Program:

Sunday 2 November:

Stavanger Cathedral (not confirmed): Service 11.00-12.30

Monday 3 November:

School of Mission and Theology / Misjonshøgskolen: Lecture: 12.15 – 14.00: Religious dialogue – a tool for peace in Israel and Palestine? Can the Christians of the Middle East build bridges between the East and West? Opening by Associate Professor Gerd Marie Ådna

Stavanger Diocese Office: Open meeting 16.00 – 19.00 (including a meal at the start of the meeting): The Palestinian Christians – their witness and their challenges. Opening by Bishop Ernst Baasland

Tuesday 4 November

Vår Frelsers Kirke: Open meeting 17.00-19.00 The Christian Zionists and the challenges from the Palestinian Christians. Opening by Rev. Jens Olav Mæland

About Salwa Duaibis

Salwa Duaibis was born in Nazareth in 1960. She studied biochemistry and economics at Birzeit University and the London School of Economics. In 1983 she became a partner of the Ramallah-based Mattin Group, a human rights and development organization specialized in addressing the deficient implementation of human rights protection in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Scope of work included the development of strategies and enlisting of partners to address specific human rights and development objectives in a practical and effective manner based on careful attention to legal and technical detail. Primary strategic focus was given to identifying opportunities and developing strategies for law-based lobbying and advocacy activities targeting European political institutions and civil societies aimed at making tangible contributions to the passive enforcement of international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Salwa presented papers in local and international conferences and universities in Europe, The United States and the Far East. She advised local Palestinian NGOs and their counterpart European organizations, including churches and church related organizations, on issues related to the enforcement of international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories focusing on third state and third party responsibility towards Israel’s violations of international humanitarian law.

Salwa is a volunteer member of a number of local educational, cultural and human rights organizations including the Campaign for the Right to Enter the Occupied Territories, the Barenboim-Said Foundation and others. She recently presented Sabeel at the Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference held in Seoul in November 2007 on peace and unity on the Korean Peninsula.