Jerusalem PeaceMakers promoting the empowerment of Indigenous Peoples at the Tel Sheva Bedouin Village, June 2006
“If peace and reconciliation can be achieved in the Holy Land, it can be achieved anywhere.”
Sheik Abdul Aziz Buchari
Jerusalem Peacemakers promotes enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, creating cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Holy Land and all living beings.
Jerusalem Peacemakers is a network of independent interfaith peace-builders dedicated to encouraging understanding and reconciliation in the Holy Land.
Jerusalem Peacemakers are dedicated to crossing divides, encouraging understanding and bringing people together
Jerusalem Peacemakers contribute to peace with justice and a decent life for all people in the Holy Land.
Jerusalem Peacemakers are people supporting people, with a humanitarian and interfaith emphasis.
Jerusalem Peacemakers work together to help loosen up rigid beliefs, bridge the gulf between peoples, and to help people recognize they’re we are all in this together and that polarization and violence do not work.
Jerusalem Peacemakers evolved from the work of theCreative Health Network, which ran international healing summits and supported humanitarians in the 1990s.
Specific aims:
• to provide information for the public worldwide
• to back up peacemakers in their travels and outreach
• to channel human, practical and financial support
• to help dialogue, visiting and contact
Jerusalem Peacemakers Our History
Over twelve years a constellation of peacemakers and social healers has grown up as a result of conferences and events run by the Creative Health Network, led by Suzanne Keehn in California and Pam Perry in Britain.
On the buildup of the second intifada in the Holy Land, around 2000, a network of independent peacemakers formed in the Holy Land. Cooperation and mutual visits started up between these two groups.
Early in 2002 Creative Health Network ran a gathering in Glastonbury, UK. There was a feeling that world events had taken a turn for the worse. We had reached an impasse.
When Sheikh Bukhari and Eliyahu McLean visited Glastonbury in January 2004, something ‘clicked’. Jerusalem Peacemakers was born.
It started as a joint project of three people in England and three in the Holy Land, and it has grown from there.
Jerusalem Peacemakers enables the coming-together of people to support each other in difficult times.
