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Sami Awad
Website:
Holy Land Trust
Country:
Palestine
Activity:
Activist, Community organiser, NGO director
Keywords:
fear, humanity, love, mindfulness, nonviolence, other, peace, present
We can't wait for someone to come and liberate us or give us a state; we need to fight to achieve such things. The method we use is nonviolence, because nonviolence is not only a means of resistance, but of individual empowerment and thus the empowerment of society to take initiative.
Presentation
Sami Awad is a descendent of a Palestinian refugee family that was expelled from its home in Jerusalem in 1948. He grew up in Bethlehem under the Israeli military occupation and from a young age took part in nonviolent activism to end the occupation. Like many Palestinians, Sami has lost family members as a result of the conflict in the Holy Land. His grandfather was killed in the 1948 war. Palestinian from Bethlehem, Sami Awad is the Executive Director of Holy Land Trust.
While he holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the American University in Washington D.C. and an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Kansas, his philosophical underpinnings for peacemaking were formed and molded by his family.
While Sami has worked all over the world to promote the vision of peace through nonviolence and community-building in places such as India, South Africa, the United States and most recently Erbil, Iraqi-Kurdistan, he remains at work mending historical traumas in the Holy Land.
Interviews available from Sami Awad
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Fear and love
How does fear shape individuals and communities?
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Fear limits the possibility for peace
What role does fear play in the political agreements?
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Live out my humanity
We have a full humanity to live!
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Mindfulness – being fully present
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Nonviolence offers a place for the other to see me differently
Nonviolence and the narrative that they tell about me.