Combatants for Peace Visit to England, 21-30 July 2010
Hosted by Encounters, In association with The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace, Amnesty International UK and The Centre for Peace and reconciliation studies at Coventry University.
From 21st to 30th July 2010, Encounters hosts our TulKarem-Tel Aviv group for a UK tour of public events to [...]
“At first I was running after children throwing stones. 12 years later I was shooting above children heads at their homes.”
Photography by Dubi Roman
Zohar Shapira, 40, is a teacher living in Tel Aviv. He served 15 years in the Israeli military, and for some of this time was a member of Israel’s top commando unit. [...]
“I tried to hide my tears from the other prisoners who wouldn’t have understood why I was crying about the pain of my oppressors.”
Photography by Dubi Roman
Bassam Aramin became involved in the Palestinian struggle as a boy growing up in the ancient city of Hebron. At 17, he was caught planning an attack on Israeli [...]
“Even though I was a little girl, I felt more powerful than the soldiers because I was the person with right on my side.”
Photography by Dubi Roman
Riham Musa is a law student living in Tulkarm in the West Bank. At the age of 15, she was shot in the stomach by an Israeli soldier as [...]
The aim of the Non-Violence project is to equip the representatives of the local bi national groups with better knowledge and a more profound understanding of non-violence principles, so that they can teach the members of their own groups, and implement these principles in the field.
A Seminar will mark the opening of a process, [...]
Two CFP members speaking in All For Peace radio channel (Hebrew)
A conversation between fellow sufferers and partners in the hope of finding the way to re-conciliate, with the goal of producing an environment of mutual respect while striving to find a just and fair solution which is accepted by both sides.
To get to know and understand the other – [...]
One United City??
The Jerusalem branch of Combatants for Peace conducts tours in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem in order to expose Israelis and foreigners to the reality in the eastern city. The tour exposes various aspects of the Israeli policy in the Palestinian neighborhoods and focuses on different forms of institutionalized discrimination, on the separation [...]
