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NNOONNVVIIOOLLEENNTT CCHHAANNGGEE Journal of the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change, an interorganizational project of the Organization Development Institute Vol. XXII, No.I Compiled August 24, 2007 Fall 2007 Nonviolent Change helps to network the peace community: providing dialoguing, exchanges of ideas, articles, reviews, reports and announcements of the activities of peace related groups and meetings, reviews of world developments relating to nonviolent change and resource information concerning the development of human relations on the basis of mutual respect. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Comments...……....................….......................................................................………...…..............p...2 Nonviolent Change on the Web.................................................................................….......................,.....p...2 Upcoming Events..............................................................................................................……….................p...2 Ongoing Activities..................................................................................................……...…...................…...p...5 World Developments...................................................................................................……............….….......p..15 Dialoguing: Manish Thapa, “Ministry of Peace and Reconciliation in Nepal”…………….…....................………….....p...40 Jack D. Forbes, “The Iraq Mess: How to Clean It Up”………..………………….….............……...…..…….p...41 Alon Ben-Meir, “Iraq: The Way Out”…………………………………………………….…...........................…..p...42 Alon Ben-Meir, “'Hamas' Bittersweet Victory”………………………………………..…...............……………p...43 Alon Ben-Meir, “Mid-East Peace Conference Under the Shadow of the Iraq War”…………..………….p...44 Uri Avnery, “Crocodile Tears” …………..………………………………………………….......................…...….p…45 David Drelinger and IPF Staff, “A Smarter Hamas Strategy”...……………..…......................…………....p…45 Michael Meyer-Resende and Michel Paternotre, “Recapturing legitimacy in Palestine”.……………….p…49 Hanna Siniora, “Can Politicians Seize the Opportunity?”………………………...…....................……........p…50 Daniel Levy, “Wanted: An Israeli School of Realism”…..…………………………......................……......…p…51 Rafi Dajani, “Recognizing New Realities”…………………………………………….…............................…....p...52 Gush Shalom Statement About the Suffering of Palestinians Stuck at the Closed Rafah Border Crossing………………………………………………………………......................….....p…54 Uri Avnery, “The Dirty Word”..……………………………………….……………..............................…....……p…54 MJ Rosenberg, “A breakthrough soon?”…………………………………………..............................….......…p…57 Rafi Dajani and Daniel Levy, “Getting to yes and recognizing it”…..…..............................………........p…58 Gershon Baskin, “Jerusalem demographics”……………………………….…..............................…......….….p…59 Jihad Abu Zneid, “Jerusalem: A Center of Conflict or a Case for Convergence?”.........……………......p…50 Ziad Asali, “A paradigm shift”..……………………………………….…………………........................…......….p…62 Gershon Baskin and Hanna Siniora, “Three wild "out-of-the-box" ideas”……..…........…………...........p…63 Dan Bar-On and Saliba Sarsar, “Palestinians, Israelis should avow Holocaust, Nakba”………………....p…64 MJ Rosenberg, “Blessed are the peacemakers”.……………………………..…........................….....…........p…66 What We Readers Are About……………………………………………………………………………………………p…67 Articles: Alon Ben-Meir, “Who Really Cared About Iraq”.……………………...............…........………….…….....……p…68 Alon Ben-Meir, “Forty Years of Deadly Delusions”……………………...............…........………….………….p…69 Paul Scham, “A missing link: acknowledgement of historical narratives as part of peacemaking”………………………………………………………………………………………………....………....p…70 Amos Oz, “Israel Partly at Fault” ………………..……………………………..............…........…………..…….p…71 Ziad Asali, “The Palestinian plight” ………………..…………………..............…........…………...………….…p…72 Gershon Baskin, “The Fall of Gaza and the Rise of Palestine”……….…................…........………….…….p…74 Hanna Siniora, “This Week in Palestine: Behind the News with Hanna Siniora”…................……….......p…76 Mara Rudman and Brian Katulis, “The Path Forward from Gaza: Averting a Deeper Crisis”……………………………………..……………………………………................…........………..p…77 Roberta Fahn Schoffman, “Experience Trumps Appeal”…………………….................…........……………..p…78 Byron Bland, “Finding Mandela”………………………………………………….................…........………….…...p…80 Media Notes..............................................................................................................................................…...p…81 COEDITORS: Stephen Sachs, 1916 San Pedro, NE. Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505)265-9388, [email protected] Alon Ben-Meir, NYU (212)866-5998, [email protected] Ruby Quail, Web Master, 10205 Elmhurst, Albuquerque, NM, (505)400-0900, [email protected] Marilee Niehoff, 2025 E. Lincoln St. #1218, Bloomington, IL 61701 (309)663-5302, [email protected] Robert W. Hotes, American College of Counselors, 824 S. Park Ave., Springfield, IL 62704 (217)698-7668, [email protected]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 NONVIOLENT CHANGE JOURNAL (NCJ) ON THE WEB Nonviolent Change is on the web at: http://www.nonviolentchangejournal.org, along with several years of back issues. To be notified by E-mail when new issues are posted, send a request to be added to the NCJ notification E-mail list to Steve Sachs at: [email protected]. Issues are usually posted: Fall, in September or early October; Winter, in January or early February; Spring in mid- March to end of April. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ EDITORS COMMENTS Wishing you a fine fall. The world continues to go through many shifts producing a great many developments in areas of our concern. WE WELCOME YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL THAT IS IN PROGRESS. These pages serve as a networking and dialoguing vehicle. We strongly encourage you to contribute articles (up to 2500 words), news, announcements, comments, queries, responses and art work. It would be very fine if we could develop ongoing discussion from issue to issue. WE ESPECIALLY INVITE YOU TO SEND US A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOUR CONCERNS AND QUERIES, RELATING TO NONVIOLENT CHANGE, FOR OUR "WHAT WE READERS ARE ABOUT" COLUMN." Whenever possible, please make submissions on disk or via e-mail ([email protected]). Please SEND WRITINGS AND ART WORK FOR NONVIOLENT CHANGE electronically to Steve Sachs (E-mail address top of p. 2). Steve puts together a draft of each issue and sends it to Marliee Niehoff and Bob Hotes for Editing. Steve then undertakes e-mailing, printing, snail mailing, while Ruby Quail posts the issue on the web. (Unsigned writings are Steve's). We welcome additional editors and column writers to cover geographic or topic areas on an ongoing or one time basis. We would very muck like to have additional people share in the compiling of information in each issue. COMMUNICATING ABOUT ANY OTHER RESEARCH/STUDY TEAM BUSINESS CAN BE DIRECTED TO ANY OF THE COCHAIRS (ADDRESS ON P. 1) or to OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE: DON COLE, ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, [email protected], www.odinstitute.org, who is coordinating networking among organizations. ***************************************************************** DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE IS DECEMBER 8 **************************************************** ONGOING ACTIVITIES Steve Sachs “Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org) collaborating with dozens of peace and community groups, including Mainstreet Moms ([email protected], [email protected]: (415) 505-4669), Goldstar Families for Peace (http://www.democracyinaction.org) True Majority (http://www.AmericaSaysNo.org), Code Pink (http://www.codepinkalert.org), United for Peace (ttp://www.unitedforpeace.org), and Move On (http://pol.moveon.org) held demonstrations, marches and meetings over Mothers Day weekend, May 10-14 In Washington, D.C. (including a White House Vigil) and around the county protesting President Bush’s Veto of the funding bill with a time table for bringing the troops home for Iraq, demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in Iraq, and opposing militay action against Iran. For details go to: www.mandateforpeace.org, and http://www.democracyinaction.org or http://www.unitedforpeace.org.. American's Against Escalation undertook a major new organizing initiative to end the War in Iraq - Iraq Summer - deploying 110 organizers to key Congressional districts to try to stop “the disastrous war in Iraq,” executing a national program to convince critical elements of the Republican base to stop their support for the war. For information contact [email protected] or [email protected]. These organizations have also been engaged in a campaign for negotiations with Iran, not war. And have also been working for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Global Exchange responded to the violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying “The violence witnessed over the past two weeks are the results of months, even years, of pressure building in the Gaza Strip. We condemn the violence carried out by both Hamas and Fatah, recognizing that the U.S. and Israel bear responsibility