Harold
"Hal" Saunders
Father
of the Public Peace Process has died
06 March 2016
"Governments
cannot do the whole job themselves.
Increasingly,
change comes from the bottom up and not from the top down.
Increasingly
governments find themselves paralyzed to do what they ought to do.
And the
Arab-Israeli peace process is a very good example of a conflict in which
political
authorities seem paralyzed and unable to do what they need to do.
Small wonder then
that groups (of citizens increasingly) gather. . .to attempt to
change that
relationship from the inside out."
~ Amb. Harold "Hal" Saunders (1930-2016)
Hal Saunders, beloved mentor and
visionary, died peacefully at home from his unforgiving cancer early this
morning.
In the spirit of Dialogue and our equal humanity, he would not have wanted this
to entitle him Ambassador or Dr. which he was.
In the U.S. Department of State, Hal facilitated five successful Arab-Israelis
treaties.
After government service, he named and championed the "public peace
process" and created the Sustained Dialogue Institute -- http://sustaineddialogue.org
He especially treasured the youth of it's
Sustained Dialogue Campus Network -- http://sustaineddialogue.org/our-work/campus/
Hal defined these 2000s as The Citizens' Century.
His intellect, wisdom, and heart is understood by his books:
A PUBLIC PEACE PROCESS: Sustained Dialogue to
Transform Racial and Ethnic Conflicts (1999)
POLITICS IS ABOUT
RELATIONSHIP:
A Worldview of The Citizens' Century (2005)
SUSTAINED DIALOGUE IN
CONFLICTS:
Transformation
and Change (2011)
Hal and his
wife, Carol, have loved -- given fully of themselves
to awaken especially young adults to become innovators and exemplars of
relationship building and communication excellence.
READ more about Hal in Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Saunders
STUDY the 1991 signed document Framework for a Public Peace Process
-- http://traubman.igc.org/ppp.pdf
VIEW GRAPHICS illustrating Dialogue and the Public Peace Process of
Change -- http://traubman.igc.org/changechartsall.pdf
WATCH VIDEO:
The
Public Peace Process:
1991 announcement
by Ambassador Harold Saunders
(4-1/2 min video)
and
Let us live
this life.
It is about
love, Hal said.
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OBITUARY
Harold H. Saunders, Mideast Peace Broker, Dies at 85
The New York
Times -- March 8, 2016
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