Truth & Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East

The Truth & Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East was launched in 2008 by the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy to establish common ground and dialogue between the parties involved in Middle Eastern countries, calling for reconciliation between Israel and Palestine (based on a lasting, just, two state solution and total mutual nonviolence); the withdrawal of USA and UK troops from Iraq and their replacement by a UN peacekeeping force (made up from mostly Islamic countries); and the immediate total cessation of all acts of terrorism as non-Islamic (suicide is illegal in Islamic spiritual law).

The TRCME is also calling for a negotiated truce and peace agreement between all forces currently fighting in Afghanistan, and the replacement of the search for military solutions with the search for intellectual, educational, theological, spiritual and philosophical solutions. There is no reason why according to Islamic teachings, peace and reconciliation cannot be restored between all parties. The Quran, the Hadith and the Islamic spiritual teachings of all denominations urge peace and reconciliation as the primary duty on all Muslims -- whose very name means peace. Likewise to Christians, whose founder revered peace above all -- and stated that peacemakers shall be like Children of God. The TRCME seeks immediate theological reconciliation and peace making between the faiths and parties of the Middle East in a new unbreakable covenant which can make genuine peace, security and wisdom the priority for all in the region.

The TRCME met in Israel and Palestine in August 2008 where meetings were held with leading thinkers, academics, mystics, theologians, refugees, etc. to discuss their views on how to solve the crisis in relations between Israel and Palestine (and indirectly the Middle East in general), the focus being primarily on the philosophical, spiritual, intellectual and theological dimensions of the challenges of peacemaking in the Middle Eastern context, in a long term and holistic perspective.

These meetings were filmed and an extended documentary trailer can be viewed at www.holisticchannel.org.uk under Human Rights and Peace

For further information on the TRCME, visit www.educationaid.net

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