An approach to the roots of nonviolence in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Jordanand Iraq, reported by Akram Antaki, Siad Darwish, Muhammed Mushir, muna Mahamreh and Mazen Kamsieh, coordinated by Felipe Daza Sierra.financially supported by The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is just ba begnining. But as you could judge by yourself, it is a promosing beginning emaning from the heart of difficult reality that still needs a lot of efforts and work.

From this standpoint, an attempt was exceeded, that we called "the history of Non-violence in the Middle East", which is just the first chapter in a novel that still must be written and lived so that to give another perspective of an idea that is starting its way in the region.

Because, it is a part of the modern hiistory of a region that was the cradle of civilizations, Then deterirated, and degenerated, was colonized and witnessed wars and bloody conflicts, and here it is today back to itself to rethink its reality in its current and future prospects.

Aregion that was asleep and united until the early twentiieth century, under the rule of the ottoman Empire (the sick man in those days). Aregion that has been, and still is including in addition to Arab and Muslims, Varied nationalities, religions and sects. Aregion that was fragmented by the colonial ambitions on the one hand and the disperal of its people and their igorance and sectarism on the other. An area that was called the Levant which included the lands of Mesopotamia, and became today fragmented into many states. Aplace in which the concious vanguard of its is trying to find its way.