To include representatives of organizations working on conflict resolution and peace-building including:

Permanent Peace Movement – Lebanon,
We’am Center in Bethlehem,
The Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue,
The Mennonite Central Committee – Lebanon,
The Fellowship of Reconciliation – Lebanon,
Media Center for Arab Women – Jordan
Al-Liqa’ Center in Bethlehem

along with representatives of churches, church-related organization, civil society and human rights organizations, women’s organizations, and theological institutes – both Muslim and Christian. Furthermore, in the regional reach of the FDCD, these seminars will include speakers and participants from Cyprus who have been working on bi-communal activities for the past time, and have been activities-communal activities in the village of Pyla.

Theme for the regional seminar are:

• 2004: justice and human security, a international conventions and grassroots application of human rights principles (proposed location, Amman, Jordan)
• 2005: restorative justice, compensation and reconciliation – what religions say about forgiveness (proposed location Limassol, Cyprus)

7 local training workshops, 3 days each, with the intent of transferring knowledge of conflict resolution training to the trainees. These would take place in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Cyprus and Palestine, and the basic ideas addressed in these workshops include:

• Analyzing and understanding conflict
• Conflict resolution methodologies (the UN system, tribal mediation, international arbitration)
• Dialogue and communication skills and techniques