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Hometown:: Summit County, CO

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My personal story:: I've always been interested in understanding people who are different from me. Since graduate school that interest has focused more and more on the cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. It is my passion to build cross-cultural understanding through personal relationships.

Why I want peace:: Peace is an action. Each moment, each encounter, each relationship is an opportunity to build peace. When we reach out to each other with openness, seek authentic communication and understanding, and get to know each other, this is building peace. I want peace because it's possible!

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At 10:50pm on May 30, 2008, Rob Schrama said…: The ‘Big Hug’ and the future of Jerusalem

The sting of all problems between Israeli and Palestinians lays in the Old City of Jerusalem. Her status has to be solved in such a way, that all parties fighting for control over her can agree upon.

On June 24, the ‘Big Hug’ will be hold in Jerusalem. Light workers from Israel, Palestine and from all over the world, ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’, will come together to bring warmth and energy to this city, embracing holding hands the Old City. If we bundle all our positive energies and bring these to Jerusalem, we can create peace to this exceptional place.

We are organizing the Big Hug to make the people aware –especially the Israeli and Palestinian inhabitants of Jerusalem- that there is a very shaped perspective for the city of Jerusalem as a city of peace: a new, undivided Jerusalem, as the capital of Palestine, Israel and at large.

Let go of the conflict concerning her command and dedicate the city to the Omnipresent. The Old City as a whole is His Temple. To give the walled Old City free to God, as a "Status Apart”, as an independent city, will be the most feasible way to come out the current impasse.

The Old City of Jerusalem must become an open city; a House of Prayer for all the Peoples. This perspective is written down in the Holy Books, this is the perspective we, as ‘Lovers of Jerusalem’ embrace as well as solution. But how many people does already notice this hopeful point of view?

What I saw in Jerusalem and also everywhere else where I meet Islamic and Jewish people is, that not so many persons really think about a future for Jerusalem. Most of the time, they stick with old ideas that the Old City of Jerusalem will always remain a part of Israel, or in opposite, that it will be absolutely a part of a new Palestinian state, as stolen land that has to be given back. With these visions, a future Jerusalem will be a divided city with an East Palestinian and West Israeli part, with barbed wire and checkpoints in between, like the situation of the city from 1948-1967. Or, coming closer to an agreement, people suggest -like proposed in the “Geneva Accord” in 2003- to make a complicated dividing of the Old City in a Israeli and Palestinian part. That will mean that the small alleys will be split by walls and barriers too. The idea that a future Jerusalem will become a divided city, is something that we have to prevent.

There are living about 250.000 Palestinian and 500.000 Israeli rather close together in one city. Do they want to make a separation of Jerusalem in parts or do they choose, deep in their hearts, for unity? So my best friends, it is our task to inform the whole city that there is an alternative for the Jerusalem of today.

All lovers of a united Jerusalem will come together to encircle and embrace the Old City of Jerusalem with love and devotion. We have to encourage all inhabitants of Jerusalem to join the coming Big Hug, with the idea of a New Jerusalem that might be realized with their support.

Rob Schrama Phone:0031-646608660 www.loversofjerusalem.org

At 2:50pm on November 28, 2007, Jessica Johnston said…: Hi Molly,

You may already know about it, but just in case it’s something that would benefit you…

www.globalpeacebuilders.org

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At 4:11am on October 1, 2007, Jeff Rudy said…: Hello Molly,

Where Peace Lives is dedicated to creating cross cultural understanding through its art and media projects for children around the world.

I am the co-founder of Where Peace Lives, as non-porfit out of Red Bank, NJ dedicated to creating a new conversation for peace (see my forum conversation"Saying something new" on the Where Peace Lives Group on this site. Please alos join my group.

The Kids International Peace Mural Project has reached Ghana, Peru, Egypt, Costa Rica, Sierre Leone, Florida, New York and New Jersey. We just completed the first exchance with a school in suez, Egypt and one in Somerset, NJ.

I look forward to your friendship and partnership that empowers children to declare the type of world they want to grow up in knowing their voices will be heard.

Sincerely,
Jeff Rudy
Development Director
Where Peace Lives
www.wherepeacelives
wherepeacelives1@yahoo.com

At 9:55am on August 21, 2007, Eyal Raviv said…: Molly, thanks for persisting in signing up. I know there was a sign-in issue. It has been resolved.

Eyal :-)