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 | Promoting
    Interreligious Understanding The Only Solution is a Just Peace The Challenges of
    "Tikkun Olam" | 
   
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 | Building Bridges to Bethlehem  13 palästinensische Jugendliche aus Bethlehem
    verbrachten die ersten zwei Wochen im Juli 2007 in Österreich. Das Projekt
    entstand aus einer Kooperation der Organisationen „Service for Peace“, Föderation
    für Weltfrieden und Österreichische Frauenföderation mit der Unterstützung
    der palästinensischen Gemeinde.  | 
   
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 | “Peace,Shaloam, Salaam Alaikum” at the
    United Nations One
    good salvaged from the horrors of World War II is Pax Christi
    International, The Peace of Christ, a Catholic peace movement founded by a
    French Catholic woman, Marie-Marthe Dortel Claudot, in the months after the
    war ended.  | 
   
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 | United Nations
    Missions Briefed on Middle East Peace InitiativeThe UPF took the opportunity to brief representatives from 22 missions
    about its work in the Middle East and around the world.The Kenyan
    Ambassador to the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Zachary Muburi-Muita spoke
    movingly of his experiences during the recent MEPI.
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 | Cracking the Walls of
    Hate and FearWe can break this endless cycle of revenge,
    retaliation and punishment, the only way to do it is to listen to the pain
    of the other,” said Rami Elhanan, an Israeli Jew whose fourteen-year-old
    daughter was killed in a suicide attack in Jerusalem.
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 | MEPI, Tel Aviv
    Conference, February 11th 2007 Ambassadors for Peace from 12 Eastern and Western
    European nations converged in Israel for the February Middle East
    Peace Initiative in a very diverse and accomplished group of 34, including
    ministers, professors, parliamentarians, the head of an NGO, human rights
    activists and journalists.  | 
   
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 | Visit to AL-TARIQ The
    Way, Ramallah, 21st October 2006 During the
    latest Middle East Peace Inititiative the group from Europe
    received a presentation on the hopeful work of Al-Tariq, The Palestinian
    Institution for Development and Democracy. | 
   
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 | 21st-25th
    August 2006    18th
    MEPI: May 18-25th 2006   Middle East Peace
    Initiative - Europe | 
   
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 | Es gibt etwas anderes als Krieg und Gewalt
    (9.-16. Juli 2006)Palästinensische Jugendliche aus Ost-Jerusalem trafen sich vom in einem
    Sommercamp mit Mitgliedern der öst. Jugendgruppe HARP.
 Projekt baut Brücken zwischen Österreich und Palästina
    (APA) Alpine
    summer camp brings Jerusalemites, Austrian youth together | 
   
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 | Jewish-Christian
    Dialogue  The
    second Jewish-Christian Dialogue of the Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI)
    of the Universal Peace Federation took place from May 17-18, 2006 in the
    beautiful Olive Tree Hotel, 10 minutes from the Damascus gate of Old
    Jerusalem city.    | 
   
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 | Jerusalem - March
    2006: Middle East Peace Symposium Just
    before our visit a crisis emerged in Jericho. Despite being the very people
    being sought as hostages Ambassadors for Peace showed their courage and
    came to Jerusalem and continued with their tour. Jewish-Christian
    Dialogue    | 
   
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 | Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI): May 10-16, 2005A conference entitled, 'Innovative Approaches to Lasting Peace and Stability
    in the Middle East,' included delegates from the former World War II
    enemies America, Germany, Italy, France, England, Korea, China, Japan and
    several other European countries..
 177 Leaders, Clergy from 27
    Countries Confer on Interfaith Peace in Jerusalem
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 | The
    Role of Jordan: Realizing Enduring Peace in the Middle East: March 30 -
    April 2, 2005  Amman
    Conference  The
    Jordan Declaration  | 
   
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 | Middle East Peace Initiative - Sept 2004The "World Peace Pilgrimage" in September 2004 in Jerusalem was a major
    initiative of MEPI that has involved people of all professional fields
    including religion, politics, media, academia, business and civil society
    from over 147 nations.
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 | Building Trust With
    Religious Leaders in The Holy Land To make peace, the most
    serious task is to bring understanding and dialogue among religious leaders
    of all faiths.
 From vengeance against Jews to
    Islamic-Judaic harmony | 
   
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 | Heart to Heart for the Peace in the Middle East, December 22 2003: Religious, political, NGOs, students and other
    social representatives from 50 nations of the world, with Israeli and
    Palestine citizens around 10000 people, gathered at Independence Park in
    Jerusalem for "Peace Rally" on December 22, 2003. | 
   
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 |  September 2003: 500 Jewish, Moslem and Christian religious leaders
    march hand in hand in first-time-ever Interreligious Peace March in
    Jerusalem  Gemeinsamer
    Friedensmarsch von Juden, Christen und Muslimen zu den heiligen Stätten in
    Jerusalem |