Towards a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East

Towards a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East has two main purposes, firstly to explain the background behind the launching of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East in 2008, and secondly to give something of the theoretical framework in which this project is being based. Unusual among peace institutes worldwide, the work of the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy is dedicated not to the political or military or even economic aspects of peace building, although all such are important - but rather to the causal and metaphysical level of peace building - the building of peace in the collective imagination, the collective will and the collective intelligence of mankind's warring tribes, nations and religions. It is concerned with the psychological healing and philosophical reconstruction of mankind's inner life, alongside the outermost socio-economic factors.