Permanent Peace Movement is a Lebanese organization working on conflict resolution and arms control in my society, a society that has experienced years of armed violence. We consider conflict resolution and arms control as the two main pillars for peacebuilding. We often hear of a tradition of gun ownership in the Middle East region. My organization along with colleagues from across the Middle East decided to try to get a better understanding of this. To do so, we undertook a survey on public perceptions of human security in a nu...

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 ex...