People are empowered to make their own peace agreements!Eyal Raviv, founder of MEPEACE.org, presents this phenomenal new network to Angelenos, showing how Americans can connect with peacemakers among Israelis, Palestinians and across the region. The evening includes refreshments along with a visual presentation and lively discussion. Donations to support mepeace.org will be welcome.

MEPEACE is a network for peace with thousands of peacemakers and millions of page visits on mepeace.org. The network is designed to:

• Exemplify peace and realize peace online and on the ground,
• Empower people and orgs with interaction, information and inspiration, and
• Enable a movement for peace with internet and networking technologies

The web platform enables individuals and organizations from more than 180 countries to overcome physical barriers, share and learn about one another. On the ground, mepeace.org creates community-building encounters, provides activist leadership training, and offers technology consulting to other peace organizations. The Israeli media has called MEPEACE the "Facebook of Peace" because it works like Facebook and is dedicated to peace. MEPEACE is a non-profit organization. To sustain this work contributions are welcomed.

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The Middle East and its inhabitants have struggled under autocratic regimes for decades, but things have changed with Tunisia's "Jasmine Revolution" of 28 days and the Egyptian Revolution that lasted a mere 18 days before Mubarak left office. Yet much more remains to be done to bring peace to the entire regime, and around the world, millions feel invested in the region. The will of the people is not being sufficiently garnered for peace. MEPEACE provides platforms for interaction, information and inspiration to harness the potential of people and organizations the region and beyond to galvanize their collective will for peace. Our goals are to create new platforms, centralize information, develop leadership in order to mobilize a critical mass of moderates for peace.

Networking
On the web platform, individuals express themselves and communicate with each other through photos, videos and text. Communication is enabled in chat rooms, and through comment walls and private messaging, and in thousands of discussions. Upon joining us one receives a page online with a personal profile, blog, comment wall and private inbox. Personal pages automatically feature the individual's discussions, photos, videos and songs. On the ground events such as Peace Cafés and other events enable peacemakers to meet in person. We participate in international peace conferences and create our own, such as the "MEPEACE: Making Things Possible" meeting in Amman, Jordan.

Impact
MEPEACE is supporting a bottom-up effort utilizing new technologies to provide a global solution for Middle East peace. We are building a grassroots movement with cutting-edge social networking technology. We aim to offer a global solution by empowering individuals across the world. Thousands peacemakers have profiles on mepeace.org - in Israeli and Palestine, as well as the US, UK, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Our web platform has been accessed in more than 18,000 cities.

Check out all the orgs to which MEPEACE links!

This evening is presented with support from Middle East Dialogue Los Angeles, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, the United Religions Initiative, Muslims for Progressive Values and the Levantine Cultural Center.