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Hometown:: Kibbutz

Relationship Status:: Married

My personal story:: Julia Chaitin received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology (in the Department of Behavioral Sciences) from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. Her research has three main foci: (1) the long–term psychosocial impact of the Holocaust on survivors and their families and on young adults; (2) joint Palestinian–Israeli psychosocial research and (3) issues of ethnic belonging and identity among refugee/immigrant populations. Dr. Chaitin specializes in qualitative research, basing her work on narrative research, ethnography, storytelling and inter–group facilitation. She has published extensively in these fields. In 2001–2002, Chaitin held the Lentz Post Doctoral Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. From 2003–2006, she was Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies at Nova Southeastern University in Florida. Dr. Chaitin is currently a Senior Lecturer in the department of Social Work at the Sapir College in Israel and on staff at the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development (NISPED). She continues to be active in peace and social justice work.

Why I want peace:: It's the only way to live in dignity

Birthday:: Oct 1952

Interests and activities:: walking, traveling, gardening, music

Something you didn't know about me:: many things

How I found mepeace.org:: invited to join

What I want to achieve here:: Meet like-minded people

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At 1:17pm on May 30th, 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 10:00pm on May 25th, 2008, Mahmoud said…: hi
welcome

At 9:51am on May 15th, 2008, Donna Qawasmi said…: hi Julia

welcome to mepeace ... very great life story you are doing amazing work .. Glad to have you with us

peace

Donna QAWASMI

At 11:32pm on May 14th, 2008, Eyal Raviv said…: Welcome Julia,
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At 7:59pm on May 14th, 2008, Saeed Az. said…: Hi Julia,

How are you? You have great profile. Are you still work in AJEEC?

I think that I know you.

Saeed

At 7:02pm on May 14th, 2008, Julia Chaitin said…: The Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development - NISPED - should be added to the groups. The website: www.nisped.org.il. Here is some background information:
In January 1998, the Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development was founded. NISPED is a registered non-profit association that works in association with the Sapir Academic College. Certificates of the college are awarded to participants who successfully complete relevant programs of study.

NISPED was established with a view to promoting peace and development. Its focus is on civil society: the voluntary, people-centered, non-governmental groups and organizations concerned with conflict-resolution and the advancement of sustainable human development.

NISPED focuses on societies undergoing transformation; we work with societies moving from conflict to conflict resolution; from dictatorship to democracy; from poverty and dependence to selfhood; from societies that discriminate against minorities to societies that extend full human, social, economic and civil rights to all; and with societies that work toward sustainable human development.

To these ends, NISPED conducts international, regional and local activities in the following areas: Training, Projects and Consultancy

NISPED undertakes work within Israel, in the Middle East and internationally through its 3 major divisions:

AJEEC -
The Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation

ICECOS - The International Center for Cooperative Studies focuses on the promotion and development of cooperatives and of people-centered enterprises in Israel, the Middle East and in the world.

INCEP-SME - The International Center for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (INCEP-SME)