Forum for Peace and Reconciliation [SEP] inception
Forum for Peace and Reconciliation
The Forum for Peace and Reconciliation () was a forum established by the government of Ireland in October 1994 as part of the Northern Ireland peace process.
Initiation.
The Forum was envisaged in paragraph 11 of the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993:
Preparations for the forum were triggered by the ceasefires announced in September 1994 by the republican Provisional IRA and loyalist UVF and UDA, whose associated political parties were thus invited to the forum. Sinn Féin accepted, while the loyalist PUP and
The Parents Circle-Families Forum
The Parents Circle Families Forum (PCFF) is a grassroots organization of Palestinian and Israeli families who have lost immediate family members due to the conflict. The PCFF operates under the principle that a process of reconciliation is a prerequisite for achieving a sustained peace. The PCFF is also known as Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families for Reconciliation and Peace and as Bereaved Families Supporting Peace, Reconciliation, and Tolerance.
PCFF was founded in 1995 by Yitzhak Frankenthal and several bereaved Israeli families. According to an article