Journal of the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change, an interorganizational project of the Organization Development Institute
Vol. XXIV, No.2 Compiled February 1, 2010 Winter 2010
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
(pdf file available) – Note: Page Numbers Refer to the PDF Version
Online Version Table of Contents
Editor’s Comments
Nonviolent Change on the Web
Upcoming Events p…3
Ongoing Activities p…5
World Developments p..14
DIALOGUING:
Mediators Beyond Borders (MBB) Letter On Mediation in New Climate Treaty p..82
International Planning Group – for Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Justice, “Disarm Now!
Mobilizing Call of the NPT Review 2010” p..83
Harry Targ, “End the War in Afghanistan Now” p..85
Rene Wadlow, “Peacebuilding in Eastern Congo: Need for Reconciliation Bridge-Builders” p..86
Uri Avnery, “A Line in the Sand” p..86
Ziad Asali, “New negotiations will test Netanyahu’s commitment” p..88
Gershon Baskin, ”Encountering peace: In the land of miracles, let’s get real” p..90
Ephraim Sneh, “The third Mideast option” p..91
Ghassan Rubeiz, “Need for U.S.-sponsored Arab-Israeli deal” p..92
Meron Rapoport, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem“ p..93
Uri Avnery, “Boycott – an act of despair” p..94
Sam Bahour, “The Elders‚ next move“ p..95
Alon Ben-Meir, “’Supporting Fayyad’s Vision” p..96
Daoud Kuttab, “Fayyad’s brilliant plan for Palestinian statehood” p..98
Uri Avnery, “The Drama and the Farce” p..99
Aziz Abu Sarah, “What can Palestinians learn from the American civil rights movement?
Appealing to the Jewish conscience” p.101
Alon Ben-Meir, “Mending a Strained Alliance” p.102
Rana Sabbagh-Gargour, “What next for Jordan?” p.103
Adam Keller, “Another day in the Eternal Capital” p.104
Towards the EU ministers’ meeting in Brussels, Gush Shalom calls upon them to proclaim Jerusalem
as the capital of two states p.105
Letter of The Academic Network on Security Privatization – Chapter Colombia, on the implications and
risks within the military agreement being negotiated with the United States p.105
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, “The Philippine politics: guns, goons, gold and the war on terror” p.107
What We Readers Are About p.108
ARTICLES:
Michael N. Nagler, “Afghanistan: What Would a Real Policy Look Like?” p.109
Stephen Zunes, “Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground” p.110
Stephen Zunes, “Showdown in ‘Teguci golpe ‘” p.113
Rene Wadlow, “New Energy for a Nuclear-weapon-free World” p.117
Uri Avnery, “The Iron Wall” p.118
Amal Abu Zeidan, “A need to re-evaluate Jewish-Arab action and dialogue groups in Israel” p.120
Marzuq Halabi, “From a language of solutions to a language of reconciliation” p.121
Shelley Ostroff, “Revisiting nationalism in the Palestinian-Israeli relationship” p.122
Michael Lame, “Words matter” p.123
Michal Haramati, “Memories of a graduate of the Israeli mainstream school system” p.124
Khaled Abu Asbah, “The Israeli education system and the question of shared citizenship” p.126
Barry Leff, “Israeli and Palestinian views of history and the search for peace“ p.127
Alon Ben-Meir, “The Prospect for a Breakthrough” p.128
Hussein Ibish, “A new U.S. perspective on Middle East peace” p.131
Ron Pundak, “The Oslo legacy” p.132
Larry Derfner, “Rattling the cage: Go for it, Abbas!” p.133
Daoud Kuttab, “External interference a major obstacle to Palestinian reconciliation” p.134
Ghassan Rubeiz, “J Street and the ATFP are norm breakers” p.135
Elza Maalouf, “6th convention Fateh’s and the building of a nation” p.136
Kobi Skolnick. “The need for an engagement plan” p.137
Arab News Editorial p.138
Subhash Chandra, “’Ahimsa’ – Culture of Nonviolence: Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in 21st Century” p.139
Media Notes p.142
Announcements p.149
COEDITORS:
Stephen Sachs, 1916 San Pedro, NE. Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505)265-9388, ssachs@earthlink.net
Alon Ben-Meir, NYU (212)866-5998, alon@alonben-meir.com
Ruby Quail, Web Master, Albuquerque, NM rubyquail12345 @12345 gmail.com
Robert W. Hotes, American College of Counselors, 824 S. Park Ave., Springfield, IL 62704 (217)698-7668,
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NONVIOLENT CHANGE JOURNAL (NCJ) ON THE WEB
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EDITORS COMMENTS
Wishing you a fine New Year and New Decade. 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 (ssachs@earthlink.net).
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, 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 much 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, DonWCole@aol.com, http://www.odinstitute.org/, who is coordinating networking among organizations.
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