PLEASE FORWARD -- Encouraging,
first-of its-kind peace symposium for Arab and Jewish students
WHAT: Symposium on
Peace, Activism, Reconciliation, & Cooperation (SPARC)
WHERE: Georgetown University -- Washington, DC
WHEN: Sunday, March 3, 2003
WHO: Sponsored by the new Georgetown Students for Middle East Peace
For Arab
and Jewish students, and supportive others
COST: Only $15 for two meals, symposium, and concert
Space is limited -- Reservation deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 26
To sign up, contact: Rebecca Helmer -- RAH27@georgetown.edu --
(202) 728-7908
A flyer, with background and sign-up link is on the Web at http://traubman.igc.org/gtown2.htm
Students for Middle East Peace is a new,
non-partisan organization that works to bring together people of diverse
backgrounds and political opinions to engage them in dialogue and to promote
tolerance, education, and understanding. We have a Board of sixteen -- half
Arabs, half Jews.
In order to further our goals, we have decided to
host a symposium on March 2, 2003 for students from Georgetown and several
other local colleges and universities.
The symposium will be the first of its kind.
Students from different schools in the area will come together and will
participate in conflict resolution workshops and dialogues. We will host
several speakers to discuss peace projects involving the Middle East. and to
initiate dialogue.
That night, we will have a fundraising concert
to benefit the Abraham Fund -- named for the common ancestor of Muslims, Jews,
and Christians. It works to create exchange programs between Israelis and
Palestinians.
The concert will be a lot of fun, and tickets
will be cheap!
We plan for it to be multi-cultural; well have
dancers, singers and musicians representing different regions of the Middle
East, as well as a newly-formed Jewish-Arab band.
The goal of our symposium is to unite people of
diverse backgrounds and to promote education and understanding in a fun and
interesting way, and we hope that you will be a part of it.
This event is going to make a splash! We hope
for widespread participation, to begin preventing our campuses from facing the
same problems and polarization that other universities have faced. We hope to unite
groups that might otherwise rarely interact.
We want to accomplish what we see as a noble
goal in a very original way. Together, we really can make a difference.
To sign up, contact: Rebecca Helmer -- RAH27@georgetown.edu --
(202) 728-7908