Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution
Harrison Owen
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Fri Jul 14 05:03:46 PDT 2006
Barry -- Clearly there are other and better places for discussions of the politics of The Middle East (or whereever). That said, it is also true that a number of folks here on the OSLIST (myself included) find themselves engaged on a regular basis in situations of extremely high conflict. It seems that one of the peculiar gifts of Open Space is that it enables folks who have spent a long time hating/distrusting/misunderstanding each other -- to say nothing of killing each other -- to engage in respectuful discourse productive of useful solutions. When that is your experience it is almost inevitable that your personal opinions and observations come into play, and can have a powerful impact, positive or negative, on our capacity to open space for folks who desperately need it. For something of the flavor of the kinds of things we have been engaged in you might take a look at a short piece I wrote several years ago on work I did with a group of Palestinians and Israelis (http://www.openspaceworld.com/opening_space_for_peace.htm) So I guess I would see it as all part of the learning process as we share our experience doing what we do.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Crook
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: Open Jerusalem: Cornerstone for World Peace - My / Our contribution
And I have read that the Israeli border communities are feeling the same pain from the rain of rockets sent by Hamas and Hezbollah . . . and that living with the constant threat of homicide bombers is no "walk in the park" either . . . but I'm not sure how these things we have heard or read are part of learning about Open Space . . . if I am wrong about the intent of the listserv I will drop my subscription so as to not intrude onto your political discussions . . . if I am right about the intent, then I would ask folks to stick to the purpose of the listserv.
In any case, I too hope that all parties to conflict find the power and courage to seek peace.
R. Barry Crook
Asst. to the City Mgr. / Business Process Mgr.
City Manager's Office
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"Telling ain't teaching and listening ain't learning."
-----Original Message-----
From: Funda Oral [mailto:fundaoral at ttnet.net.tr]
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 6:06 AM
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>
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.
> --
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