Mid - East Peace and Dialog Resources
Organizations, Publications, Groups and E-mail Forums
Compiled by
The PEACE Mid East Dialog Group
See also http://www.mideastweb.org/megroups.htm
Comments/Additions/Updates are Welcome
| Group/Item | Description | Link/contact |
| Abraham Foundation | TBS | |
| Ada Aharoni | Prof. Aharoni of Haifa Israel promotes dialog through culture and organizes conferences on dialog and peace. | http://tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/home.html Ada Aharoni: ada@techunix.technion.ac.il |
| Al Haddaf Association | A peace center for children in the Old City of Jerusalem Israel (Palestine) run by Mr. Sandouka. They have no resources except good intentions and love. Please Help! Books, writing materials etc. will be greatly appreciated. | Al Haddaf Association, Al-Wad
Street, No. 134, Old City of Jerusalem, Israel. |
| Arabs and Jews Seeking Peace | Shalom-V-Salaam email moderated list. | Sherry Al Mufti umrayya@netvista.net David Albert dalbert@mail.la.utexas.edu David A. Guberman: guberman@mediaone.net |
| Ariga | Web domain devoted partly - and very whole heartedly - to nonpartisan peace efforts. | http://www.ariga.com Robert Rosenberg Robert@ariga.com |
| Art for Peace | On-Line Exhibition sponsored by Dr. Fisher (Israeli firm) | http://www.art-peace.co.il |
| Bay Area Alliance | Arab/Jewish Scientific cooperation and dialog group based at UC San Francisco in the bay area, California, USA | Jamil Kanaaneh E-mail: kanaaneh@cgl.ucsf.edu Naftali Kaminski kamins@itsa.ucsf.edu Dudy Tzfati E-mail: tzfati@cgl.ucsf.edu Naftali Kaminski MD Lung Biology Center, UCSF Box 0854 San Francisco, CA 94143 - 0854 Phone 415-2065902, 650-855-5667 E-mail kamins@itsa.ucsf.edu --------------------------------------------------- |
| B’tselem | Human rights organization that monitors building in Jerusalem etc. | http://btselem.netgate.net |
| Bat-Shalom | Feminist Israel/Palestine Womens Organization | http://www.batshalom.org |
| Building Bridges | Dialog and peace action group in Duluth Minnesota USA - Arabs and Jews who visited Israel/Palestine together and participated in dialog activities. | Gary Gordon: ggordon@css.edu |
| Cairo Peace | The Egyptian Peace Movement of Prof. Lotfi El Khouli created quite a controversy in coming out with a joint declaration with Israel's Peace Now organization. | Lotfy El-Khouly aawa@idsc.gov.eg |
| California Living Room Dialog | Len and Libby Traubman run this San Francisco California USA organization that has been an inspiration to Mid-East dialogs and peace efforts. Their Web page has links to many other peace and dialog groups. | http://www.igc.org/traubman/ Len & Libby Traubman: ltraubman@igc.org |
| Center for Bilingual Education in Israel | Israeli based organization sponsors bilingual schools for Jewish and Arab children. | Center for Bilingual Education in
Israel P.O. Box 9710, Jerusalem, Israel Tel. 972-2-641-1670, Fax 972-2-642-1314 e-mail lgordon@netvision.net.il |
| Chaim Herzog Center | Texts of all major treaties and U.N. Resolutions | http://www.bgu.ac.il/chcenter/ |
| Christian Peace Teams | CPT sends people to trouble spots (Hebron for example) where they try to promote peace and help the needy | cptheb@palnet.com |
| Committee for Safeguarding the Oslo Accords | Paris, France based group that has published newspaper advertisements urging support for the Oslo accords and continuation of the peace process. | oslo_Committee@geocities.com Izio Rosenman rosenman@gps.jussieu.fr http://come.to/Oslo.committee |
| Charlottesville Jewish-Palestinian dialogue group | New dialog group in Charlottesville Virginia USA | Heena Reiter reiter@cstone.net Virginia Tahboub (RManor6591@aol.com) |
| CJPD | Council on Jewish Palelestine Dialog - London England. Fosters dialog and joint social events. | Saida Nusseibeh: saida@globalnet.co.uk Tony Klug: TonyKlug@compuserve.com CJPD 17 Phillimore Gardens, London W8 7QG. Tel: 071-937 4587 Fax: 071-938 3216 |
| Compassionate Listening | Indianola Washington USA group that practices people-to-people diplomacy, bringing groups of American Jews and Arabs to Israel/Palestine to experience dialog. You can join too! | Leah Green, Director Compassionate Listening P.O. B. 17 Indianola, WA 98342 1- (360) 297-2280 |
| Cousins Club | Dialog and peace action group in Orange Co. California USA. Supports Hope Flowers school and other worthy projects. | Cousins Club of Orange County, Box
5891, Orange, California 92813. Ruth Shapin: Ssattorney@aol.com |
| Elias Chacour | TBS | |
| Fear Free Future | Also called 'Pieces for Peace' this is a unqiue project - A mosaic built of pieces contributes by Jewish and Arab Palestinian kids that will be erected in a peace park and grow and grow and grow. Please Help! - Thanks | Yael Nativ yanativ@mail.netvision.net.il
Phone: 972-9-7495619 (Israel) OR Noam Topelberg 972-9-9587845 (Israel) noam.topolberg@ipc.co.il Donations: Orly Senior-Niv 972-8- 928 6638 |
| Four Mothers Movement | Israeli group founded to get Israeli troops out of Lebanon | Linda Ben-Zvi: lindabz@post.tau.ac.il |
| Givat Haviva Peace Center | Papers and projects related to peace and co-existence. | http://www.inter.net.il/~givat_h/givat/g_table.htm |
| Gush Shalom | Founded by veteran peace activist Uri Avneri. | http://www.gush-shalom.org |
| Hope Flowers School | Bethlehem school that teaches the way of peace, non-violence and rapprochement. Volunteers and donations welcome and needed. It is the only school in Palestine (probably) that teaches Hebrew as part of the regular curriculum in both grade school and high school. Please Help! - Thanks | Donations (Tax deductible ) in
U.S.: Orange Country Middle East Peace Fund (marked Hope Flowers School) P.O.B. 5891 Orange, CA 92863 5891 OR: The Hope Flowers School, Acc't #118451 Mercantile Discount Bank, Bethlehem, West Bank via Israel. OR: registered mail to The Hope Flowers School POB 732 - Bethlehem-Palestine (Via Israel) http://www.samarkand.org/Hope%20flowers/HopeFlowindex.htm Gene Sandretto genesis@netvision.net.il Hussein Issa amalzh@hally.net |
| Infopal | Independent Palestinian News Service | Subscriptions- Write Subscribe
InfoPal [Your Name] in the body of an email mesage to Majordomo@PalVision.Net Inquiries:infopal@palvision.net |
| Interfaith Witness for Peace in the Middle East | USA group active in promoting peace and people to people dialog in the Middle East. | Alan Solomonw: asolomonow@afsc.org |
| IPCRI | Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. Jerusalem Israel and Bethlehem, Palestine. Studies of the refugee problem, final settlement attitudes, cooperation | http://www.ipcri.org Prof. Gershon Baskin peace@netvision.net.il Dr. Zakaria El Qaq peace2@netvision.net.il Palestine Street, El-Doha, Bethlehem Telephones: +972-2-277-6054/5/6 Fax: +972-2-277-6057 email: Peace@netvision.net.il IPCRI Education for Peace Project Office Dr. Marwan Darweish, Director 1 Nablus Road (Hindiyeh Building, East Jerusalem) Tel: 972-2-626-0481, 627-4382 Fax: 972-2-626-0480 |
| JADE | Jewish Arab Dialog and Education in Europe - Founded by pioneer dialog champion Saida Nusseibeh and others. This organization popularizes dialog and raises money for peace and peace education charities. | Saida Nusseibeh: saida@globalnet.co.uk |
| Jewish Peace Fellowship | Peace oriented group in USA | http://www.nonviolence.org//jpf |
| Jewish/Palestine dialog group in Switzerland | View and (and sign) their declaration regarding a final settlement. | http://www.access.ch/isra-pal-peace/ Peter Liatowisch isra-pal-peace@access.ch |
| Jewish Palestinian Encounter | On-Line discussion board - sometimes generates more heat than light, but a good place to meet people interested in dialog. | http://www.yudel.com/salam-shalom/salamforum1.htm |
| Meretz Party (Israel) | Hebrew and English: platform, opinion polls - write to Members of Knesset | http://www.meretz.org.il |
| MERIA | Mid-East Review of International Affairs - Electronic Journal - Jerusalem Israel | http://ww.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria.html Prof. Barry Rubin besa@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il |
| MideastWeb for Middle East Coexistence | Successor to PEACE Group | mew(at) mideastweb.org |
| MishMarot Hashalom | Meets each Friday at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. | http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3718/ShalomSite |
| Neve Shalom/Wahat El Salaam | Mixed Arab/Jewish village that hosts dialog groups. Recently graced by a visit from Hilary Clinton. Israelis who live in the Jerusalem corridor area can send their children to school there. | http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/nswas/ |
| New Israel Fund | New York, USA. Sponsors peace groups and activities | http://www.nif.org |
| Noor El Hussein Foundation | Amman, Jordan charitable foundation sponsored by H.M. Queen Noor, promotes peace projects as well. | TBS |
| World wide organization for Israeli - Palestinian Peace. | ||
| Open House | Ramlah, Israel Dialog between Israeli Jews and Arabs | Yehezkel and Dalia Landau ylandau@actcom.co.il 972-2- 642-3952. |
| Other Israel | Tel Aviv, Israel Leftist/ Peace Organization | http://members.tripod.com/~other_Israel Adam and Beate Keller otherisr@actcom.co.il |
| Oz ve Shalom | Oz ve Shalom is an Israeli religious group for peace, with a detailed peace settlement plan | http://www.ariga.com/ozveshalom |
| Palestine-Israel Journal | A unique joint Palestinian-Israeli print and electronic magazine. | http://www.pij.org/ |
| PEACE | E- Mail Mid-East Arab/Jewish Dialog
and Peace action group (Israel/Jordan). See www.ariga.com/peacewatch/story1.htm PEACE is us. We publish this page, PeaceWatch, news about dialog and views of PEACE participants. Please join and bring friends |
Ami Isseroff Contact Info POB 2493 Rehovot 76100 Israel Ameen Hannoun ash74@geocities.com www.ariga.com/dialog www.ariga.com/peacewatch Final Settlement Declaration: www.ariga.com/peacewatch/deceng.htm |
| Peaceworks | Jewish Arab cooperative project based in New York USA. -Foods for peace. Proceeds of this delicious enterprise go partly to help peace education. | http://www.peaceworks.com/ |
| Peace Now | Shalom Achshav, Israel’s oldest and largest peace movement | http://www.peace-now.org |
| Play for Peace | Peace education through play. | Craig Dobkin craig@playforpeace.org chdobkin@aol.com |
| Project for Arab-Jewish Dialogue | Dialog between students at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Ganl Israel and Al Quds University in East Jerusalem | Dr. Ben Mollov mollob@mail.biu.ac.il The Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan 52900 Israel Tel: 972-03-5318276 Fax: 972-03-5353329 Dr. Moussa Barhoum qudsou@palnet.com |
| Project Understanding | Monmouth County New Jersey dialog group for Arabs and Jews | Arnold Gelfman 1-732-224-2208 agelfman@brookdale.cc.nj.us Saliba Sarsar sarsar@mondec.monmouth.edu |
| PS Magazine | Long Island New York USA Progressive Jewish Magazine | http://www.psguide.com |
| Rapprochement Dialog Center | Palestinian Israeli group that holds dialog meetings in Beit Sahour, in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine. | Judith Green msgreen@mscc.huji.ac.il George Rishmawi pcr@p-ol.com |
| Re’ut Tsedaka | Dialog and joint activities for Jewish and Palestinian Youth | http://www.israelpages.co.il/reut |
| Seeds of Peace | Organization that runs Arab/Jewish summer camps and other projects promoting dialog and peace | seedspeace@aol.com |
| Shimon Peres Peace Center | Economic cooperation organization founded by the ex-prime-minister - also promotes education for peace and people to people efforts. | http://www.peres-center.co.il |
| Tikkun | Magazine of U.S. Progressive Jewish Movement | http://www.tikkun.org |
| WINDOWS | A magazine prepared by Israeli and Palestinian children in Hebrew and Arabic. WINDOWS also runs community dialog projects and a magazine for High School youth, Panim El Panim. Volunteers and donations welcome and needed | Ruth Atzmon 972-3-528-9183 winpeace@netvision.net.il snail mail: 'Chalonot-Afikim Letikshoret' P.O.B. 56096 Tel Aviv Mel Allerhandler AllerhandM@aol.com http://come.to/facetoface |
| WorldVision | Christian charity organization devoted to peace. | (Israeli offices) TBS |
| Yakar | Jerusalem, Israel group devoted to dialog | Benjamin Pogrund pogrund@actcom.co.il |