INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, 18 April 2007

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Time

Activity

Title

8-10 am

Registration

 

10:00

The Palestinian National Anthem, Welcome & Greeting, Bil’in Popular Committee
Representative of President Mahmoud Abbas

 

10:10

Opening Address: Mairead McGuire

"Nonviolence – the way forward for the Human family".

10:30

Azmi Bishara - Arab Member of Knesset

 

10:50

Luisa Morgantini

 

11:10

History of Bil’in’s Nonviolent Resistance

Bil'in Popular Committee, Mohammad Khatib

11:30

Break

 

12:00

Stephan Hessel

“The impunity of Israel and the responsibility of the international community in that issue"

12:15

Jean-Claude Lefort

Double standard particularly in the present situation in Palestine

12:30

Report & Panel from the Palestinian-Palestinian Conference on Non Violence.

Mohammad Elias

1:45

Lunch

 

2:45

Amira Hass, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti

Media 

4:00

Break

 

4:15

Ilan Pappe, Omar Barghouthi 

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

5:30

Break

 

5:45- 6:15

Final Remarks

 

6:15

Rest & Fun, Dinner with Families

 

8:30- 10:00

Films & Dabka

 

Day Two     

THURSDAY, 19 April 2007

Time

Activity

Who is arranging it?

9:00

Welcome, Announcements

 

9:15

Jeff Helper, Mikado Warshofsky and Auri Avniri

 

10:30-
11:45

Panel: George S Rishmawi, Sam Bahour, Mohamed Shtaye

Economic Independence

11:45

Break

 

12:15-

WORKSHOPS:
1- Bil’in Development
2- BDS
3- BDS
4- Media
5- Pal-Isr Joint Struggle [Hanna & Mohammad]
6- Palestinian Recommendations from the Palestinian conference
7- Palestinian Recommendations from the Palestinian conference
8- International experiences in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

 

2:00

Lunch

 

3:00

Country Meetings

 

4:00

Palestinian, Israeli, International Nonviolence Trainings

 

6:30

Closing

 

7:00

Rest & Fun, Dinner with Families

 

Third Day: Friday April 20th 2007

Friday Morning:  Meetings with Bil’in Popular Committee
1:00   Action


Names of the Speakers:

  • Dr. Azmi Bishara, Palestinian Israeli Knesset member
  • Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  • Dr. Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
  • Luisa Morgantini, Italian EU Parliament member and Peace Activist
  • Stéphane Hessel, former French Ambassador
  • Jean-Claude Lefort, French parliament member
  • Amira Haas, author and journalist, Ha'aretz
  • Sam Bahour, Palestinian activist and entrepreneur
  • Representatives of the Bil'in Popular Committee

For more information, please contact contact@bilin-village.org