Just Vision
Irene Nasser, who led the session, posted a number of quotes around the
room revolving around different themes (fear, conceptions of peace,
dialogue/reconciliation work, and civic engagement in nonviolence &
peace-building). Each of those quotes was taken from one of the Israeli
or Palestinian peace-builders who are featured on the Just Vision
website. We were asked to spend some time reading each of these quotes,
and then to write a quote of our own, fitting with one of these four
themes. For most of the rest of the session, the group, all together,
read through the quotes we had each written and dialogued about the
issues that each quote brought up. The discussion was intense and
meaningful, and although the focus of the session was primarily
Israel/Palestine, our discussion carried us into topics ranging from
South Africa to remaining optimistic to peace-building in general. It
was fascinating to hear such different perspectives about issues that
are so closely related to what we as peace-builders experience, no
matter our geographic area of focus.
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