[Note from Kathie Malley-Morrison: Today, October 21, is Conflict Resolution Day, established by the Association for Conflict Resolution to “promote awareness of mediation, arbitration, conciliation and other creative, peaceful means of resolving conflict.” Conceived in 2005, Conflict Resolution Day has been celebrated on the third Thursday of October since 2006. This year, events are jointly sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace.
[In honor of this day, we present the second in an intermittent series of “stories of engagement,” case examples from morally engaged workers for peace. Today we welcome guest contributor, Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz, a member of GIPGAP who co-authored the Israel chapter in State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People.]
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