Vancouver, BC
Building Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians
The University of British Columbia and Peace it Together invite you to a free Pacific Dialogue event at UBC
7:30pm
Samedi Janvier 8 2011
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Featured presenters: Dr. Gershon Baskin and Dr. Sami Adwan will talk about their personal stories, and work for peace in the Middle East.Tickets: are free, and available at the door OR in advance at the Chan Centre Ticket Office from January 4, 2011 (hours of operation: 12pm to 5pm). There is a limit of 4 tickets per person.
Peace it Together Executive Director Reena Lazar will announce the summer 2011 film project at UBC to include 10 Palestinian, 10 Israeli and 10 Canadian university students.
Moderator, Stephen Owen, is UBC’s Vice President of External, Legal and Community Relations. He is a former Canadian cabinet minister and has worked on peace building projects in Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
Speaker Biographies:Dr. Sami Adwan
Dr. Sami Adwan is a Palestinian professor of education at Bethlehem University, and Co-director of the Peace Research institute in the Middle East (PRIME). His research focuses on the role of education in building peace, and co-existing between different beliefs and religions. Dr. Adwan and PRIME have won numerous international awards recognizing their peace-building efforts in the Middle East. He is well known for his and former Co-Director’s work titled “Learning Each Other’s Historical Narratives”, a high school text book that shows both the Israeli and the Palestinian narratives on key historical events. He is currently co-leading a joint Palestinian-Israeli research team to analyze Israeli and Palestinian text books from grades 1 to 12. PRIME is the Regional partner of the Peace it Together Society.
Dr. Gershon Baskin
Dr. Gershon Baskin is the Co-director and founder of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), a joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think and “do” tank in Jerusalem. He has a regular column in the Jerusalem Post, a weekly radio show in Hebrew on All for Peace Radio and has won numerous awards for his work. Before founding IPCRI he spent ten years of work in the field of Jewish-Arab relations within Israel, in Interns for Peace, the Ministry of Education and as Executive Director of the Institute for Education for Jewish-Arab Coexistence. Dr. Baskin has published books and hundreds of articles in the Hebrew, English and Arabic press about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. HE meets regularly with Israeli and Palestinian policy makers at their invitation.
Event Details:
Date & Time: January 8th, 2011 – 7:30pm
Location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Tickets: are free, and available at the door OR in advance at the Chan Centre Ticket Office from January 4, 2011 (hours of operation: 12pm to 5pm). There is a limit of 4 tickets per person.
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