Peacecamp 2007

Name: Hyam Tannous, Haifa
hyamATnetvision.net.il
Nationality: Arab, Christian.
Degree: M.A. counseling

Career: Senior Supervisor in counseling, in charge of 140 counselors in the Galil Area. 95% of my counselors are woman.
Lecturer at Haifa University in training counselor, I teach a course” in Narrative Therapy.
Chairman of the commettee "Multi Cultural, and multi National Mediation” in the Psychological and counseling department Department.
The commettee deals with conflict resolution, and provides initial programs orientation, and skill building workshops .

Qualified trainer in conflict resolution, and trainer in "the narrative Therapy in a multi cultural society”. I participated in August 2002 at a conference in Chicago lecturing about the contribution of the Narrative Therapy in resolving conflicts between the Arabs and the Israelies .


Activities: Member at the vocational commette for Academic Education
in Haifa, also a member in several commettees that work to promote the Israeli Palestinian Dialogue.
I have the pleasure to work with Father Emil Shoufany and to be the person who has connected between Emil and Ruth Bar Shalev ,( the two persons who planned the trip to Aushvitz Polin in May 2003. The objective of the journey was to comprehend the jewish pain from the jewish perspective and to understand the jewish narrative in order to communicate on a human level.

Member with a group of 25 Jewish and Arab women who believe in the capacity and in the power of love , deep responsibility and commitment to give life. Our objective is to create a mutual thought and a shared language, to initiate actions in our society to impliment a new reality according to our vision.

Austria

Evelyn Böhmer-Laufer
peacecamp-director
bohmerATutanet.at
1090 Wien, Fechtergasse 16/1
Tel.: +43-1- 315 19 10
www.psyweb.at/boehmer-laufer


Ronny Böhmer:
peacecamp-administrator
ronaldoATutanet.at

Evelyn Sponer
coordinator Austrian group
1180 Wien, Antonigasse50/7
0650-6066302
taek wan do-trainer
elfeATmyself.com

Hungary

Szilvi Kneusel
coordinator Hungarian group
16. Lázár st. Budapest, 1065 Hungary

30.09.1976, Budapest
PHOHE: (00361)3326-124
FAX : (00361) 3324-671
dukayneATfreemail.hu

Israeli- Arab group

Faisal Taha: headmaster Galil High School
054-5419321


Hyam Tannous, Arab Christian
Sderot Hatzionout 84A, Haifa
hyamATnetvision.net.il
Tel.: 050 628 28 39
04 852 76 79


SARAHNA GASSOUB: accompanying adult
522272665


Israeli-Jewish group


Mrs. OSNAT OKNIN: accompanying adult


Hila Risel: coordinates Jewish-Israeli goerup in Yagut School
hilaATcarmel.zvulun.k12.il


Irit Leviatan: preparation with jewish pupils in Yagour school
iritleviatanATgmail.com
Tel.: 04-8254810
050-6-283508

Mira Yuval: Headmaster Yagour School
miraATcarmel.zvulun.k12.il
054 683 30 38


Workshop-leaders:

Rhythm&Movement:
linda frey: linda.freyATchello.at 06507767264


maria moritz maria_moritzATyahoo.de 0650 3307812


Singing:


Hannibal Means
hannibal_meansATyahoo.com 0650 6804035


large group:
dr. silvio gutkowski: silviogATzahav.net.il 02 671 62 64 050 690 62 64

I am Evelyn. I am Israeli , I am Austrian, I am Jewish, I am an adult, I am a mother, I am a wife, I am a citizen and am now living in Vienna.
I love the sea, the sun, warm weather, I love my husband, my daughter Lia, I love Israel, I love Vienna, I love my job and I love young people.
I have organized a number of peacecamps since 2004 with varying partners from Jewish and Palestinian neigbourhoods in Israel and from European countries - Slovenia, Hungary and Austria.
I was always concerned about wars, terror, about the Holocaust and all the man-made catastrophies that people have brought upon themselves in the course of human history. When I was a child, I used to dream about a world in which there would be no borders between the countries, in which people would be free to move about the globe and live wherever they wanted and pleased. I was always asking my parents and teachers why there were wars and how one could abolish them, but the adults I was asking did not know the answers. When I became an adult, I decided that I should ask kids rather than adults, because wars are made by adults and maybe the young would know how to make peace.
I often thought that there is so much hatred and violence in the world because our parents and grandparents have been victims of wars, terror, violence and injustice and are so full with resentment and anger and pass it on to their children; when these children become adults they will also be ready to hate and to kill, just as their parents, and when we ask them why they do this, they will say that they are only taking revenge for what was done to their parents or grandparents.
I therefore decided to offer young people of different cultural background an opportunity to meet and talk and learn about one another, and make their own mind about things that they were told by the grown ups.
I actually believe that young people are sometimes more clever, more creative and more inventive than grown up people. Maybe they can find the answers to the questions that the grown ups are unable to answer or even to ask.

I am therefore very much looking forward to
peacecamp 2007.

cu soon,
Evelyn
bohmerATutanet.at