Stories.

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Humans Without Borders: One Woman's Quest to Overcome the Divides of Occupation

Story of how one woman has struggled against injustice and formed the group 'Humans Without Borders', a grassroots NGO made up of Jewish Israeli volunteers who transport 600 children from Gaza and the West Bank to hospitals in Israel.

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Looking ahead to 2018 with OneVoice

Video interview with John Lydon of OneVoice as he explains their work through the parallel organizations OneVoice Israel and OneVoicePalestine.

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Rabbis for Human Rights and The Struggle for Justice in East Jerusalem

Video report on the work in East Jerusalem of the Israeli peacebuilding organisation, Rabbis for Human Rights, as they fight for the rights of Palestinians facing evictions from their homes.

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The Parents Circle and Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation

Siham Abu Awad discusses how her life changed when her brother Yousef was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Her political activist mother, who'd spent four years in jail, brought her and her remaining brothers to Parent's Circle, a remarkable organisation that brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families.

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Wi'am: Helping the people of Bethlehem see Stars not Bars

How Wia'm mediates community conflicts in Bethlehem to stop them escalating by using a traditional Arabic process of reconciliation called Sulha

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From the editors

Combatants for Peace tour of the UK (July 2010)

The peacebuilding organisation Combatants for Peace will be taking part in a number of public events in the UK from July 24-30. The Combatants for Peace movement was started in 2005 by Palestinians who had been part of the violent struggle against the occupation and Israelis who had fought in the Israeli army. Having put down their arms, Combatants for Peace members are engaged in a non-violent struggle against the Israeli occupation and for a viable peace in the area. They are committed to using dialogue and reconciliation as a way to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem, alongside the State of Israel.

Events will be held in the Warrington, Coventry and London. The visit is being coordinated by Encounters, an arts group that specialises in designing and delivering tailor made participatory arts projects and interventions that inspire creativity, dialogue and exchange between people of all ages and cultures. For further information on the Combatants for Peace events, visit this page.