Amidst unimaginable loss, over 85 new families have joined the Parents Circle since October 7, 2023. Their membership helps to transform their grief into a powerful call for peace. Your support will help bereaved Israelis and Palestinians to strengthen the humanity in one another and become the courageous reconciliation leaders both sides so desperately need. … Continue reading The Newly Bereaved: From Mourning to Meaning
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[WEBINAR] Lights in the Darkness: Stories of Loss and Hope
Recording Available SoonPlease Check Back This past year, 85 newly bereaved families have joined the Parents Circle. Joining the Parents Circle, after paying such a heavy price, is a courageous choice and a commitment to reconciliation, dialogue and peace. These new members set a bright example during a horrific and brutal war, as hatred and … Continue reading [WEBINAR] Lights in the Darkness: Stories of Loss and Hope
Voices for Peace: Robi Damelin and Layla Alsheikh | Washington Post
Meet two peacemakers who will not let their voices be drowned out by the Oct.7 massacre or the death and destruction of the Israel-Gaza War.
Israeli and Palestinian moms know loss, work for peace | ABC
Robi Damelin and Layla Alsheikh, who each lost a son in the decades’ long conflict, are involved with Parents Circle, a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization made up of more than 700 bereaved families.
Grapevine: Nov. 17, 2024: An early start | Jerusalem Post
It is natural during war for opposing forces to hate each other whether they are combatants or not. But there are always exceptions – people who realize that war and its accompanying traumas seldom offer positive solutions
The Power of our Pain: Lessons from the Parents Circle | European Forum for Restorative Justice
In the face of deep-seated conflict, particularly one as longstanding and bitter as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many would assume that reconciliation is a distant hope, if not entirely impossible. But there exists a beacon of hope in the form of the Parents Circle.
Listening from the Heart Virtual Launch
Listening from the Heart Virtual Launch October 30, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuE8EscnNNs Thank you to everyone who joined us in launching Listening from the Heart. This program was built in response to cries for help from communities polarized around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is rooted in lessons of empathy and humanization we’ve learned over the years from … Continue reading Listening from the Heart Virtual Launch
Grapevine October 20, 2024: Hope and memory | Jerusalem Post
It’s one thing for Jews and Palestinians who have lost loved ones at each other’s hands to come together and seek a path to peace when things are relatively quiet, but it’s a much more difficult exercise during wartime.
Layla al-Sheikh and Robi Damelin, mothers (in mourning) for peace, to TPI: “No one kills in the name of our children” | Ruetir
“When you lose a child, at the same time, you also lose your fear. You no longer fear anything.”
Interview Bassam Aramin: In the Eye of the Storm | Novi Magazine
The man has the right to defend himself, not to occupy, says Palestinian Basam Aramin, a Muslim and a Peace activist in the Peace Fighters Movement , the main character in two documentaries and a novel.