SPEAKERS:

Naim Ateek-Palestinian Anglican priest, founder/director of the Sabeel
Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem,author of Justice and Only
Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation and A Palestinian Christian Cry
for Reconciliation.

Mark Braverman-Jewish American with
deep family roots in the Holy Land. Trained as a clinical psychologist, Mark
now devotes himself full-time to the cause for peace in historic Palestine. In
his work he focuses on the role of religious beliefs and theology in the
current discourse on Israel/Palestine and the future of interfaith relations.

Don WagneR-The Rev. Donald
“Don” Wagner is professor of religion and Middle Eastern studies at
North Park University in Chicago and executive director of the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies. He is author of Anxious for Armageddon (1995) and Dying
in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost
to 2000 (2003).

Huwaida Arraf-Palestinian Christian
who chairs the Free Gaza Movement,  the
organization behind the Gaza Freedom Flotillas. 
She is also a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement whose
mission is to resist the Israeli occupation using nonviolent tactics. She is
married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both were
working at the Jerusalem center of Seeds of Peace, an organization that seeks
to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.

Craig and Cindy Corrie-They are the parents of Rachel Corrie of Olympia, WA, who
was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah Camp, Gaza Strip, in March 2003.
They have taken up their daughter’s cause, making it their own through The
Rachel Corrie Foundation.

Fouzi Slisli–Dr. Slisli
is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Relations and
Multicultural Education at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.  Hi s areas of specialization include: Colonial
and Imperial History; Race in Modern History; Islam and politics.

WORKSHOPS
(subject to change)

Minnesota BDS
Campaign, Sylvia Schwartz

J Street,
Advocacy by the US Jewish Community, Barbara
Nordstrom Loeb

The Work and
Role of Christian Peacemakers, Diane
Roe

US Campaign to
End the Occupation, David Hosey

Gaza Today, Amal Ashour and
Friends

Ecumenical
Accompaniment and other Service Opportunities, Lynne Rigg

Seeds of Peace,
School for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, Eric Kapenga

Getting to Know
Each Other, (about Palestinian children for US children), Mary Davies