Being
Together: Antidote for war - Creator of
community
28 August 2018
"What I have learned
from years in the classroom...
As a public policy
advocate...a peacebuilder...
Counter to almost everything
I was taught...
Has less to do with the
quality of the argument I make...
More to do with the
relationships I build."
~ Charles "Chip" Hauss
Senior Fellow for Innovation
Alliance for
Peacebuilding, Washington, DC
"Day by day and night
by night we were together,
All else has long been
forgotten by me."
~ Walt Whitman
from the poem "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City"
Today
1. Being Together: Antidote
to Deep Conflict
2. Being Together: Palestinians & Israelis Creating a New Story
3. Being Together: Eight Years of Minority & Refugee
Inclusiveness in eastern DR Congo
4. Being Together: Muslim & Jewish Young Adults in Los Angeles
USA
5. Enrichment
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Being Together:
Antidote for Deep Conflict
Being together -- practicing inclusiveness --
is humankind's best cure for Deep Identity that can divide us.
Much of our Deep Identity is learned before age seven, with origins
long-forgotten and inaccessible to our immediate memory.
Content of one's Deep Identity includes:
1. Ethnicity and Culture, including
Religion
2. Race
3. Class
4. Language
5. Gender
African-American educator Shariff
Abdullah describes how Deep Identity can distance people into
"us" and "them" to create "others" and contribute
to Deep Conflict -- the source of the hundreds of big and small wars that
ravage our homes, neighborhoods, planet.
Abdullah concludes: "Practicing inclusiveness is an antidote for
Deep Conflict."
Deep Identity
Shariff Abdullah
Finding Common Ground
-- 07 August 2018
48-min video
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Being Together:
Palestinians & Israelis
Creating a New Story
For nine years, New Story Leadership has gathered courageous, outspoken women
and men from Palestinian and Israel for a summer of face-to-face living and
learning together in ways that strengthen communication skills, mutual
dignity, determination to create a new, shared future.
VIEW and HEAR them describe their inclusive identification and
determination -- http://www.newstoryleadership.org/14133-2/
READ:
Israelis, Palestinians tell their stories to
Bethesda audience
Washington Jewish Week -- 28 June 2018
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Being Together:
Eight Years of Minority and
Refugee Inclusiveness in
Eastern DR Congo
Overcoming a history of violent
suffering, a creative minority
of citizens -- including massacre survivors --have fashioned ways to bring
together traditionally alienated women, men, and youth in eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo.
Meeting and listening in new ways, they continue finding new ways to humanize
each other and outline their new agreements and ways of living together.
Step-by-Step Ethnic, Religious, and Tribal
Healing and Community Building in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo (2013-2018)
https://traubman.igc.org/vidnigeriadrcongoeast.htm
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Muslim & Jewish
Young Adults in
Los Angeles USA
NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for
Change -- http://mjnewground.org -- helps willing young adults pour
themselves into some of the hardest conversations and relationships in
their lives -- moving beyond Deep Identity.
THEY SHOW US what being together looks and sounds like:
Curiosity First:
Four Jewish, four Muslim teens sit down together
to ask questions
NewGround - July 2018
1-min video
Making MAJIC: Moving Through Discomfort
New Ground - July 2018
6-1/2 min video
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Enrichment
Five Reasons to be Optimistic About the State of
the World
Pachamama Alliance - 2018
3-min video
https://landing.pachamama.org/5-reasons-to-be-optimistic
Voices of Hope Children's Choir
How Far I'll Go -- August 2018
5-min video
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