«Jerusalem - Open City for Learning World Peace»

'Sternstunde Philosophie' - 'The enemy as a friend'
You will find the podcast of that Swiss television broadcast here (only available in german language).

On August the 30^th 2009, ,Sternstunde Philosophie´broadcasted an interview titled 'The enemy as a friend'. The most important cooperation partners of Lassalle-Institut in the Jerusalem Project, Palestinian Rami Nasrallah and Israeli Shlomo Hasson, were talking to Norbert Bischofberger about Near and Middle East, the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis and the vision which they share with Lassalle-Insitut of Jerusalem as an Open City in the context of the two-state solution.

You will find the current report on the Jerusalem Project here.

A short overview of the most important activities at the Lassalle-Institut in the past two years.

Lassalle-Institut´s Jerusalem Project is shaping up well. The following steps have recently been taken or are planned in the short-term:

Currently, LI´s focus is mainly on preparations for the first International Conference ,Jerusalem: The Global Challenge´. Israelis, Palestinians and representatives of the International Community will meet from 14^th to 16^th of October in order to get in touch with the vision of an open Jerusalem and finally discuss and implement concrete steps for the city and its surroundings. At the end of August Anna Gamma will travel to New York to resume networking with the United Nations
In March/ April 2010, Pia Gyger and Niklaus Brantschen, heads of the Jerusalem Project, are living and working in Jerusalem for about four weeks. From now on, according to a basic decision, both of them will promote the project on site twice a year for about a month.
At the end of 2009, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs decides to actively support the first International Conference ,Jerusalem: The Global Challenge´. This represents a big step for the Jerusalem Project as it cannot grow without the support of the International Community
In October 2009, Anna Gamma, director of Lassalle-Institut, meets decision makers of the UN, the Swiss ambassador Peter Maurer and representatives of the European Commission to informe them about the Jerusalem Project and to explore the possibilities of a cooperation
In July 2009, a preparation meeting for an international Jerusalem Conference in October 2010 takes place in Bad Schoenbrunn. High-ranking representatives from politics, business and churches as well as IPCC and Futura Institute participate in this preparation meeting. At the beginning Rami Nasrallah and Shlomo Hasson get interviewed by Swiss Television 'Sternstunde Philosophie'. The broadcast is called 'The enemy as a friend'. Afterwards a lunch for journalists in Zurich represents an opportunity to get more information about 'Jerusalem- the Open City'. Subsequently, four newspapers report about the Jerusalem Project
In the mid of march 2009, Lassalle-Institut, IPCC and Futura Institute meet representatives of churches, the Eropean Union, the United Nations and other Israeli and Palestinian partners in Jerusalem and Betlehem
Lassalle-Institut, IPCC and FI present the Jerusalem Project to representatives of UNO and high-ranking diplomats in New York to discuss options for a possible cooperation