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Cleveland, October 2010

¡ MissionWorks !. The Middle East I live in: A journey of peace and dialogue By Jean-Paul Chami. Cleveland, October 2010. Introduction. Introduction. Validating your experiences and sharing some of mine On Lebanon Story of the creation of Lebanon

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Cleveland, October 2010

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  1. ¡ MissionWorks ! The Middle East I live in: A journey of peace and dialogue By Jean-Paul Chami Cleveland, October 2010

  2. Introduction

  3. Introduction • Validating your experiences and sharing some of mine • On Lebanon • Story of the creation of Lebanon • A Mosaic of different cultures and faiths • A power vacuum in the region

  4. Introduction • What is FDCD? • New mission, vision and values • Youth and women • Program 1: Interfaith dialogue (i.e. Int’l Work and Study Camp) • Program 2: Peacebuilding (i.e. Conflict Resolution in Iraq) • Program 3: Human rights and citizenship

  5. Personal Experiences

  6. Personal experiences “The conflicts that we are able to handle the best are our own…” - DavinBremmer - 1989: “My daily routine” during the Christian civil war in Beirut

  7. Personal experiences “a healing experience…” - Story of Ziad from Iraq -

  8. Personal experiences “a momentum for reconciliation” - Story of Khaled from Iraq -

  9. Personal experiences “a chance for changing perspectives…” - Story of Mohammed from Lebanon -

  10. Lessons from the field

  11. Lessons from the field “Go to the people, Live with them Learn from them , Love them Start with what they know Build with what they have But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say: "We have done this ourselves” - Lao Tzu-

  12. Lessons from the field “A frog’s eye view versus a bird’s eye view…” - Kai Jacobsen -

  13. Lessons from the field “We do not learn from experiences… We learn from reflecting on experiences.” - John Dewey -

  14. Lessons from the field “Let your actions speak so loud that no one can hear your words” - Mary Levy -

  15. Lessons from the field “We can discover more about a person during one hour of play than in one year of conversation” - Plato - “Don’t do anything unless it’s play” - Marshall Rosenberg -

  16. On interfaith dialogue

  17. On interfaith dialogue Video Time !

  18. On interfaith dialogue Interfaith Dialogue is… Interfaith Dialogue is NOT… • Interfaith dialogue is a WAY OF LIFE and a LEARNING JOURNEY • Deeper understanding of one’s own faith • Improved communication skills • Interfaith dialogue WORKS ! • Interfaith dialogue is about empathy • Interfaith dialogue is NOT about the content as much as it is about the process of dialoguing • Interfaith dialogue is not the melting of religions into one but the affirmation of the specificities of each religion and learning to accept it

  19. On interfaith dialogue Extremism versus the silent masses “Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature” - George Bernard Shaw -

  20. On interfaith dialogue Religions: philosophy versus practice: “The Cat that that was tethered” - Swami Sukhabodhananda - Philosophy versus Rituals

  21. On interfaith dialogue “With tolerance comes hesitation” - A friend - • “Where there is complete truth, there is no peace. And where there is peace, there is no complete truth” - Babylonian heritage -

  22. Thank You Jean-Paul Chami T: +961-1-399-133 M: +961-3-721-801 jp.fdcd@gmail.com

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