Meetings & Workshops

Participants: Frans Potuyt, Head, Representative Office, Kingdom of Netherlands, Ramallah.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Göan Berg, Swedish Consul General, Jerusalem.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Fayaz Manji, Program Officer, Peace Building & Human Security Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada; Charlotte Garay, Special Projects-West Bank & Gaza And Israel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canada; Alistair Wallbaum, Political Officer, Representative Office of Canada, Ramallah.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Brainstorming session with : Ali Safarini, Lawyer ; Dr. Faisal Awartani, General Man­ager of Alpha International for Polling, Research & Informatics; Dr. Ayman Yousef, Birzeit University; Mahdi Abdul Hadi and Hijazi Natsheh, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Fadia Daibes, Water Law Specialist; Suleiman Abu Dayyeh, Palestine Desk Fredreich Naumann Foundation, Jerusalem; Master Sheng Yen, Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association, USA; Mohammed & Sa’eda Nusseibeh, Ad-Dar Hotel; Azzam Al-Khatib, Director, Jerusalem Islamic Waqf; Yukako Nimi-Arti; Swami Veda Bharati, Hindu Monk, The Meditation Center, USA; Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp, Rabbi; Adnan Husseini, General Director of Jerusalem Islamic Waqf; Guo Yao Fa Shi Chang Ji Shi, Personal Attendant & English Secretary to Master Sheng Yen; Mae Chee Sansanee, Founder and Director of Sathira Dhammasthan, Buddhist Leader, Thailand; Madhu Sawlaey, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, World Council of Religious Leaders; Janki Kripalani, Brahma Kumaris Tram, UK; Dayananda Saraswati, All India Movement for Seva, Inc., India; Usama Salman, Director, St. Vincent Association, Jerusalem; Hanlie Booysen, Deputy Head, South Africa Representative Office; Walid Shomaly, Excutive Director, Palestinian Center for Research & Cultural Dialogue, Bethlehem; Mohammed Hussein, Director, Al-Aqsa Mosque; Nader Al-Asar, Consul, Egyptian Embassy, Tel-Aviv; Azzam Abu As-Su’oud, Director of the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Director, Chautauqua Institution, USA; Sister Joan Chittister, Executive Director, Benetvision, USA; Phra Thepsophon, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Thailand; Lalit Kumar Bakashi, President, Golden Eagle Group Co. Ltd., Japan; Charles Mendies, India; Setsuko Nakanishi, Japan; Bawa Jain, Secretary General, World Council of Religious Leaders, USA; Mahmoud Abu Rmeileh, Nick Kardahji, Sana’ Shannak & Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Steven Hibbard, Head, Canadian Representative Office; Canadian Journalists from Quebec: Claude Hamel, reporter for Reseau de I'information; Jonathan Trudel, reporter for the bi-monthly magazine L'actualite; Sophie Thibault, editor of a free weekly newspaper, ICI; Serge Truffaut, editorialist for Le Devoir; Philippe Elharrar, Director of Public Affairs, Quebec Israel Committee.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Speakers: Dr. Sari Hanafi, Director of The Palestinian Diaspora & Refugee Center –Shaml, Ramallah.

Participants: Ahmad Hamarshah, Ministry of Education & Higher Education; Nazmi Harb, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics; Ziad Shari’ah, Netherlands Representative Office; Maher Zahaikah, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities; Iyad Masrouji, Masrouji Company; A’laa Lahlouh, Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research; Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mughrabi, Refugee Research Center, Al-Quds University; Fouz Khalifah, Ministry of Local Government; Faisal Awartani, Birzeit University; Mahmoud Radwan, Union of Youth Centers; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA; Hijazi Natsheh, PASSIA; Areej Al-Yousef, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Speakers: Meron Benvenisti, Historian.

Participants: Terry Bullata, Head, Board of Trustees Women’s Studies Center & New Generation School; Avishai Margalit, Professor, Hebrew University; Manuel Hassassian, Executive Vice-President, Bethlehem University; Father Rafiq Khoury, Latin Patriarchate; Sami Abu Dayyeh, Businessman; Amit Leshem, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem; Itzhaq Galnoor, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem; Diana Buttu, Legal Advisor, PLO Negotiation Support Unit; Hanlie Booysen, Deputy Representative, South Africa Representative Office, Ramallah; Nora Carmi, Coordinator, Women’s Program, Sabeel, Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jerusalem; Ahmed Ghneim, Member of Fateh Higher Committee; Samir Huleileh, Sales and Marketing Manager, Nassar Investment Company, Bethlehem; Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA, Jerusalem; Nick Kardahji, PASSIA, Jerusalem.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Chuck Hunter, Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs, US Consulate, Jerusalem .

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Speakers: Jamal El-Shobaki

Participants: Isam A’qel, Executive Director, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities; Yousef Abu Sway, Ministry of Local Government; Nadia Hajal, Gender, Law & Development; Yasser A’wad; Iyad Masrouji, General Manager, Masrouji Company; Firas Tanineh, Al-Ayyam Newspaper, Saudi Arabia News Agency; Latifa Al-Hawari, General Manager, Teachers Union; Wafa Hamayel, Coordinator, Prime Minister Office; Dr. Atef Alawneh, Deputy, Ministry of Finance; Fathi Bothieh, Mayor, Kifl Haris Municipality; Fadia Daibes, Water Expert, Consulting Company; Salem Ash-Shobaki; Azmi Ash-Shu’aybi, Palestinian Legislative Council member; Burhan Jarrar, Palestinian Legislative Council member; Shifa’ Jayousy, Local Rural Development Program, UNDP; Maher Zhaikeh, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities; Ahmad Abu Laban, Ramallah Municipality; Fida’ Shihadeh, Panorama; Rami Mihdawi, Panorama; Siham Al-Bargouthy, Palestinian Federation of Woman’s Action; Dr. Ayman Yousef, Birzeit University; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA; Areej Al-Yousef, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Speakers: Dr. Ayman Yousef, Birzeit University

Participants: Wafa’ Abdul Rahman, Miftah; Ahmed Badawi, SWP, Berlin; Badia’ Abu Ar-Rub, Lecturer; Lily Habash, Consultant; Abdul Rahman M. Mughrabi, Al-Quds University; Diab Jarrar, Al-Quds University; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, PASSIA; Areej Al-Yousef, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Matthias Finken, Counselor, Political Affairs, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Tel Aviv.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Andrea Nahles, member of the Board of the Socialdemocratic Party in Germany (SPD); Rainer Zimmer-Winkel, Center for Encounters and Communication Honoring the Heritage of Willy Brandt, Jerusalem; Michéle Auga, Resident Representative Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Jerusalem; Elisabeth Peterson, Project Coordinator Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Jerusalem.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Speakers: Dr. Nadim Rouhana, Director of MADA (Center for Applied Social Research), Haifa, Sociology lecturer, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Alberto Ucelay, Deputy Consul General, Spanish Consulate, Jerusalem
Dr. Ladislav Venys, Director, Center for Democracy and Free Enterprise, Prague, The Czech Republic
Dr. Pallo Jordan, Member of the South African Parliament & African National Congress (ANC), Western Cape, South Africa

Participants: Radim PECL, Head of Representative Office of the Czech Republic; Hania Toubas; Hadeel Qazzaz, Program Coordinator, Heinrich Böll Foundation; Faisal Awartani, General Manager, Alpha International, Ramallah; Sari Hanafi, Shaml; Ghada Saman, Employee, Financial Ministry; Nadia Hajal, MA Student; Hiba Husseini, Lawyer; Hisham Awartani, Professor; Hanlie Booysen, Deputy Representative, South Africa; Abdul Rahman Magrab, Professor; Elisabeth Petersen, Program Manager, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung; Dr. Ayman Yousef, PhD Political Science; Basima Zaroor, Coordinator for Al-Muntada; Phadime Choshane, Third Secretary (Political), South Africa Representative Office; Dr. Mufeed Shami; Bassma Khoury, Projects Coordinator, Birzeit University; Elise Aghazarian; Nibal Khalil, Anthropologist; Jamie Welling, Special Project Coordinator, Al-Mustakbal Foundation; Mohammed Rafique Gangat, Head, South African Representative Office; Chris Mohale, Counsellor (Political), South African Representative Office; Amneh Ma’bad, Lawyer, Al-Haq; Dr. Niall Holohan, Head Irish Representative Office; Majed Abbadi; Adnan Dagher, Journalist; Dr. Taleb Awad, Researcher; Rauf Malki, Architect; Dr. Abdullah Fannoon, Engineer, Planner; Layla Al-Zubidi, Researcher, Information Manager; Katherine Metres Abbadi, Human Rights Researcher; Moheeb Bargoty, Journalist; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA; Deniz Altayli, PASSIA; Sana’ Shannak, PASSIA; Hijazi Natsheh, PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA

Participants: Karim Palant, Labour Student National Chair; James Lloyd, National Union of Students Executive; Carli Harper-Penman, National Union of Students; Kirsten Jongberg, President of the Guild of Students, Birmingham University; Bob Inder Singh, British Organization of Sikh Students; Rami Okasha, Labour Students; Luciana Berger, Union of Jewish Students; Sam Dobbyn, Conservative Future UK; Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA.

All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA