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A common history, an extraordinary future
VI.
TIPP Initiatives
Initiative
One: To create (or cause to be created)
a common historical narrative representative of the national stories of both
the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.
Initiative
One is quickly reaching fulfillment. A final draft of the common historical narrative,
finalized by the creation team in 2009, has now been reviewed by Israeli and
Palestinian historians for historical accuracy and acceptance by their
respective mainstream communities. A review board of Israeli and Palestinian
people will provide additional acceptance or corrections to our work and
approve the final version. The initiative is fulfilled when prominent Israeli
and Palestinian personages, at a signing ceremony attended by international
media (thus ensuring that the signing becomes a powerful and globally
recognized event), will ceremoniously endorse the completed document.
The
common historical narrative, written as a popular accessible story, consists of
25 chapters linking the origins of the two peoples to the events of the present
day (click HERE to view a sample of the draft narrative).
The narrative is the work of a creation team anchored by the primary authors of
the narrative, a Palestinian journalist and an Israeli major in the Israeli Defense
Forces.
International
members of the writer’s team include a linguistics expert based in
The
narrative was created through intense, facilitated collaboration – sometimes including
highly charged verbal encounters. For all of those involved, it was truly
remarkable and inspiring to witness a common historical narrative emerging that
is acceptable to the two principal authors representing
Initiative
Two: To have the common historical
narrative recognized by the mainstream populations of
This
initiative is the focus of TIPP in 2010. For the common narrative to act as an
agent of transformation, it is first necessary to expose the narrative widely
to the mainstream populations of
Upon
completion of Initiative One, the narrative will be published as a short book,
principally in Arabic and Hebrew to be easily accessible to the two mainstream
populations. It will also be published in English and in age-appropriate
editions for children in schools. The books will then be widely promoted and
distributed in
Initiative
Three: Building on the acceptance of the common
historical narrative, to cause a transformation of the source
of the
We assert that
transformation is the creation of a new and previously unavailable arena of
possibility, brought to life through guided conversation. Through a program of workshops
conducted throughout Israel and Palestine, participants who have read the
narrative will lay the past to rest in such a way that a new space – a “clearing”
– will be created in which unprecedented possibilities for the relationship
between the two peoples can be invented. Such possibilities can then be
realized through the inspired action of communities emerging from the workshops
and taking on the revitalization of public dialogue freed from the constraints
of the past.
Within
this context, we assert that a whole new body of thought and action will emerge,
the result of a transformation of the human spirit. The outcome will be the
transformation of the two societies in ways hitherto not possible, clearing the
path to the possibility of true reconciliation and a vibrant future of mutual social
and economic prosperity.
Initiative
Three also looks resolutely to the future, the children of
Initiative
Four: To create strategic alliances
with all other organizations committed to equitable and enduring relationships of mutual
honor and respect between peoples. in Israel-Palestine and throughout the world.
The
conversations that support the long
standing relationship between
Under
Initiative Four, TIPP will reach out to form alliances with a broad spectrum of
organizations within
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