Project Interchange: Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center Connection Via Jerusalem Old City Initiative Into AJC By The Numbers Summary

Project Interchange:

Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
Connection

Via

"Jerusalem Old City Initiative"

With

Some Of The

"AJC By The Numbers" Friends-


Javier Solana, high representative for the common
foreign and security policy of the European Union,
addresses the dedication dinner of the Transatlantic
Institute, in 2004. Taken from AJC By The Numbers

Pope Benedict XVI and Rabbi David Rosen,
AJC director of international interreligious affairs,
greet each other in St. Peter’s Square. Taken from AJC By The Numbers


Shuffling through the Funding Partners of the "Jerusalem Old City Initiative" (JOCI), one of its members caught my eye.

Moti Cristal: Expert in conflict management and a fellow at the Institute for Counterterrorism at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, he has experience as a member of Israeli negotiating teams during peace talks with the Palestinian Authority.


His name takes us yet to another initiative in Israel called "Project Interchange".


Cross referencing Project Interchange with Javier Solana took me to an interesting executive summary from the "The American Jewish Committee" called AJC By The Numbers.

This, Letter From a Diplomatic Marathoner,

David A. Harris, Executive Director, American Jewish Committee, October 13, 2003,

sheds a little more light into The Europe-NATO-Israel Triangle, Transatlantic Relations.

The Jerusalem Old City Initiative and Search For Common Ground Update

SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Program Update October 2006

Since 1991, Search for Common Ground has conducted a multi-track program to promote
peace, cooperation, and security in the Middle East. We contribute to these goals through
developing independent media and civil society, using the media to discuss critical issues, and
convening regional dialogues and building regional cooperation.

Holy Sites Initiative: To empower and mobilize Middle Eastern religious leaders as
peacemakers, we are facilitating a process which will result in leaders of the three Abrahamic faiths signing a declaration that recognizes and respects the attachments of the three faiths to their respective holy sites in Jerusalem and the setting up of an inter-religious standing committee to deal with potential crises in a peaceful manner. As part of this process, we are partnering with
Catholic University, Washington D.C. in a Holy Sites workshop in November whose purpose is to
clarify religious laws and customs relating to graves and cemeteries within Christianity, Islam and
Judaism and to offer opportunities for dialogue between religious leaders, legal experts and
activists.

The Jerusalem Old City Initiative: This initiative aims to build workable solutions on the future
of the Old City by advancing practical cooperation and improving conditions on the ground
through addressing the wide-ranging needs of stakeholders in the Old City. A second goal is to
provoke rigorous discussion about future governance options for the Old City and to generate new
possibilities and ways of thinking, through public education and advocacy.

The Jerusalem Old City Initiative

Project Overview

Mission Statement:The Jerusalem Old City Initiative will develop creative options for the governance and management of the Old City of Jerusalem in preparation for a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians. The powerful symbolic and emotional attachment which these two peoples have for the Old City and its holy sites requires careful preparatory work and discussion in order to create possible paths to a just and lasting peace. In encouraging dialogue and academic discussions on key issues that are critical to national and religious aspirations of all involved parties, a foundation can be established on which further political negotiations can be based. Working with Israeli, Palestinian and international civil society partners, the Canadian team will provide leadership and coordination in developing and implementing research, dialogue, advocacy and policy option identification relating to the critical issues that affect a settlement over the Old City.

The Jerusalem Old City Security Assessment
November 2007

The Jerusalem Old City Initiative
Discussion Document
New Directions for Deliberation
and Dialogue

Search For Common Ground, Bill Clinton's Global Initiatives and The Holy Sites (in Jerusalem) Initiative

Clinton Global Initiative
with
"Search For Common Ground"
Births
"The Holy Sites Initiative"
in
Jerusalem.

To provide funding for select projects to further efforts in peace and reconciliation projects. “The Holy Sites Initiative”, lead by Search for Common Ground (SFCG), aims to allow key Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders to find common ground regarding the holy sites in the Holy Land.

World Economic Forum Funds "Search For Common Ground" Under "West - Islamic World Dialogue" Projects C-100

World Economic Forum

Funds

"Search For Common Ground"

Under

West - Islamic World Dialogue Projects

West and Islam Dialogue

Community of West and Islam Dialogue (C-100)

Promoting dialogue and cooperation between the Western and Islamic worlds

Search for Common Ground: Media Outreach for Reconciliation Activists

U.S. Muslim Engagement Project Goes To New York Synagogue Tomorrow Nite

Search for Common Ground: Can the United States and the Muslim World Find Common Ground?

When: 02/26/2008 - 7 — 9 pm
Where: Central Synagogue, Administration Offices, Joslin Hall , 123 East 55th Street, New York, NY 10022-3566

Search for Common Ground (SFCG) and the Consensus Building Institute have been working with an eminent, diverse group of Americans over the past year to create a new approach for the U.S. to work with Muslims worldwide to pursue peaceful co-existence.

This group includes

former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright;

former Ambassador Dennis Ross;

former U.S. Representatives Vin Weber and Steve Bartlett;

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf;

former AIPAC Executive Director Tom Dine;

Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention,

and many other leaders from the fields of business, politics, diplomacy, religion, psychology, and other sectors.

Rob Fersh, Executive Director of SFCG-USA and Co-Director of the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, will join us on February 26 to describe this group's extraordinary effort and will preview the groundbreaking report that the group will issue this spring.

The Brookings Institution: What Does God Have to Do with It? The Links Between Religion, Radicalism and Violence

What Does God Have to Do with It? The Links Between Religion, Radicalism and Violence

Event Summary

Until recently, scholars of religion had predicted that as societies modernize, God would become obsolete. Yet today, religion is enjoying a global resurgence. Aside from continental Europe, the majority of the world’s inhabitants attends religious services more regularly, and claims to believe more fervently. At the same time, ideologically-inspired violence – both terrorism and war – is also on the rise. Clearly, faith in God is playing a large and mounting role in both private life and contemporary politics.

The Brookings Institution: NATO And Afghanistan Forging The 21st Centruy Alliance

Afghanistan and NATO: Forging the 21st Century Alliance -- An Address by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

On February 29, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings will welcome NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a discussion on the effectiveness of the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan and what is needed to achieve success for NATO and the international community as a whole. The NATO secretary general will also preview the upcoming Bucharest summit, which will be crucial to the future of the international effort in Afghanistan, as well as a milestone in NATO's ongoing transformation.