I came back from the U.S. at the beginning of 2004. Immediately I focused my work on establishing a different approach, promoting the use of nonviolence by associating it with the Palestinian resistance movements. I developed a five-day nonviolence\/conflict transformation training that focuses on the Palestinian culture and experience.<\/p>\n
During the past two years, I conducted more than 50 trainings in several locations in the West Bank , training more than 2000 persons. I really believe that I managed to create a different understanding of nonviolence wherever I worked. My experience was that this unique and special approach brought many people from different villages to request these nonviolence trainings.<\/p>\n
In the past two years, I assisted in planning and leading a number of non-violent activities, including one on Land Day, March 30, and another one on Palm Sunday. Both were based in Bethlehem . Both addressed the injustice of the Wall being built around Bethlehem and the land confiscated by the Israeli military force.<\/p>\n
Besides conducting the nonviolence trainings, I worked on developing a manual for training of trainers. I just finished the first training of trainers program that lasted for a year. This will help to spread the knowledge and expertise needed to promote the use of nonviolence. Currently there are more than 30 qualified nonviolence\/conflict transformation trainers from different areas of the West Bank .<\/p>\n
One more interest: a group of Palestinians who had been Fulbright Scholars met and founded a Fulbright Alumni Association, and I was elected president for the first year. We plan to hold an annual meeting for networking and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3343,"template":"","regions":[1376],"fields-of-practice":[1148,773],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1158],"class_list":["post-1466","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-palestine","fields-of-practice-mediation-facilitation","fields-of-practice-strategic-peacebuilding","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1158"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}