Event Title
Embracing Israel/Palestine - A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Description
Rabbi Lerner will examine how the mutual demonization and discounting of each side's legitimate needs drives the antagonism and explore the underlying psychological dynamics fueling the seeming intransigence on both sides. He argues that additional peace talks would be "virtually pointless" unless they are preceded and accompanied by a sustained campaign to change the way each side demeans and dehumanizes the other. Lerner's approach focuses on the pernicious effects of post-traumatic stress among Israelis and Palestinians. He takes inspiration from past movements to change public consciousness and argues that a fundamental transformation in consciousness is needed. How can we in the West help shape a global transformation in consciousness (and changes in foreign and domestic policies) that is needed to provide security, justice, and mutual compassion necessary for a lasting peace?
About the Lecturer: Michael Lerner, Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley; Editor of Tikkun, a Jewish magazine, Chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives
Document Type
Event
Start Date
11-4-2012 12:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2012 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace; Conflict management--Middle east; West Bank--Ethnic relations; Jewish-Arab relations
Geographic Coverage
Middle East
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Israel/Palestine, Middle East peace talks
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Embracing Israel/Palestine - A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Rabbi Lerner will examine how the mutual demonization and discounting of each side's legitimate needs drives the antagonism and explore the underlying psychological dynamics fueling the seeming intransigence on both sides. He argues that additional peace talks would be "virtually pointless" unless they are preceded and accompanied by a sustained campaign to change the way each side demeans and dehumanizes the other. Lerner's approach focuses on the pernicious effects of post-traumatic stress among Israelis and Palestinians. He takes inspiration from past movements to change public consciousness and argues that a fundamental transformation in consciousness is needed. How can we in the West help shape a global transformation in consciousness (and changes in foreign and domestic policies) that is needed to provide security, justice, and mutual compassion necessary for a lasting peace?
About the Lecturer: Michael Lerner, Rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue in Berkeley; Editor of Tikkun, a Jewish magazine, Chair of the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives
