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SUMMARY:MEPEACE Chat - January 8
DESCRIPTION:Event link: http://mepeace.org/events/mepeace-chat-january
 -8  You are cordially invited to take part in the first workshop in o
 ur new three-part series on the topic 'Freedom and Peace'. The worksho
 p will begin on Sunday, January 8 at 20.00 Jerusalem time in the MEPEA
 CE Chat.  Freedom is a highly controversial and ambiguous concept. Whi
 le we all might agree that there cannot be lasting peace, not even ser
 ious efforts at conflict mitigation, without a certain notion of freed
 om, we may at the same have very different notions of what freedom act
 ually is, what it is supposed to be, what it is supposed to entail. Be
 sides that, we can distinguish between several different kinds of free
 dom. There is personal freedom, economic freedom and political freedom
 , for instance. And there is positive and negative freedom (a distinct
 ion - conceptualized by the political thinker Isiah Berlin - we're als
 o going to talk about in the workshop). We might have a bias towards a
  specific kind of freedom, and this bias might narrow our view on the 
 other available and desirable 'freedoms'.\n This Chat Workshop will st
 art with a 'blank page'. That means that we do not pretend to know wha
 t freedom is, we do not pretend to really know what it means for us an
 d our fellow human beings, and we have no common idea why and how it c
 ould be important for conflict mitigation and management, and finally 
 peace. Our goal is to find a definition we all can live with, even if 
 that may mean that each of us has to make some kind of compromise, for
  the sake of accomplishing a basis for mutual understanding and co-exi
 stence. The main objective of this three-workshop series is to figure 
 out a kind of 'freedom' that is of advantage to all citizens instead o
 f working for the benefit of only one group in society, or a small pri
 vileged elite.\n\nLet's learn from each other, let's be teachers and s
 tudents at the same time, and hopefully, in the end, find a sort of co
 nsensus on a working definition of freedom in relation to conflict mit
 igation. After this workshop, which will, as stated above, be the firs
 t in a three-part series, everybody is encouraged to delve deeper into
  the topic, by highlighting the topic in a discussion, by writing a bl
 og about freedom and what it can mean for conflict mitigation, or just
  by chatting with fellow peacemakers about it. Your action after each 
 workshop is also a good basis for the respective upcoming workshops in
  the series, which will focus on 'freedom' in relation to conflict mit
 igation in the Middle East in particular.  During the workshop, we hop
 e to find meaningful answers to the following questions:  What is free
 dom?  Why might it be difficult to find a common definition of what fr
 eedom is supposed to be?  How does freedom relate to conflict mitigati
 on and conflict management, and, in the end, peace?\n\n---------------
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 --\n\nPlease note that the event will start on Sunday, January 8, 2011
  at 20.00 Jerusalem time, in the MEPEACE Chat.  If you have any questi
 ons regarding the event, please don't hesitate to contact the event mo
 derator Oliver Haack at oliver@mepeace.org.  We are looking forward to
  your participation!  The MEPEACE Events Team\n\nFor more information 
 visit http://mepeace.org/events/mepeace-chat-january-8
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CATEGORIES:mepeace, chat, workshop, freedom, peace, conflict, mitigati
 on, management, mutual, understanding, coexistence
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