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The Mediterranean Peace Forum is a space of gathering and reflexion oriented towards a unified Mediterranean region in its diversity for peace and coexistence.
Its first objective consists in developing a culture of living together. In order to reach this objective, the Forum privileges three major topics:
- Co-development among Mediterranean countries:
Promotion of culture of peace and establishment of partnership process and an increasing economic integration.
- Interfaith dialogue between Christianity and Islam:
Calling for respect of cultural diversity and strengthening mutual understanding and good neighbourhood among the peoples of the Mediterranean.
- Israeli-Palestinian dialogue:
Working to build confidence among the two peoples.
The Mediterranean Peace Forum is both a public and a private organisation looking for gathering academic and religious figures, men and women of culture, politicians, businessmen, artists and media representatives.
The Forum has three seats : in Africa, Asia and Europe. This approach of a partnership based on equality among peoples of the three continents may contribute to the creation of a common vision for a Mediterranean economic group based on the Mediterranean multicultural reality and the multipolar world.
The Bureau of the forum is composed of:
- Honorary President:
- Mr Ahmad Qurie, Former Palestinian Prime Minister.
- President:
- Sheikh Mohammed Bin Issa Al Jaber: Chairman of MBI Al Jaber Foundation.
- Vice-President:
- Mr Federico Mayor, President of the Culture of Peace Foundation,
former Director General of UNESCO;
- Mr Giovanni Pelligrino, Former President of the Lecce Province (Italy);
- Dr Avi Gil, Economist.
- Secretary General:
- Dr Omar Massalha, Former Ambassador, former Director at UNESCO.
- Treasurer:
- Professor Philippe Saunier , Vice-President of Nice Sophia Antipolis University.
- Communication Advisor:
- Mr Emile H. Mallet, Director of the magazine « Passages ».
The founding members comprise 17 personalities who share the common values of peace and tolerance. Some of them, although they are not from Mediterranean countries, wish to contribute in building up this new strategy of cultural and economic development.
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