SDDP Act Beyond Borders Vision Building in Larnaca in 2010
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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 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 of the interactive co-laboratory collected a total of 69 descriptors. In the next step, a smaller group of the participants clustered all ideas. The following ten clusters were formed:
Cluster 1: Freedom of Movement
Cluster 2: Sustainable Future for Israel
Cluster 3: Civil Society
Cluster 4: Equality and Self-determination
Cluster 5: Controversial Issues
Cluster 6: Allocation of Priorities
Cluster 7: Economic Cooperation
Cluster 9: Coexistence Tools
Cluster 10: No More War
Having classified all ideas according to the clusters, all participants voted for their most favourable descriptors. The votes were widely spread among most of the descriptors. The descriptors that received the most votes were:
Descriptor# 50 (12 votes): The Palestinian refugees will return.
Descriptor# 9 (10 votes): Moving from one city to other without wasting time at checkpoints.
Descriptor# 7 (8 votes): Each people dealing with the problems and desires independently but with cooperation and mutual assistance.
Descriptor# 68 (7 votes): A major decrease of both nationalism and religiosity ideas and perceptions of life among people of both sides.
Descriptor# 36 (6 votes): Israel and Palestine will be a major player in the world economy.
Descriptor# 60 (6 votes): After one year from now we will not see any Palestinian in Israeli prisons.
The voting results were used to select ideas for the subsequent structuring process which resulted in the creation of what is called ‘a tree of influences', shown below.
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).
Participants
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
