Nation Building on the Run: The Nablus Marathon

Dec 27, 2010 Published under Middle East, OneVoice Movement, Palestine, PeaceWorks Foundation

This past week, twenty OneVoice Youth Leaders participated in the annual Nablus Marathon, along with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and approximately 5000 other participants. At the end of the marathon, the Youth Leaders, clad in OneVoice tee-shirts, had collected visions of 2018 from their huffing and puffing peers along the course.

The marathon itself is a concrete sign of nation building, and the Youth Leader’s participation, is a sign of the peaceful nation that will hopefully continue to be built.

by Adeena Schlussel, spotted by Daniel Lubetzky

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