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Young people hold Middle East peace talks online
by Ian Deitch
The Associated Press Translate This Article
19 May 2014
JERUSALEM (AP) - With the collapse of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, hundreds of thousands of young people across the Middle East are talking reconciliation online, a former Israeli peace negotiator and founder of the movement said Monday.
Uri Savir, himself an ex-peace negotiator between Israel and the Palestinians and founder of 'Yala Young Leaders,' said the size and scope of his group shows that young people in the Middle East want peace. 'The peace process continues online,' he said.
The Facebook group, which has backing from celebrities including Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Sharon Stone, has attracted almost 500,000 followers from around the region, including youths in the Palestinian territories, Egypt and Muslim countries that have no relations with Israel.
The group will hold an annual virtual peace conference on Sunday that will include video presentations by Nobel Peace laureates Israeli President Shimon Peres and Desmond Tutu as well as senior EU, US and Palestinian officials. Letters written by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be published on the site.
Savir served as an Israeli negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians in the 1990's known as the Oslo Accords, after the secret talks in Norway that preceded them, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up autonomous zones for the Palestinians.
The landmark talks ultimately failed to yield a final peace agreement. Two decades and several rounds of violence later, peace remains elusive and U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down last month.
'The young generation in the Middle East is sick of the decisions of their leaders and are very disappointed that the talks stopped,' Savir said. 'They have a say in this because it is the young people who are sent to the front lines if there is a war,' he said.
'Young people in the Middle East want peace talks to succeed,' Savir added. He said his site is a 'very innovative public diplomacy tool that will in time influence governments.'
The 'Yala Young Leaders' group has an online university that teaches peace and reconciliation studies with lectures by officials with real experience in negotiating conflicts in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Rwanda, the Balkans as well as between Israel and the Palestinians and elsewhere.
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