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Inter-Religious Dialogue
Since
summer 2007, CCRR is one of the partner organizations working on the
establishment of interreligious dialogue structures between religious
leaders from Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The project is carried out
in cooperation with the Arab Educational Institute (AEI) and the Rabbi's
for Human rights (RHR) and will be conducted over a period of three
years. The results of the dialogue are expected to be published and
contribute to influence the perception of the other religions in each
community. The project's goals are to strengthen the dialogue structures
between the Palestinian and Israeli civil societies, to reduce conflict
potentials inside the societies in Palestine and Israel, and to identify
religion as a mean to contribute to a culture of non-violence and thus
advance the prospect for a just peace in Palestine.
CCRR
will coordinate the Islamic participants to the dialogue. CCRR sees this
project as a logical following of its experience and will build on the
past project "Islam and Peace", which aimed at creating an ownership
towards a culture of non-violence, reconciliation and equal rights in
Palestine, through a network of Sheikhs discussing the role of
non-violence in Islam during several workshops in 2006. A publication,
"Islam and Peace" came out from the project and is being widely
distributed since its publication in 2007.
Religious leaders from each community will
come together and discuss theological questions which influence the
vision of the other religion and thus have a negative impact on the
conflict. The multireligious meetings will be preceded by several
unireligious meetings with various constituencies, giving the
participants of each community the opportunity to define their
priorities for the dialogue based on their experience and to exchange
between themselves about how they experience the other religions in
their daily activities.
The interreligious dialogue will run until the
end of 2010 and is funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation
and Development. The three local partners will be working closely with
the German Development Service, Pax Christi and the Forum CPS.
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