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
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
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.
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.
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
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 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
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.
“When you lose a child, at the same time, you also lose your fear. You no longer fear anything.”
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.
