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

Thu Jul 13 21:51:52 PDT 2006

Funda & dear OS friands

A lot of people doing constant effort to promote peace and understending, we 
had use OST at several occasions and there is a lot of work to be done.

Looking for better future

Shay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our 
contribution

> Shay,
>
> I am sorry if my e-mail has offended you in any way.
>
> "So you think that the only challenge is to stop the Israeli aggression?"
>
> I don't know. I don't think anything.
>
> I only wanted to write the words i read in the news yesterday at the same 
> time
> with the news about ost meeting. I felt a little strange, couldn't keep 
> quiet and wanted to share this feeling.
>
> "The world looks very simple from your point of view."
>
> I really wished that "making peace"....."to stop anybody's aggression" had 
> been much more "simple"
>
> regards,
> Funda
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Shay Ben Yosef" <shayby at communitynet.co.il>
> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our 
> contribution
>
>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Funda Oral" <fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr>
>> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 2:05 PM
>> 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
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpanne at boscop.de>
>>> To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>>> 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.
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
>>>> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
>>>> ++49-30-772 8000
>>>> www.boscop.de   www.michaelmpannwitz.de
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Check out the new Open Space World Map now with 406 resident Open Space 
>>>> Workers in 67 countries (working in a total of 122 countries worldwide)
>>>> www.openspaceworldmap.org
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