Interview Questions for Robi Damelin
Please tell me where you're from and what your experience with the conflict is.
When did you begin to get involved in the Bereaved Families Forum?
When was the turning point for you in starting to do this work, when you started to be active?
What do you mean by integrity?
How did you feel when you heard the sniper had been caught?
What did people around you think?
Please tell me about the Bereaved Families Forum.
What do you do at your meetings?
Why is there so little contact between Israeli and Palestinian school kids?
What makes the students listen to the Bereaved Families Forum school presentations?
What do you expect the students who hear your school presentations to gain?
Do you ever encounter resistance to using your status as a bereaved parent in this type of work?
What do you need from your counterparts to be able to work with them?
What challenges you in your work?
How much time do you spend doing these activities?
What kind of meetings do you have? Who participates?
Do you ever encounter resistance inside the group to anything?
What do you think the effect of your work is?
Where do you think you are in relation to the mainstream in your society?
What would you do differently if you could start over in your organization?
Is there a project you would have considered doing differently or a direction you would have taken?
What can women contribute that is unique?
How has the political situation affected your work?
Would you tell me about the telephone line for Palestinians and Israelis?
Are there limitations on your meetings because of the current situation?
What do you think this conflict is about?
What do you think of former peace processes?
What is the ideal situation you would like to see here in the future?
What does the word peace mean for you?
What do you think of slogans such as 'separation' given your background as a South African?
How do you think people here would react to a public apology?
Do you have any model in mind for reconciliation?
How do you expect to apply their model?
But Mandela also chose to adopt a violent path as well.
Do you think a Truth and Reconciliation Commission could work here?
Do you think grassroots organizations will have a role in that?
Is an outsider's role here important?
What do you want to see outsiders doing to be constructive here?
