autre revendication non moins puissante sur la même terre. La Palestine est la patrie des Palestiniens de la même manière la Grèce est la patrie des Grecs, dit-il, et les Israéliens sont en Israël &laquo;&nbsp;pour exactement la même raison&nbsp;&raquo;.</p>
<p>Oz a dit clairement qu&#8217;il a peu de patience pour le «sentimentaliste Ouest&nbsp;&raquo; idée que le conflit est juste une question de malentendus qui peuvent être compensés avec &laquo;&nbsp;une thérapie de groupe peu&nbsp;&raquo;. «Les rivières de boire un café ensemble ne peut pas éteindre la tragédie de deux peuples revendiquant à juste titre le même terrain que leur seul et seule patrie&nbsp;&raquo;, at-il dit. Au lieu de café, ce qu&#8217;il appelle, c&#8217;est un «compromis vivable&nbsp;&raquo;. Compromis signifie la vie. Le contraire du compromis n&#8217;est pas l&#8217;idéalisme et l&#8217;intégrité, mais &laquo;&nbsp;le fanatisme et la mort&nbsp;&raquo;.</p>
<p>Pour ce lauréat du Prix Israël, un Etat ne propose pas une solution. Plutôt que de une lune de miel, ce que les Israéliens et les Palestiniens ont besoin, dans ses mots, est un «juste, si douloureuse, le divorce&nbsp;&raquo;. Mais au lieu de l&#8217;arrangement actuel &#8211; caractérisé par la soumission et de domination &#8211; les parties ont divorcé vivront côte à côte, et non pas les uns sur les autres.</p>
<p>Oz est persuadé que la majorité des Israéliens et des Palestiniens sont prêts à accepter &#8211; à contrecœur &#8211; le divorce: une solution à deux Etats, les frontières de 1967 avec des modifications et des deux capitales à Jérusalem. Il offre une autre métaphore: le patient, israélien et palestinien, est malheureusement prêt pour une intervention chirurgicale douloureuse; les médecins sont des lâches.Les médecins &#8211; la direction des deux côtés &#8211; doit aller de l&#8217;avant. Oz ne sait pas où les dirigeants auront le courage de mener à bien les interventions chirurgicales nécessaires, ou quand, mais les êtres humains sont «ouvertes», ils peuvent surprendre même eux-mêmes. Et, dit-il avec confiance, les personnes qui sont encore en vie aujourd&#8217;hui de concrétiser cette vision.</p>
<p>Maître de la littérature qu&#8217;il est, Oz fait allusion à deux sortes de tragédies: celle de bien connue dramaturge anglais William Shakespeare et ceux du 19ème siècle l&#8217;écrivain russe Anton Tchekhov. Avec Shakespeare, à la fin de la pièce, la scène est couverte de cadavres, mais la justice l&#8217;emporte. Caractères de Tchekhov, d&#8217;autre part, sont déçus, déçus, et la mélancolie &#8211; mais vivant.</p>
<p>Oz est à la recherche vers une fin tchékhovienne du conflit israélo-palestinien &laquo;&nbsp;tragédie&nbsp;&raquo;. Il ne s&#8217;attend pas à des joueurs &#8211; deux peuples avec des droits égaux à la même terre &#8211; d&#8217;être «heureux» quand le conflit est finalement résolu.Mais ils seront encore en vie, et capable, au fil du temps, de la guérison, et de construire une relation nouvelle et productive.</p>
<p>Ceux d&#8217;entre nous qui ont écouté Oz lors de la conférence de J Street pourrait différer sur lequel de ses métaphores &#8211; le divorce ou la chirurgie ou à cette subdivision à domicile &#8211; est le plus apte à décrire la manière dont le conflit doit être résolu. Mais je pense que nous mettre d&#8217;accord sur ceci: la tragédie israélo-palestinienne a besoin d&#8217;une fin de non-shakespearien, et bientôt. C&#8217;est ce qu&#8217;on appelle un compromis.</p>
<p># # #</p>
<p>* Michael Felsen est avocat et est membre du comité du Cercle des accidents du travail à Boston, Massachusetts, une organisation de 110 ans communale dédiée à l&#8217;éducation laïque, la culture juive et la justice sociale. Cet article a paru dans le Jewish Advocate et a été écrit pour le Service Nouvelles de Common Ground (CGNews).</p>
<p>Source: Nouvelles commune de chaussée Service (CGNews), 24 Avril 2012, www.commongroundnews.org<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[&#171;&#160;when injustice becomes law,disobedience becomes duty&#160;&#187; &#8211; Berthold Brecht “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” &#8211;  Isaac Asimov In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.&#160;&#187; -Dr.Martin Luther&#8230; <br /><a href="http://www.forumforpeace.com/2012/04/citations/" class="btn-std"><span class="readmore">Lire l'article</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>&laquo;&nbsp;when injustice becomes law,disobedience becomes duty&nbsp;&raquo; &#8211; Berthold Brecht</p>
<p>“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” &#8211;  Isaac Asimov</p>
<p>In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p>In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
-Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p>Every gun that is made,every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.<br />
-Dwight D. Eisenhower</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Une Ecole qui ouvre c est une prison qui ferme &nbsp;&raquo; V HUGO</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?&nbsp;&raquo;~Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Protest that endures&#8230;is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one&#8217;s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.&nbsp;&raquo;</p>
<p>Wendell Berry</p>
<p>“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.&nbsp;&raquo; ~John F. Kennedy</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn&#8217;t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.&nbsp;&raquo; &#8212; Mark Twain</p>
<p>Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. &#8212; Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined non-conformists who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood.<br />
-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Everybody can be great, because everyone can serve&nbsp;&raquo; -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and conveniences, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.&nbsp;&raquo; ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;It is no longer a choice between VIOLENCE &amp; NON VIOLENCE; it is a choice between NON VIOLENCE &amp; NON EXISTENCE&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
~ Dr Martin Luther King Jr.</p>
<p>“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”</p>
<p>~Martin Luther King, Jr.</p>
<p>It is never too late to be what you might have been. &#8211; George Eliot</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.&nbsp;&raquo; ~ Helen Keller</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.&nbsp;&raquo;</p>
<p>~ John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756</p>
<p>The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. ~ Albert Einstein</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
~ William Arthur Ward</p>
<p>“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”<br />
~ Henry David Thoreau</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate; since any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred within itself.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
FDR, 1940</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people&#8211;whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth&#8211;is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
FDR, 1944</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;In a world of mutual suspicions, peace must be affirmatively reached for. It cannot just be wished for. It cannot just be waited for.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
FDR, 1937</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, &#8216;It can&#8217;t be done.&#8217;&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
Eleanor Roosevelt</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. &laquo;&nbsp;~ Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.&nbsp;&raquo;<br />
Mahatma Gandhi</p>
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