[Peace-discussion] FW: Hope in Amman: A timely article

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Reminds me of Molly Ivins Column today..

Peace,

joni

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From: Steve Woodall [mailto:steveoftulsa@cox.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:42 PM
To: Steve Woodall; Gerald L. Davis; Joni LaViness; Rebecca Renfro; Susan
Singh; Valerie Mapstone- Ackerman; Thea Nietfeld
Subject: Hope in Amman: A timely article 

Nonviolence can work wonders - even in the Middle East

A gathering in Jordan gives peacemakers in the region new cause for hope.

By Helena Cobban 

AMMAN, JORDAN - It was an extraordinary gathering. For four days at the end
of October, 60 people, most from the Middle East, came together here to
discuss how concerted nonviolent action might defuse tensions and help bring
peace to this war-blighted part of the world. 

A distinguished scholar from India helped us engage closely with the
teachings of Mohandas Gandhi, and a veteran African-American participant in
the US civil rights movement helped us explore the work of Martin Luther
King Jr. We heard from Israeli and Palestinian activists about projects to
restore wholeness and hope to communities burdened heavily with fear,
violence, and foreign occupation. We learned about the quiet
transformational work that Christian Peacemaker Teams have done in Iraq and
the West Bank, and explored theories and practices of nonviolent action from
around the world. 

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This assembly - a UN-sponsored leadership conference on nonviolence -
brought together Israelis, Palestinians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Egyptians, and
others from the Middle East. One-third of the participants came from farther
afield - from Nepal, Uganda, Cameroon, Sri Lanka, Russia, South Africa, and
elsewhere - and added a valuable global and comparative perspective to the
mix. 

We saw very secular Israeli activists engaging passionately with socially
conservative (and very articulate) veiled women from Jordan and the
Palestinian territories. Pro-peace Israeli rabbis in yarmulkes worked with
Muslim teachers in flowing robes. There were Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and
secular peace activists, and veterans of nonviolent struggles in South
Africa, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere.

On the final night, an Israeli rabbi and a young Arab woman sang a poem
composed two hours earlier by a South African. It told of the dream of
coexistence along the Jordan River.

How did this happen - at a time of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and deadly civil strife in Iraq?

It was a combination of hard work and serendipity (you could say grace).

Back in April, Jairam Reddy, the head of the Amman-based United Nations
University International Leadership Institute (UNU-ILI) planned this course
to coincide with the centennial of Gandhi's first nonviolent demonstration,
undertaken in Dr. Reddy's native South Africa in September 1906. Then, the
punishing 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon this July dealt a huge
setback to Israel's already fragile peace movement. And between April and
October, the violence in Iraq escalated.

But throughout that violence-racked summer, small groups in all those
countries continued to believe in and practice the principles of
nonviolence. Annemie De Winter, the regional representative of Germany's
Friedrich Naumann Foundation, stayed in touch with many of them. She helped
UNU-ILI to assemble the rich roster of in-region course participants. Reddy
and his staff did the rest of the work. (Disclosure: I gave Reddy a small
amount of consulting help on the project.) The Saudi Arabian Embassy in
Washington made a small but welcome financial donation. Then, given the
talent, commitment, and flexibility of the group that assembled in Amman,
the four days of work and learning flowed remarkably well.

I have supported many nongovernmental efforts for reconciliation and justice
between Arabs and Israelis since the late 1980s, and I've seen this movement
traverse times of hope and times of great setbacks. Considering the
difficult conditions it had to confront, I was truly amazed at how
successful the UNU-ILI gathering was.

Our gathering thrived because of the great human qualities and rich
experience of the participants. It helped, too, that so many Middle
Easterners can now see that violence - whether direct physical violence or
the violence of oppressive systems - simply does not "work." So in key
places, people have become more eager to seek alternatives.

The achievements of Gandhi's movement in India and of the (largely
nonviolent) African National Congress in South Africa last century are solid
examples of the effectiveness of nonviolent mass action that today's
peacemakers embrace as instructive models. The teachings of Gandhi, Dr.
King, and others do not try to avoid the big political problems that
conflict- ridden or oppressed societies face. Instead, they seek to mobilize
new, nonviolent human energies in order to resolve them.

Obviously, this movement toward nonviolent action in the Middle East is
still in its infancy. In every country in the region, it is still vulnerable
to the forces of violence. But in Amman in October, vital seeds were sown,
and vital connections made. Now, we all need to work hard to nurture and
strengthen this hopeful movement.

. Helena Cobban is the author of "Amnesty after Atrocity? Healing Nations
after Genocide and War Crimes." 

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From: Steve =
Woodall
[mailto:steveoftulsa@cox.net] 
Sent: Friday, November =
10, 2006
4:42 PM 
To: Steve Woodall; Gerald =
L.
Davis; Joni LaViness; Rebecca Renfro; Susan Singh; Valerie Mapstone- =
Ackerman;
Thea Nietfeld 
Subject: Hope in =
<st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Amman</st1:place></st1:City>: A timely article =
<o:p></o:p>

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<h1><b><font size=3D6 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:24.0pt'>Nonviolence
can work wonders - even in the Middle =
East<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>

<h2><b><font size=3D5 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:18.0pt'>A
gathering in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region>
gives peacemakers in the region new cause for =
hope.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>

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<p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3Dbyline><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times =
New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>By Helena Cobban</span></font></span> =
<o:p></o:p></p>

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<st1:place w:st=3D"on"><st1:City w:st=3D"on">AMMAN</st1:City>, =
<st1:country-region
 w:st=3D"on">JORDAN</st1:country-region></st1:place> &#8211; =
It was an extraordinary gathering. For four days at the end =
of
October, 60 people, most from the Middle East, came together here to =
discuss
how concerted nonviolent action might defuse tensions and help bring =
peace to
this war-blighted part of the world. <o:p></o:p>

A distinguished scholar from =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">India</st1:country-region> helped us engage closely with the
teachings of Mohandas Gandhi, and a veteran African-American participant =
in the
<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
civil rights movement helped us explore the work of Martin Luther King =
Jr. We
heard from Israeli and Palestinian activists about projects to restore
wholeness and hope to communities burdened heavily with fear, violence, =
and
foreign occupation. We learned about the quiet transformational work =
that
Christian Peacemaker Teams have done in <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
and the <st1:place w:st=3D"on">West Bank</st1:place>, and explored =
theories and
practices of nonviolent action from around the =
world. <o:p></o:p>

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This assembly - a UN-sponsored leadership =
conference
on nonviolence - brought together Israelis, Palestinians, Iraqis, =
Jordanians,
Egyptians, and others from the <st1:place w:st=3D"on">Middle =
East</st1:place>.
One-third of the participants came from farther afield - from =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Nepal</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Uganda</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Cameroon</st1:country-region>, =
<st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Russia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">South =
Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and elsewhere - and added a valuable global and comparative perspective =
to the
mix. <o:p></o:p>

We
saw very secular Israeli activists engaging passionately with socially
conservative (and very articulate) veiled women from <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the Palestinian
territories. Pro-peace Israeli rabbis in yarmulkes worked with Muslim =
teachers
in flowing robes. There were Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and secular =
peace
activists, and veterans of nonviolent struggles in <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">South
 Africa</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Northern
 Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and =
elsewhere.<o:p></o:p>

On
the final night, an Israeli rabbi and a young Arab woman sang a poem =
composed
two hours earlier by a South African. It told of the dream of =
coexistence along
the <st1:place w:st=3D"on">Jordan =
River</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p>

<p class=3Dtext1><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>How
did this happen - at a time of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian =
conflict and
deadly civil strife in <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>?<o:p></o:p></span></fon=
t></p>

<p class=3Dtext1><font size=3D3 face=3D"Times New Roman"><span =
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'>It
was a combination of hard work and serendipity (you could say =
grace).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

Back
in April, Jairam Reddy, the head of the Amman-based United Nations =
University
International Leadership Institute (UNU-ILI) planned this course to =
coincide
with the centennial of Gandhi's first nonviolent demonstration, =
undertaken in
Dr. Reddy's native <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">South
 Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> in September 1906. Then, the
punishing 34-day war between <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on">Lebanon</st1:country-region> this =
July dealt
a huge setback to <st1:country-region w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
already fragile peace movement. And between April and October, the =
violence in <st1:country-region
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place w:st=3D"on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> =
escalated.<o:p></o:p>

But
throughout that violence-racked summer, small groups in all those =
countries
continued to believe in and practice the principles of nonviolence. =
Annemie De
Winter, the regional representative of <st1:country-region =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s Friedrich =
Naumann
Foundation, stayed in touch with many of them. She helped UNU-ILI to =
assemble
the rich roster of in-region course participants. Reddy and his staff =
did the
rest of the work. (Disclosure: I gave Reddy a small amount of consulting =
help
on the project.) The Saudi Arabian Embassy in <st1:State =
w:st=3D"on"><st1:place
 w:st=3D"on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> made a small but welcome
financial donation. Then, given the talent, commitment, and flexibility =
of the
group that assembled in <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Amman</st1:place></st1:City>,
the four days of work and learning flowed remarkably =
well.<o:p></o:p>

I
have supported many nongovernmental efforts for reconciliation and =
justice
between Arabs and Israelis since the late 1980s, and I've seen this =
movement
traverse times of hope and times of great setbacks. Considering the =
difficult
conditions it had to confront, I was truly amazed at how successful the =
UNU-ILI
gathering was.<o:p></o:p>

Our
gathering thrived because of the great human qualities and rich =
experience of
the participants. It helped, too, that so many Middle Easterners can now =
see
that violence - whether direct physical violence or the violence of =
oppressive
systems - simply does not &quot;work.&quot; So in key places, people =
have
become more eager to seek alternatives.<o:p></o:p>

The
achievements of Gandhi's movement in India and of the (largely =
nonviolent)
African National Congress in South Africa last century are solid =
examples of
the effectiveness of nonviolent mass action that today's peacemakers =
embrace as
instructive models. The teachings of Gandhi, Dr. King, and others do not =
try to
avoid the big political problems that conflict- ridden or oppressed =
societies
face. Instead, they seek to mobilize new, nonviolent human energies in =
order to
resolve them.<o:p></o:p>

Obviously,
this movement toward nonviolent action in the <st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Middle East</st1:place>
is still in its infancy. In every country in the region, it is still =
vulnerable
to the forces of violence. But in <st1:City w:st=3D"on"><st1:place =
w:st=3D"on">Amman</st1:place></st1:City>
in October, vital seeds were sown, and vital connections made. Now, we =
all need
to work hard to nurture and strengthen this hopeful =
movement.<o:p></o:p>

&#8226;
Helena Cobban is the author of =
&quot;Amnesty
after Atrocity? Healing Nations after Genocide and War =
Crimes.&quot;
<o:p></o:p>

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