Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution

Wed Jul 12 23:03:46 PDT 2006

Funda

So you think that the only challenge is to stop the Israeli aggression?

The world looks very simple from your point of view.

Best

Shay

(Proud Israeli & seeking for peace)

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From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
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Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our 
contribution

> In the last 2 months, i stopped reading newspapers to protect the health 
> of my mind.
>
> But i still follow some summaries.
>
> I am reading that Gazze is like a "hell" Israel is bombing the city.
>
> Israel is giving the electricity only 2 hours.
>
> People don't have food, water and medicine.
>
> I hope we find power and courage to get over....to build peace...........
>
> Funda
>
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> From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 5:56 PM
> Subject: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our 
> contribution
>
>
>> Dear Filiz and you others,
>> I was involved in it as the facilitator together with Yaari, Anna,Dominik 
>> and Vera (essentially the same team we had at the meeting of 200+ Imams 
>> and Rabbis earlier this year in Sevilla, you can see all of them in the 
>> open space world map).
>> The conference started Sunday July 2nd and closed on Thursday morning, 
>> July 6. The open space part began on Monday afternoon and closed on 
>> Wednesday evening.
>> There were 8 breakout sessions (which made it the longest os I ever 
>> facilitated), 40 issues, 34 reports and 30 action proposals with concrete 
>> steps...all in all a normal os-event.
>> There were about 20 Israelis and 20 Palestinians and 60+ people from 
>> other places interested in Peace in that region.
>> People in attendance from the region like Avner Haramati from Israel and 
>> Carol Daniel-Kasbari from Palestine could tell you more about what 
>> happened there and what it means...I just experienced the normal peaceful 
>> process of open space with lots of excited people.
>> The call for someone to coordinate all of this is both common and at the 
>> same time an issue that the person feeling this call can follow through 
>> on. In fact, some got together and had a pretty well worked out plan 
>> including the financing to create an internet platform to do just that.
>>
>> One participant summed it up in the Closing Circle (similarly to what ho 
>> observed and recorded in "The Practice of Peace" at the gathering in Rome 
>> a couple of years ago)with the words:
>> "Everyday looking at the reports on television, listening to the radio, 
>> reading the newspapers windows to hell open up for me. Here a window to 
>> heaven opened."
>> The productive, peaceful quality of this event in the face of what 
>> happens in the war zones many participants came from is a miracle.
>>
>> Since there was an agreement not to take pictures and not to produce a 
>> book of proceedings and not to copy the action proposals participants now 
>> will rely on their ingenuity and their selforganized very detailed 
>> contact list to continue the work.
>>
>> Greetings from Berlin getting ready to fire up the barbecue for 3 of my 
>> grandchildren visiting ....
>> See you in Moscow in 3 weeks
>> mmp
>>
>> Filiz Telek wrote:
>>> Apparently there was another “open space” for middle east peace..anyone 
>>> was involved in it?
>>>
>>>  Monday, 10 July 2006
>>>
>>> To all Peace Workers;
>>>
>>> the  conference at the Lasalle-Institute "Jerusalem, City of Peace" has 
>>> finished. For three long days about 120 people met, guided and 
>>> accompanied by the method of "open space" in order to communicate about 
>>> visions, possible projects, and new possibilities of cooperation. 
>>> Considering the urgency of the current situation it is debatable whether 
>>> the methods of „open space“ can achieve satisfactory result. “Open 
>>>  space” is able to start the activity and the dialogue among the 
>>> participants, but then I was missing the coordinating, co-guiding 
>>> element, the person who keeps the overview and participates form there 
>>> in a guiding way. For me the extraordinary quality of the conference 
>>> consisted in the fact that people gathered  who won’t meet normally. It 
>>> belongs to the consistent method of the representatives of the 
>>> Lasalle-Institute that they want to initiate the change on government 
>>> level as well as on the level of projects which are working at the very 
>>> basis. A big thanks goes to Pater Niklaus Brantschen, Anna Gamma and Pia 
>>> Gyger for their tireless and unconditional commitment for peace in the 
>>> Middle East.
>>> Results of the conference: new contacts were made, architectural models 
>>> for Jerusalem as a world city of peace were presented. The film “We 
>>> Refuse to be Enemies” was presented and found good resonance. Letters to 
>>> decisive representatives of governments and religions were worded in 
>>> order to declare Jerusalem a weapon-free zone. My impression is that 
>>> many peace workers do not yet see how much we must change structures and 
>>> systems and to what extend we are challenged to develop new functioning 
>>> models. Would the world evolve as much about peace as it just evolved 
>>> about football, we were for sure on the winners’ side. This is the focus 
>>> for which we from the Healing
>>> Biotope I participated. With patience and persistence we direct our 
>>> perseverance and our continual work to this point again and again. In me 
>>> it causes the radicalisation to reinforce my commitment for the 
>>> humanization of money and to set off for my way to motivate business 
>>> people to invest their
>>> money in the development of models for peace villages. With the amount 
>>> of money that one tank costs we could do powerful steps of manifestation 
>>> in the global peace movement. The developing peace villages would be 
>>> something like the points of crystallization and energy accelerators to 
>>> make one perspective of the peace movement visible. I phrased a new 
>>> pilgrim-text that I want to send out in the Ring of Power this time. May 
>>> it be heard by the relevant forces.
>> --
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>>
>>
>>
>> Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
>> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
>> ++49-30-772 8000
>> www.boscop.de   www.michaelmpannwitz.de
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