Organizations working for Israeli-Palestinian peace
Compiled by Noa Baum
This resource list was given to audience members at Noa Baum's performance of
"A Land Twice Promised" at UMass Amherst on April 5, 2005.
Some organizations that are actively working for Israeli-Palestinian peace:
• THE COALITION OF WOMEN FOR PEACE ... www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org
One of the leading voices in Israel of Jewish and Palestinian women (all citizens of Israel), advocating for a just and viable peace between Israel and Palestine ever since its founding in November 2000, just six weeks after the current Intifada began. Brings together independent women and nine women's peace organizations, some newly formed and others promoting coexistence since the founding of the state of Israel.
• THE PARENTS’ CIRCLE ... www.theparentscircle.com
Parents who have lost sons and daughters in the violence in the Middle East have formed an organization working relentlessly, with lots of personal risks, to bring their message to both societies: “Better Have Pains Of Peace Than Agonies Of War “.
• SEEDS OF PEACE ... www.seedsofpeace.org
Brings Palestinian and Israeli youth for seminars and camps in the US to create relationships and dialogue.
• "SEEDS" THE MOVIE ... www.seedsthemovie.com
A feature-length documentary produced by merge:media, is an intimate and candid document of the incredible stories and experiences at the heart of Seeds of Peace.
All donations to the Seeds project are tax deductible. As much as 50% of the Net Profit from the sale of the film will be donated back to Seeds of Peace.
• Jozoor Microfinance ... www.jozoor.org
is a sustainable NGO that aims to spark entrepreneurship among young rural Palestinian males through the use of microloans and training. Created together by a young Israeli-American and West Bank Palestinian who both lost relatives as innocent victims of Middle East violence.
• TA'AYUSH (in Arabic, “living together” or “life in common”) ... www.taayush.org
A non-profit organization of direct action. In the struggle to end both the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories as well as racist discrimination within Israel, Ta`ayush activists have developed new forms of Arab-Jewish non-violent action from below.
• Neve Shalom / Wahat a(l)-Salam ... www.nswas.com
• Givat Haviva The Jewish-Arab Center for Peace. Mohammad Darawshe, Director of Public Relations dovergh@inter.net.il Tel: 064-475437
• The Interfaith Encounter Association ... www.interfaith-encounter.org
P.O.Box 3814, Jerusalem 91037, Israel Phone: +972-2-6510520
• Friends of the Earth Middle East ... www.foeme.org
(EcoPeace) Joint Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian Environmental Forum
Sources of Information on Palestinian-Israeli Collaborative Efforts for Peace:
• JUST VISION ... www.justvision.org
Advancing the work of Israelis and Palestinians who refuse to succumb to apathy, militancy or despair.
• IPCRI (Israel-Palestine Center for research and Information) ... www.ipcri.org
The Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information -- founded in Jerusalem in 1988, and the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in the world. IPCRI is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian.
• Alternative Information Center ... www.alternativenews.org
• Palestine-Israel Journal ... www.pij.org
• Rabbis for Human Rights ... www.rhr.israel.net
• Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) ... www.icahd.org
There are also important collaborative efforts here in the US:
• Living Room Dialogue Project ... http://traubman.igc.org/peace.htm
• The Dialogue Project in NYC ... www.thedialogueproject.org
• Partners for Peace ... www.partnersforpeace.org
• Peace Café (Andy Shallal) ... ashallal@cox.net
• Union of American Hebrew congregations ... www.seekpeace.org
• Churches for Middle East Peace ... www.cmep.org
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