The Israeli Occupation:
Its Damage to Palestinian Children,
Its Cost to Israeli Children
Conference Speakers Include:
Ivan Karakashian, Advocacy Unit Coordinator, Defence for Children International Palestine
Mads Gilbert, Director of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of North Norway, working in a Gaza hospital
Rev. Canon Naim Ateek, Founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jerusalem
Marty Federman, Jewish educator, Co-chair, American Jews for a Just Peace-Boston
Sahar Vardi, Israeli peace activist from Jerusalem
Devin Atallah, Research Fellow, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Haneen Haddad, Palestinian-American psychologist
Omar Barghouti, author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, a primer on nonviolent, human rights-based ways to seek justice in Israel and Palestine
Other Palestinian, Israeli and American peace activists
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Conference Schedule:
8:00-9:15 Registration
9:15 -9:45 Welcome and Opening Address
9:45-10:45 Military Detention of West Bank Children
11:00-12:00 Panel on Children's Psychological Trauma
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Damage to Gazan Children
2:00-3:00 Militarization of Israeli Children
3:15-5:00 What Can We Do?
After 5:00 Resource Room and Musical Performance