WASATIA
SECOND
ANNUAL
CONFERENCE
FINAL
RESOLUTIONS
AL-BIREH, 21
MARCH 2008
Al-Wasatia
held its
Second
Annual
Conference
under the
title:
“Al-Wasatia
from theory
to
Practice,”
in the
Palestinian
Red Crescent
Society, Al-Bireh,
on March 21,
2008. The
conference
were
attended by
religious
leaders,
educators,
journalists,
ngo members,
among
others, who
adhered to
the Wasatia
creed.
Following a
day of
deliberations
on the
present
status of
the
Palestinian
society and
the
conditions
of the
Palestinian
people, as
well as the
role of the
Wasatia
approach in
dealing with
the present
deepening
crisis,
radicalism,
and
extremism,
which
necessitates
that those
who are
devout for
the welfare
of the
country to
unify their
efforts to
activate the
national
agenda and
to design
national
strategies
and
practical
plans and
programs
that would
support the
connectivity
between the
components
of wasatia
thinking
offering
hope to a
bright
future. In
the light of
this, and
having
reviewed the
research
papers
presented in
the
conference
and
listening to
the
discussions
that it
generated,
the
participants
have decided
to adopt the
following
resolutions
and
recommendations:
1. To affirm
that the
culture of
Wasatia is
the shield
of the
nation and
its firm
fortress.
2. To have
the
ministries,
institutions
and agencies
of the
Palestinian
Authority
adopt,
practice,
and promote
the Wasatia
values and
principles
of
accountability,
transparency,
justice, and
balance,
making it
the focal of
Palestinian
life.
3. To affirm
the
principle of
connecting
together the
civic
society with
the wasatia
bondage.
4. To
promote the
meaning of
Wasatia and
ways of
practicing
it through
workshops,
lectures,
and
seminars.
5. To
develop the
wasatia
website to
spread the
ideas of
wasatia in
Palestine
and abroad.
6. To
publish
books,
pamphlets,
and
brochures to
disseminate
information
about
wasatia
among
Palestinians.
7. To
establish a
resource
library that
would
include
books,
articles,
documents,
and research
papers
dealing with
the topic of
wasatia.
8. To build
a network of
all
organizations
which
believe in
the wasatia
creed to
cooperate
together and
support each
other.
9. To strive
making the
wasatia
become an
integral
part of the
Palestinian
educational
curriculum.
10. To
cooperate
with other
parties,
organizations,
initiatives,
and popular
movements,
to map a
national
strategy
based on the
wasatia
approach.
11. To
affirm the
need to
continue the
dialogue
with the
other
heavenly
religions,
to bring
more
understanding
and
cooperation.
12. To
approach the
Prime
Minister to
adopt an
obligatory
university
course on
wasatia and
have a
textbook
written for
that purpose
by experts
in the
field.
13. To
support the
cause of
women and
help her
affirm her
rights in
society in
equality
with men.
14. To
create
wasatia
clubs for
children and
youth to
protect them
from street
vices.
15. To use
the media,
-newspaper,
radio,
television,
internet –
to spread
the values
of Wasatia
among
Palestinians
.The
participants
value much
the
financial
support
offered by
the Conrad
Adenauer
Stiftung
that made
this
conference
possible.
Voted
unanimously
by all
participants.