{"id":341,"date":"2025-04-25T07:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/?p=341"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:21:18","slug":"federal-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/federal-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <em>Challenge<\/em> colleagues were part of a great discussion yesterday, debating new models for peace. A wide range of experience was presented, from Bosnian experts, Palestinean activists, religious scholars, Jeruselem politicians and academics of federalist systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The description below is theirs: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;The stagnation of the Peace Process in Israel-Palestine, and the evolution of a very problematic \u201cOne-state\u201d reality on the ground, are making the search for a new alternative the most interesting development of the last decade in civil society and academic circles. In 2020, Challenge launched a new program named the \u201cFederal Forum\u201d, in which they have gathered together Israeli and Palestinian activists, scholars, professionals and practitioners, who have been independently developing their own federal ideas and models. Federal models offer new possibilities for addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Regional solutions. By exploring governance structures that balance national self determination with shared governance, ranging from confederations, federations, or other forms of structured partnership, can we promote security, autonomy, and cooperation between communities, and lay the groundwork for sustainable peace?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Momentum for innovative, grassroots approaches is growing in anticipation of Israel&#8217;s 2026 elections. Listening to intelligent, pragmatic and optimistic dialogue was refreshing and motivating. Congratulations to all involved and thanks for including us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Challenge colleagues were part of a great discussion yesterday, debating new models for peace. A wide range of experience was presented, from Bosnian experts, Palestinean activists, religious scholars, Jeruselem politicians and academics of federalist systems. The description below is theirs: &#8220;The stagnation of the Peace Process in Israel-Palestine, and the evolution of a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/federal-forum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Federal Forum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straitup.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}