The Parents Circle-Families Forum
The Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF) is a joint Palestinian Israeli organization of over 600 families, all of whom have lost a close family member as a result of the prolonged conflict. Joint activities have shown that the reconciliation between individuals and nations is possible and it is this insight that they are trying to pass on to both sides of the conflict. Moreover, the PCFF has concluded that the process of reconciliation between nations is a prerequisite to achieving a sustainable peace. The organization thus utilizes all resources available in education, public meetings and the media, to spread these ideas.
The Parents Circle – Families Forum is registered as an association and is managed jointly by the professional staff, Israelis and Palestinians working in two offices: the Palestinian in El’ram and the Israeli in Ramat Ef’al, Tel Aviv.
Although the PCFF has no stated position on the political solution of the conflict, most of its members agree that the solution must be based on free negotiations between the leadership of both sides to ensure basic human rights, the establishment of two states for two peoples, and the signing of a peace treaty.
The historic reconciliation between the two nations is a necessary condition for obtaining a sustainable peace treaty.
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Apeirogon: Parents Circle in Best-selling Novel of Bereaved Fathers
In 2003, Rex presented the Bill Graham Award to the Parents Circle/Bereaved Families Forum, a group founded in Israel by Palestinian and Israeli parents who had lost children to the ongoing conflict and hoped to build peace. It’s 2020, the conflict is very much still with us, bereaving still more parents. A new book, soon […]
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“Peace is not a prayer, peace is in the hands of each and every one of us. Peace is not just between states, peace is between a man and his friends, man and wife, parents and their children, between neighbors, between partners, between all human beings and between states. The basis for any peace is compromise and reconciliation.”
-Yitzhak Frankenthal, The Parents Circle-Bereaved Families Forum
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