SDDP Act Beyond Borders Vision Building in Larnaca in 2010

Vision of “what ought to be” Report Title SDDP Act Beyond Borders Vision Building (Larnaka 2010) Project SDDP Triggering Question “What are descriptors of a mutually beneficial co-existence of Israelis and Palestinians?” Dates 24th - 31th February 2010 Total Duration 6 days Statistics Participants=21 Number of ideas=69 Number of Clusters=10 Ideas received Votes=6

Executive Summary

This report was prepared in the context of the project “Human Rights and Reconciliation – Civil Society Acts Beyond Borders’.

The project brought together stakeholders from Israel and the Palestinian Territories with the view of facilitating the peaceful conciliation and management of group interests and promoting solutions on divisive matters or controversial areas.

The participants of the SDD co-laboratory are: Abeer George Youssef Awwad - Palestinian Aia Harel - Israeli Anat Romberg - Israeli Dar Nadler - Israeli David Swissa - Israeli Erez Naar - Israeli Hana Azmi Al-Atrash - Palestinian Husam Hussein m. almeghari - Palestinian Itamar Tas - Israeli Iyad m. a. faqih - Palestinian Jehonatan Golany - Israeli Karin Reingewertz- Israeli Lior Reshef Deri- Israeli Majd Jammal - Palestinian Manal Isam Ali Ghaben - Palestinian Qais Osama Abdel rahman Maghary - Palestinian Roi Shindler - Israeli Shadi ahmad Abdullah alassi - Palestinian Simon Dabit - Palestinian Yasmin Celine Confino - Israeli Ziyad mohmd mohmd alaydi - Palestinian

The Triggering Question (TQ) was
“What are descriptors of a mutually beneficial co-existence of Israelis and Palestinians?”

In response to the TQ, the 21 participants came up with 69 mechanisms, which were categorized in 10 clusters. Following the voting process, 6 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the 'Tree of Influence' shown below.

Influence tree on the mechanisms that would ensure successful technology transfer in accessible and assistive ICT products and services.

According to the participants of this workshop, the characteristics appear to be the most influential were:

• Mechanism #1, Big delay in decision making from the governmental side

The participants had time to discuss and reflect on the influence map and in general agreed that the arrows in the map made sense to them. In sum, the participants reported their satisfaction that their voices have been heard and documented and communicated their expectations for follow-up activities to address the diagnosis of their needs.

The workshop was facilitated by Elena Aristodemou (CNTI), Aleco Christakis and Georgina Siitta Achilleos (CNTI).

External Links

• CARDIAC Website