‘Obstacles and chances for an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace’

Invitation to students to participate to the round-table conference in The Hague.

Herewith we have the pleasure of inviting you to attend the roundtable conference on ‘Obstacles and chances for an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace’, that International Dialogues Foundation (IDF) will organize in partnership with the influential quarterly Palestine-Israeli Journal (PIJ) and Locomotive Organisation the 20 November in the Pax Christi Church in The Hague. This initiative is part of the three years program of conferences and roundtables Justice and Peace in Israel/Palestine.  Students from different University of the Netherlands can have the possibility to be part of one of the most relevant dialogues for peace.

The meeting will consist of four brainstorm sessions on respectively Gaza, the role of Europe, Settlements, Water, Right of return and Jerusalem. The brainstorm discussions  will be introduced with speeches by Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan University in Israel, who Played an active role in the Geneva Initiative, and Mouin Rabbani, independent consultant in Ramalla, who was associated for a long time to the International Crisis Group (ICG). Other main speakers are ProfessorMoshe Maoz, Israeli expert on Islam, who has been teaching at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Harvard University and Oxford University; and the two editors in chief of PIJ Ziad Abu Zayyad and Hillel Schenker. The seesions will be chaired by members of the Advisory Committee of the Project: Wim Deetman (chair), Hedy d’ Ancona and Laurens Jan Brinkhorst.

The character of the roundtable discussions will be that of an open discussion in which no aspect will be avoided, but on the condition of an agreement that a serious discussion on the basis of the two state solution makes sense.

Ideas Magazine will be there to make a report of the event, Locomotive Organisation will be active part of the round-table dialogue.

To participate send an e-mail to belocomotive@gmail.com

Sincerely,

Gerben Meihuizen, Chairman a.i of IDF

Peter Idenburg, Coordinator www.internationaldialogues.nl

Your Locomotive Team www.belocomotive.org