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Dr. S. M. Sweid / A Strategy for the Middle East Jan 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intro
1 - Use Of Force And Killing Should Stop Right Away
2 - A Paradigm Shift In Mindset Is Needed For Everybody In the World, East And West, North And South:
A Mindset Of Collaboration And Partnership
2 -1 The Real Enemy Within
2-2 There Are Many Working Systems And Not Just One
2 -3 Preservation Of The Many Cultures On Earth
2-4 Modern Leadership
3 - A Paradigm Shift In Mindset Is Needed For Everybody In the World, East And West, North And South:
Extreme Tolerance, Respect And Trust
4 - Characteristics of the Overlap Area Of The Different Cultures
5 – Compromising A Lot, And Rewriting Of Our Original Goals For the Overlap Area
6 - Empowerment Of All People Rather Than Manipulation and Dominance
7- The Different People Were Born And Brought Up This Way
8 - Right And Wrong And Values in The Overlap Area of Cultures
9 - Examples To Follow
10 - Please No Double Standards But Only the Truth
11 - Not To Be Personally Dragged By The Hate Wave
12 - All Countries Everywhere: Please Stop Conspiring, Interfering, And Bullying
13 - To All Countries: Please Transform Into Open Societies With No Secrets And Hidden Agendas
14 - Admitting Mistakes Of The Past To Resolve Issues of Conflict For Good
15 - To Acknowledge the Contribution Of the Middle East, Arabs And Islam To Humanity And Civilization
16 - Creative Thinking is Key to Generating WIN-WIN Solutions
17 - Training Courses For Turning On The Right Mindsets And For Learning Of Creative Thinking And
Innovation
18 - To Engage The Right People with Integrity, Empathy and Creative Thinking As Facilitators Of
Respect, Collaboration and Peace
19 - A Strict Scenario For Debating Peace: Lock People In One Room!
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Intro
This is the age of social media and exponential and open innovations. This is the age of the 4th
industrial revolution, with the advent of artificial intelligence and robotics all connected to the
cyberspace, and this is the age of the eradication of cancer. Nevertheless, there is still barbaric
behavior reflecting the middle ages or even much earlier in history, this on all sides involved in
the Middle East, and East and West, North and South on the planet. Are there no more good
and intelligent people in the world?
The global financial crisis of 2008 and what is now happening in the Middle East and indeed in
Syria, Iraq and Yemen are an indication that things need to change in a quantum leap manner in
the whole world. See what is going on in Arab countries at present, and how violence spiraled
out of control, and how many players are intervening with no mercy. What started with
peaceful demonstrations some four years ago of young people demanding freedom has turned
into the greatest refugee apocalypse. The whole landscape is being torn apart with deliberate
effort. The whole Arab and Islamic social fabric in the Middle East is being irreversibly
destroyed.
I am talking about the current crisis in the Middle East and how it can be resolved on the
worldwide scope, i.e. I am suggesting tentative SOLUTIONS. I believe all nations have the right
to freedom, self-determination and democracy, including the Arab nations.
I am multicultural, and a globetrotter. I lived for many years in many countries West and East
and with different languages and still do, and I adapted myself to many different cultures and
settings throughout my life, and found them all very humane and welcoming. I tried to cope
and contribute equally in all of them. I am a business and management consultant, hence I
apply methodology in my thinking. I am taking also modern notions from the business world
and adapting them to the political scene in the world.
Here Is My Take:
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Solutions:
1 - Use Of Force And Killing Should Stop Right Away
Killing should stop immediately and one should start rethinking but with much greater respect
of the other and justice for all
Use of pure force and oppression reflect total INCOMPETENCE in striking dialogue and
collaboration with other people and cultures. The other possibility is some hidden agenda
behind the actions, i.e. conspiracy, and this is also totally wrong in this age of openness and
collaboration. All this control and dominance stance is already obsolete and one should try
much harder to collaborate and to have patience and to respect people. The easy solution is to
disrupt progress in countries; it is easy to cause destruction. But the easy solution is not the
right one, and we need to build the planet and not to destroy it. There is no excuse for killing
even under the pretext of national security, anti-terrorism, anti-extremism, etc, which have
become clichés. This remains a great incompetence of people involved.
Use of force is the easy action and solution but is very short term in benefit, similar to bullying
in the school or at work, or to cheating in business, or the destruction of the environment or
the exploitation of the workforce or resources etc.
Killing and bombing of people is the primitive way of expression and is indicative of total
INCOMPETENCE AND IMMATURITY of the people in charge and their intelligence, including
especially politicians in the major world and regional powers, West and East, North and South,
and certainly Israel. You need people who are able of engaging in dialogue and working out
collectively with others alternative PEACEFUL solutions. Violence and oppression are only an
indication of the great incompetence in striking a healthy relationship with others. Oppression
forces people to go covert and to resist with all means possible, i.e. to go underground, and this
is all very counterproductive in the sense of sustainable progress in the world.
One cannot annihilate a whole nation just because one is incapable of collaborating with non
like!!! When extreme and excessive force is used as a bullying act what is to be expected from
the people at the receiving end??? One should seek DÉTENTE instead.
Enough of Both sides banging their heads against the wall.
I do not want to work with some people against other people; this smacks of total failure in
ethics and intelligence. I WANT TO WORK WITH PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL PEOPLE: This
is open society
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2 - A Paradigm Shift In Mindset Is Needed For Everybody In the World,
East And West, North And South: A Mindset Of Collaboration And
Partnership
Despite the colossal injustice that hit many countries during the last few years, e.g. Syria,
Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Iraq and others, and the actual resulting carnage, I am suggesting a
paradigm shift in mindset towards collaboration with the other person and culture, and this
goes for all parties involved and in all directions.
A paradigm shift in the MINDSET is needed: This implies a 180 degrees shift in the mindset. We
should divert all our effort to collaboration and coexistence rather than fighting each other and
hating each other and killing etc. To shift to the MODE of PARTNERSHIP rather than adversity
and conspiracies. It is about partnership and even intimacy. Such a mindset changes
everything. This implies change in your set goals too with less of us only but more of all of us
together, hence more giving rather than just taking and exploiting. To shift gear to making
friends and empathy rather than being on the defensive or offensive. This implies a shift away
from conspiracy and winning to sharing and collaborating, and finding INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
collectively for peace. Main thing is to BUILD and not to destroy.
The real courage is not in confrontation, in fighting the other and in the battle, but THE
COURAGE SHOULD BE IN HAVING A BIG HEART AND ACCEPTING THE OTHER and to be willing to
share much more and to take the risk in sharing. The courage is not in making conflict but
rather in making friends. Making conflict is the easy way out, but making friends is the difficult
way, but is much more sophisticated and worthwhile. IT IS IMMATURE TO BE A BULLY, but it is
very mature to be tolerant and to make friends.
This implies not only 10 times more sharing than before, but 100 TIMES more. Please repeat
after me: “” Hundred times more sharing””. Just forget about hostility and think only positively: It is
about a positive stance: People can live together.
This mindset is much closer to the concept of WIN-WIN in MODERN BUSINESS, away from the concept
of win and lose in the traditional sports games of football and other. Instead of always wanting to win,
help others to win!
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We should redirect the whole focus on means of collaborating and co-existing and living
peacefully together, with mutual respect. This is essentially about the SYNERGY OF DIVERSITY. It
is about TEAMWORK with the people we do not know. This is about teamwork with everybody.
This approach involves solving problems together: Collectively, as should be, and not bullying
solutions. We should look at the adversaries as partners, and this brings much more synergy.
This is similar to a business shifting to CUSTOMER FOCUS AND CUSTOMER CARE. You should do
the same when dealing with other people and nations and to go for close relationship rather
than cheating them, and to go the extra 100 miles with other nations and all people rather than
being on the defensive or offensive: Seek CUSTOMER INTIMACY hence intimacy with other
nations. Yes try and fall in love with them. There is need to be FLEXIBLE TO CHANGE as with
businesses now: It is about agility. Think how you can make other parties very happy rather
than to bombard them and kill them the primitive way. Like when you think to make your
customers very happy instead of the easy stance of cheating them. Consider the other side your
customer or partner.
Strategy is not about realizing only some dream of yours but about shared goals. Strategy
should be geared towards more sharing and giving rather than eliminating people on your way
to your goal. Destruction is easy but remains a primitive act with no real benefits.
There is no such thing as just accumulating wealth. This is the wrong approach. It is more about
social responsibility, giving and sharing.
The different parties should do this turnaround in the mindset at the same time, but it would
be essential to start somewhere to motivate same behavior change in all parties concerned.
The school of thought of ruling the world and dominating is very similar to the ancient school of
MONOPOLY and MAJOR MARKET SHARES in business, i.e. it is all ancient and long outdated.
The large conglomerates realize now that it is mainly about SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY and long-
term view based on VALUES and COLLECTIVE EFFORT OF THE DIVERSITY, and it is not only about
winning and exploiting of resources.
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2 -1 The Real Enemy Within
The real enemy is not the others, Muslims, Arabs, other sects and the like, but the gigantic
inherent incompetence in collaborating with others and striking a healthy relationship with
other people and other cultures.
The real enemy is this ancient school of dominance and leadership and accumulating wealth,
and not sharing, lack of social responsibility, and indeed covert and clandestine society
conspiring all the time, whether local or foreign, versus the much better open society with
partnerships. It is the BULLY SYNDROM, the primal habit that needs total overhaul. There is dire
need to learn about what civilization is really about. This is summarized in one word: RESPECT
of the other.
2-2 There Are Many Working Systems And Not Just One
There are many working social systems and one should stop this singularity thinking, West and
East, including the thinking of major powers: There are many solutions and not only one. Life is
about diversity and not homogeneity.
2 -3 Preservation Of The Many Cultures On Earth
Existing cultures and social fabrics on earth should be preserved and not destroyed as the case
with the preservation of the earth and environment. This does not imply there is no right or
wrong or evil acts.
2-4 Modern Leadership
Modern leadership is about being a human glue and not about orders and dominance. It is
about encouraging synergy and not division. DOMINANCE HAS BECOME OBSOLETE. This is only
the primal state of things
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3 - A Paradigm Shift In Mindset Is Needed For Everybody In the World,
East And West, North And South: Extreme Tolerance, Respect And Trust
All people want to raise their children with security and values etc. all people in the world have
the same MASLOW NEEDS despite all their diversities. All people have needs, e.g. Maslow
needs, and ultimately they all need respect.
This goes for everybody: Arabs of all groups and sects, Islam and other, Western powers, Israel,
other powers, e.g. Russia, China etc, regional powers such as Iran. Respect should go in all
directions: It is a two way street. -. You should stretch TOLERANCE AND RESPECT AND TRUST
some 100 times from the present levels and should be mutual. Tolerance is about accepting the
differences in the culture and the system. This goes far beyond thank you and sorry. Here again
majority should respect minority but also minority should respect majority.
There is a lot of karma in respect and tolerance.
If the other party does not want to improve the respect and tolerance towards you this does
not imply you have to reciprocate with the same and with extreme force! NO. You have to show
more patience and try and turn around the situation, again with many compromises and more
giving.
This means changing all of your previous individual goals to SHARED GOALS, meaning A LOT OF
SHARING AND COMPROMISING. But this is the right way. This should be applied especially by
the major powers in the world, but also by Israel. There should be a real paradigm shift, i.e.
quantum leap, in this matter of respect of the other.
This is how the whole conflict in the Middle East can be resolved: With radical thinking in terms
of respect, tolerance and trust in plenty of all parties involved but indeed to be applied by the
major powers.
There is need to work out very INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS in collaboration rather than in
oppression and covert operations.
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There should be no sectarian discrimination of any kind, and same goes for Western countries
and other powers, i.e. no discrimination against Muslims or Arabs etc, who are part of this
planet and of the community in your country. It is about respect of other cultures and this is a
mutual respect.
For instance, privacy is very much respected in Western countries but when it comes to other
countries in the Middle East even human dignity is not respected. There is no death sentence in
many countries while people are bombed and killed in thousands in other countries.
Stop this “I have to win” stance and go for the “we should coexist”.
It is always about this show of force when it comes to other people, why not show
understanding and respect instead: Why not develop your COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND
EMPATHY, rather than to keep hiding behind a screen of covert existence and conspiracies.
This is very much similar to business: one should respect the customer much more, and not to
resort to manipulation and cheating to make money. It is about being honest and GOING THE
EXTRA MILE and providing the customer with much more than expected and making the
customer not only satisfied but very happy with the whole experience.
It is all about mutual respect, but also about much more respect of the others. It does not
suffice to respect the people in your community or country, but you should work million times
harder to respect the people on the outside, hence all people actually.
Same with the EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT: One should show respect. You do not take it all
because they are on the outside.
You need to have endless patience and understanding, and respect of others and indeed of life.
One should not condemn people right away and take their life as is happening at present
without a second thought or as to causes etc.
It is about TRYING MILLION TIMES MORE to understand the other point of view and to listen
and learn. THERE IS NO ONE SOLUTION FOR THINGS.
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4 - Characteristics of the Overlap Area Of The Different Cultures
There should be a lot of COMPROMISE by all sides concerned in The overlap area of different
cultures or people, whether inside Middle Eastern countries or in Western countries.
There are values e.g. the 10 commandments, right and wrong, but there is need to
compromise a lot too in this OVERLAP DOMAIN , e.g. you should respect the culture and
tradition of people you are living with, e.g. when in Rome. Values at the overlap area should
be redefined.
This is similar to the WORKPLACE AND COLLEAGUES at work, and we need to work together to
build the future despite the million differences. We should look at diversity in a positive
manner, as stimulant to change and innovation.
This is the overlap domain, but here again people need their own physical space to practice
their own common values, e.g. countries or districts etc.
5 – Compromising A Lot, And Rewriting Of Our Original Goals For the
Overlap Area
We should all rectify our original goals quite a lot and compromise a lot: It is not about living
the way we want and desire despite the rest of the people, but rather how we can all live in
some form of harmony and peace with all despite the differences. The easy way always is the
oppressive way and to destroy the enemy to live the way we wish, i.e. to remove the hurdles. It
is much more difficult to compromise but it is much more worthwhile for the long term and for
all parties concerned.
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6 - Empowerment Of All People Rather Than Manipulation and
Dominance
There is so much talk about EMPOWERING EMPLOYEES in business and management, but when
it comes to empowering people and nations this becomes a different story. Why cannot the
Arab nations be empowered? Why can’t they decided their own fate? Let people realize their
full potential their way.
One should give the chance to those cultural systems to evolve and have improved harmony
with the rest of the world. One should empower rather than dictate and not to destroy the
species of people and culture as being done now.
Even different species of animals know how to co-exist.
Arab nations have the right to self-determination and Israel should stop being the aggressor,
oppressor and occupier of Arab land, and should learn to coexist as Jews do everywhere rather
than acting as a toxic and destructive element.
7- The Different People Were Born And Brought Up This Way
They were born this way or brought up this way in religion or culture or tradition or way of
thinking and way of life, whether religious or secular, hence such mindsets cannot be changed
that easily, requiring ample tolerance towards each other. It is all ingrained in the mind, but
people are more ready to listen and learn and become more flexible and evolve with more
tolerance and respect, and when they are ready and want to. Each culture can gain from the
other. One should add again that there is no one working social system and there can be
different effective systems, and this is the case. Furthermore, values of each system might be
constants, but there are OPERATIONAL means that are much more flexible and can adapt with
changes in the environment and can serve a lot in the overlap area of the diverse cultures.
8 - Right And Wrong And Values in The Overlap Area of Cultures
This overlap of cultures does not imply there are no values or no right or wrong. It does not
imply giving up of autonomy and does not imply criminal elements should not stand trial, but
here again there is a lot of respect and learning to be done: Who says there is only one right
system?
People have the right to have some selective physical space to practice their own values and
collective culture, i.e. countries and districts.
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9 - Examples To Follow
The EU is a great example for coexistence of the diversity for lasting peace. Arab countries were
great examples for the coexistence of diversities that is until secret players came into the play.
Islam as an open society was a great melting pot of so many nations, religions and ethnic
groups too, this for over one thousand years.
One can learn about tolerance and multicultural setting from Dubai but also other settings in
Europe, such as the UK, Germany, Austria etc.
Try and emulate what was done by the West in the past with China and the soviet Union, i.e. a
total shift in perspective towards collaboration, Mikhail Gorbachev. South Africa post-
apartheid is another good example.
10 - Please No Double Standards But Only the Truth
You should not apply double standards, like you treat your own people good, but you exploit
the rest. E.g. as the case with Palestinian people and now also with all Arab countries
When bullying takes place in the school or workplace everybody gets involved to resolve it, but
when whole nations are bullied it is accepted!
11 - Not To Be Personally Dragged By The Hate Wave
On the personal level one should not get carried away by the dogma of governments and the
hate waves and calls for discrimination, especially through the media. You should do your own
analysis and research to find out the truth about all people.
12 - All Countries Everywhere: Please Stop Conspiring, Interfering, And
Bullying
Talk about the spies and agents and who is putting them in the field or elsewhere in Cyberspace
or outer space. Just count how many spies and agents are working in the Arab countries from
everywhere, and you can find they are in thousands, and on all levels, and this has been the
case for the last century and longer, and especially at present, e.g. Mossad, CIA , FSB (Russia),
MI6, VAJA (Iran) etc . Now count how many spies and agents have been engaged by Arab
countries in other countries: Most likely Zero. Then you ask yourself who is conspiring on
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whom? Who is doing the mischief? You can imagine the sheer size of disruption of progress
caused in Arab countries through such mingling. Arab countries do not even know what is being
concocted against them; this is ample proof that they are not good at the covert activities.
Please no more secret agendas! There is a dire price to pay when going clandestine. I prefer the
OPEN SOCIETY much more. There is a high price to pay if you decide to become a covert
society, for the purpose of having more power and accumulating wealth etc. but you become
inhumane, and it is more about conflict rather than sharing, and is always conducive to wars.
With oppression you are forcing people to resist and to go covert and underground as you are
doing yourself, and this is all very bad for the long term and for the whole planet.
Conspiracy is similar to CHEATING IN BUSINESS, it is the easy way but not the right way. The
right way is much more difficult but much more worthwhile and enduring. It is like seeking
QUICK RETURNS ON YOUR INVESTMENT, while the right thing is to INVEST FOR THE FUTURE
AND SUSTAINABLY.
This stance of spying on others and conspiring all the time is all IMMATURE, similar to the
extreme competition stance in business without regards to SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, but just
about power, winning and accumulating wealth etc.
There would not be any sectarian conflict in the Middle East now hadn’t it been for the many
secret outside players mingling and causing mayhem and instigating hatred. Please stop inciting
people against each other, since they have been living peacefully with each other for ever.
Enough interfering to weaken the Arab countries and which was going on for the last few
centuries: let them evolve their way and do not worry. Imagine they are part of the EU. Try and
couple in a WIN-WIN manner and with respect.
PLEASE STOP INTERFERING: It is about installing people from outside to rule as dictators so that
they have to rely totally on the outside force that put them in place. Please stop putting in
corrupt officials in the Arab countries. People are capable enough to elect worthy leaders.
Stop the bullying of other people as the bullying in school.
Please stop the hate campaigns against Muslims and Arabs, since it is all just in the imagination
and nonsense and counterproductive and destructive. A lot of the terrorist groups are
infiltrated anyway. Stop the campaigns of Islamophobia, Arabo-phobia, etc. in the media and
elsewhere.
Please stop the deliberate disintegration of the Arab countries and the destruction of the social
fabric of the Arabs. This is very stupid as well as very unjust and a great sign of incompetence to
co-exist. Please stop all the double standards when it comes to Arab countries and doing things
with some false pretexts. Like PRIVACY is appreciated in Western countries the same should be
done with other nations and to stop spying and interfering in their destiny. They should be
empowered instead and one should collaborate as partners.
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Arab youth as an open society were demonstrating in the streets during the early years of Arab
spring to face the covert and oppressive society of the dictators. In actual fact they are fighting
for freedom as the Palestinians are always doing, this in the name of the whole humanity.
Israel should try million times harder to solve the Palestinian problem in a just manner and to
respect its Arab neighbors and to stop gulping their land.
Please REPEAT AFTER ME FIVE TIME: “” NO MORE CONSPIRACY!””
Manipulation of facts has to stop too
Stop encouraging young people to fight and die for freedom and other unless you are also in
the field fighting, or possibly your children are. Still, it is better to change your mindset to
collaboration.
13 - To All Countries: Please Transform Into Open Societies With No
Secrets And Hidden Agendas
So much injustice has been made with the Arab nations, Palestine and many other countries.
Please stop the clandestine social habit and doing covert stuff, we and them, and please change
the mindset to being more courageous and sharing and accepting, and to stop the conspiracies
and wanting it all and dominating .
You should switch to the mode of an OPEN SOCIETY with no secrets and no hidden agendas:
This ongoing covert stance smacks of total incompetence in collaboration and communication
and striking a healthy relationship with other nations. Have the courage to be an open society
rather than a clandestine one. Just stop conspiring and spying and interfering in the back-
scenes and just make it in the open: Go for the open society rather than the covert society.
14 - Admitting Mistakes Of The Past To Resolve Issues of Conflict For
Good
People and governments should admit mistakes were made in the past even hundreds or
thousands or years ago and try and reach reconciliation, without the stubborn denial of
everything and where the problems cannot be resolved, e.g. between the different sects in the
Arab and Islamic world, and between Arabs, Moslems and other nations. They should debate
things out with logic and with facts. This has been done frequently in history and leads to
détente. There are many misconceptions that need to be put in the open instead of remaining
hidden in some cabinet.
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There is obviously right and wrong done and one should assume responsibility for the mistakes.
One should concede mistakes and try to correct the path of injustices, and clean the slate,
rather than to keep adamant as a fool. Different societies became covert with many secrets
hundreds of years ago, and the problem is they remained so and became dogmas and have
even secret rituals. There is need to move away to become open societies.
15 - To Acknowledge the Contribution Of the Middle East, Arabs And
Islam To Humanity And Civilization
It should be noted that Islam has contributed a lot to the advancement of humanity away from
the dark ages of ignorance, this in humanity but also in in sciences, e.g. chemistry, math,
medicine, astronomy, sociology etc. It has embraced science and learning all the way from day
one as it has also embraced industry, trade and prosperity but also tolerance, and was the
melting pot of many diverse nations. The Middle East region is the cradle of civilization, e.g. the
Alphabet we use today is almost the same with the same number of letters as the one
developed a few thousands of years in the region. The wheel was invented there a few
thousand years ago too. These revolutionary contributions need to be acknowledged without
distortion, because this is the right thing to do, and one should not defame a great civilization
and its people.
16 - Creative Thinking is Key to Generating WIN-WIN Solutions
Innovation is here key to the finding of the many possible solutions. All the effort should be
redirected towards finding innovative solutions for peace and sharing rather than for war and
triumphing. Forget about winning. Currently there is total lack of innovative thinking in
coexistence. There aren’t even innovative solutions about the refugee camps and housings.
Innovative solutions should be worked out with the Palestinians and all the Arabs, and to
change the mindset of major forces from wanting to dominate and oppress to the sharing
stance etc.
It should be all WIN –WIN solutions
17 - Training Courses For Turning On The Right Mindsets And For Learning
Of Creative Thinking And Innovation
Maybe it would be very useful to trigger the paradigm shift in mindset through training courses
too, to help shift the mindsets towards respect, tolerance and collaboration rather than
conspiracy and conflict. Such a training should cover local and foreign parties (West and East)
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involved in the Middle East. This would be a training about the OPEN SOCIETY away from the
covert conspiring society. This would be a training about working out joint goals away from the
individual goals.
Maybe it would be very useful to initiate training courses in creative thinking and innovation for
all government employees, and indeed for parties to be engaged in working on collaboration
and co-existence.
18 - To Engage The Right People with Integrity, Empathy and Creative
Thinking As Facilitators Of Respect, Collaboration and Peace
To put the right people with greater EMPATHY who are allocated to the overlap area of
cultures, and not traditional politicians. You also need very INNOVATIVE AND POSITIVE PEOPLE.
Traditional Politicians cannot bring about peace. Show of force is very immature and other
types of people are needed for peace. The new politicians should have the kind of patience and
empathy that we find in doctors and nurses in the hospitals. This is the kind of mindset needed
for peace. Here I am also including Western politician and the need to upgrade their mindsets
towards lasting collaboration rather than just show of force. Hence you need innovative people
with the right “SHARING” mindset, but also doers and with principles, and those are surely not
the same people handling the UN at present, and who are very ineffective in settling problems.
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19 - A Strict Scenario For Debating Peace: Lock People In One Room!
To put all the people in one room and bind them to their seats and lock the door and keep
them together until they work out many acceptable solutions. This goes also for the Jewish
state and super powers etc. Then we try to find solutions together like through brainstorming.