Jiries Mansur, Ghassan Manasra, and Eliyahu McLean of Abrahamic Reunion
Jewish, Muslim, and Christian peacemakers from Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Galilee gathered Tuesday at Illinois State University to talk about what happens when the peace process stalls.
Eliyahu McLean, Ghassan Manasra, and Jiries Mansur addressed Multi-Faith Activism When the Political Peace Process Stalls: An Evening With International Peacemakers in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center.
The three are members of Abrahamic Reunion, a multi-faith group of peacemakers from Israel who seek to use religion as a force for peace. McLean is an Orthodox Jew from Jerusalem, co-founder of the Abrahamic Reunion, and director of the peace organization Jerusalem Peacemakers. Manasra is an ordained sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order of Islam, and director of the Peace Center in Nazareth. Mansur is a Christian Arab and deacon in the Greek Orthodox Church, and principal of a middle school in the Arab village of Kfar Rame in the Galilee.
The talk was sponsored by Illinois State University Diversity Advocacy, Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Hillel Student Union, the Presbytery of Great Rivers, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Moses Montefiore Temple, Illinois Wesleyan University’s Evelyn Chapel, the Harold K. Sage Fund and the Illinois State University Foundation. At right are a few comments by the prospective peacemakers; listen to the entire panel below.