Lebanon

Assaad Chaftari

He served as a senior intelligence official of the Christian militia Lebanese Forces. He is now dedicated to promote personal change, peace building and reconciliation

Country: Lebanon
Role / Vocation: Activist · Writer
Contributions: 6 interviews · 2 meditations

Biography

Assaad was a member of the Kataeb party and then the Lebanese Forces (LF) as vice chief of intelligence. After the war, in 2000 he wrote a public letter of apology for the things he had committed during the war. He is a member of the international NGO Initiatives of Change, the coordinator of the gathering of NGOs Wahdatouna Khallasouna and FFP’s vice president.

Website & Source

Fighter for peace · http://fightersforpeace.org/Home/TheTeam

Interviews with this Speaker

Assaad Chaftari

Reconciliation and opportunities for peace

Assaad Chaftari

The other when you meet him stop being the other

Assaad Chaftari

I discovered that the others had names

I join these groups of dialogue and this is where I think I met on a moral and spiritual level the other and I discovered that these or those had names.

Assaad Chaftari

How I came to look at my self: Four moral values to see where you stand

I started this long process of change, I had to look into the mirror of myself. I'm not done yet.

Assaad Chaftari

Try dialogue again and again

Never use violence because it's useless. Try to dialogue again and again.

Assaad Chaftari

I saw myself as a protector of my religion

Unfortunately Christianity became a title to define myself with or my people. But it should be a way of living a life of love.

Guided Meditations

Meeting the other on a moral and spiritual level

A timelapse close to my village where we can see a lot of life going on. Cars, lights, sunset, stars... all of theses things have name, are part of the whole.

When religion becomes a social identity

This video shows some images of some buildings that still have some scares from the Civil War. The light that comes once in a while, reminds me that religion ca…