Bassam Aramin is a Palestinian who had been a Fatah Freedom militant and served seven years in prison in Israel. Years later, his 10-year-old daughter, Abir, was killed by an Israeli soldier, but amazingly he chose not to seek revenge. Instead he forgave and went on to co-found Combatants for Peace with Elik Elhanan, an... Continue Reading →
Bassam Aramin is a Palestinian who had been a Fatah Freedom militant and served seven years in prison in Israel. Years later, his 10-year-old daughter, Abir, was killed by an Israeli soldier, but amazingly he chose not to seek revenge. Instead he forgave and went on to co-found Combatants for Peace with Elik Elhanan, an... Continue Reading →
ARTICLE: Bringing our own lens: Visualising #conflict in #Palestine #ImagineBelfast http://ow.ly/ZyjnL
Bringing our own lens: Visualising conflict in Palestine
Bringing our own lens: Visualising conflict in Palestine by Allan LEONARD 15 March 2016 The rear room at Common Grounds Cafe was the venue for a display of three types of imagery — participatory, documentary, and expository — for the Imagine! Festival of Ideas & Politics event, Visualising Conflict in Palestine, which was attended by... Continue Reading →
We worked hard to end talk on #Israel #Palestine session with #hope http://ow.ly/TN5yu
Hope must lie with the children of Israel/Palestine
Hope must lie with the children of Israel/Palestine: Professor Padraig O’Malley talk at Queen’s University Belfast by Allan LEONARD 21 October 2015 Professor Padraig O’Malley gave a bleak prognosis of the Israel/Palestine peace negotiations, calling the two-state proposal ‘delusional’. At an event hosted by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice... Continue Reading →
I just bought: 'Two-State Delusion: #Israel & #Palestine: A Tale of Two Narratives' by @MoakleyChairUMB @AmazonUK #fb http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0670025054/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_asp_CmLeJ.PNG4F94
I just bought: 'Two-State Delusion: #Israel & #Palestine: A Tale of Two Narratives' by @MoakleyChairUMB @AmazonUK #fb http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0670025054/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_asp_CmLeJ.PNG4F94
Women: Dealing with the past: WRDA workshop
Women: Dealing with the past: WRDA workshop by Allan LEONARD 12 November 2013 Well over 100 women participated in a workshop event on the topic of dealing with the past. Organised by the Women’s Resource & Development Agency (WRDA), there were summaries of previous workshops as well as keynote speeches from Reverend Dr Lesley Carroll... Continue Reading →
Cartoons in Conflict
As part of its 2010 Summer School, Community Dialogue (www.communitydialogue.org) hosted an exhibition of international cartoonists' contributions to The Parents Circle - Families Forum (www.theparentscircle.com), which is a grassroots organisation based in the Middle East. The Parents Circle - Families Forum represents more than 500 families, both Israeli and Palestinian, who have lost a family... Continue Reading →