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Reclaiming peace from patriarchal frameworks of security - Institute of Development Studies

Reclaiming peace from patriarchal frameworks of security - Institute of Development Studies
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Sofya Shahab - Institute of Development Studies

Undergraduates have embraced social media as a platform to comment on Israel and Palestine Should we?

While social media activism can lend credence to absolutist viewpoints, it is often the only tool for disenfranchised and minority opinion groups.

Harvard grad became a Jewish voice for Uighur justice – The Forward

Until two years ago, Amitai Abouzaglo didn’t know about the Uighurs. Today, he’s leading an advocacy movement within the Jewish world on their behalf. In 2018, Abouzaglo, then a Harvard University student, was invited to the Oslo Freedom Forum which discusses human rights and brings in activists from around the world. The conference changed his life. Before that, he had been focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A course Abouzaglo took during the conference focused on human rights in China and the general community rights within it. Abouzaglo met Nori Terkel, a prominent Uighur American lawyer and human rights advocate.

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They actively bring Israelis and Palestinians together  because they understand that it is only at that one-on-one level that change can happen. But I wondered how this slow and small trickle could create enough of an effect or create enough momentum to make a bigger impact. When I read how author Yossi Klein Halevi invitation to dialogue after the first edition of his book Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor came out was answered by Professor Mohammed Dajani Douadi, who authored his own approach to education called Wasatia (Moderation), I wrote about their vision. And started daydreaming about how the two could spear a much needed movement.

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