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The
Bilbao
Initiative: Another Future is Possible
Friday 27 July 2007
Paradise Hotel,
Bethlehem
This is an invitation-only event. For additional information concerning attendance, please contact Connie at:
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Recent dramatic events in the Gaza Strip and the local and international political developments in their wake have generated an urgent need to analyze the rapidly changing situation and to strategize together – Palestinians, Israelis and internationals – how to best act in this new context.
In previous conferences, we created the framework for a type of international think tank that includes Palestinians, non-Palestinian Arabs, Israelis and international activists. Now is the time to strengthen this framework and loudly demand, as representatives of civil society, an end to the Israeli occupation and building of a just peace. The Bilbao Declaration, drafted and agreed to in 2003 by a wide spectrum of local and international groups, presents the minimum necessary conditions for such a peace.
This seminar aims to begin analyzing current political developments. We will further commence the process of jointly updating the Bilbao Declaration while strategising together on how to use it as a positive basis for our local and international advocacy, most immediately at the upcoming Madrid Social Forum (thematic meeting on
Palestine
) in December 2007. A Follow-Up Committee of representative organizations and activists will be selected at the conclusion of this seminar to lead this process.
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-11:00 Welcome, Political Perspectives at the Beginning of a New Era
· Welcome and moderator: Michael Warschawski (AIC)
· Palestinian political figure
· Professor Naomi Chazan
· MP Jordi Pedret i Grenzner (Spanish Parliament)
11:00-12:15 Political Challenges Following the
Gaza
Crisis
· Dr. Majed Nassar (HWC)
· Professor Yossi Schwartz (AIC)
· Moderator: Khulood Badawi (Coalition of Women for Peace)
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-15:15 The Dead End of the Peace Process: Dilemmas
· Nassar Ibrahim (AIC)
· Coalition of Women for Peace representative
· Dr. Naim Abu Teir (
Bisan
Center
for Research and Development)
· Moderator: To be announced
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–17:00
Bilbao
Initiative: A Joint Strategic Alternative
· Brief presentation of
Bilbao
document and background:
Sergio Yahni
(AIC)
· Short interventions by:
o Alternative Tourism Group representative
o Health Work Committees representative
o
Golan Heights
representative
o OPGAI representative
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This seminar is supported by:
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