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A.02. Alphabets of Peace As Transformative Devices Location: Aule di Botanica (CU028): Aula Blu4 Convenor(s): Silvia Nanni (University of L'Aquila, Italy); Anna Paola Paiano (University of Salento, Italy) | |
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Third Narrative, Joint Grief, and Shared Future: Symbolic Disarmament in Israel–Palestine University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy This contribution pushes the boundaries of education beyond institutional settings toward grassroots commemorative practices. It explores the emergence of a “third narrative” in the Israel–Palestine context, in its role of “cognitive and symbolic disarmament, peace-building processes, and the safeguarding of human dignity” (Panel A.02: Alphabets of Peace as Transformative Devices). Drawing on the Joint Memorial Ceremony organized by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle–Families Forum (Combatants for Peace, n.d.), as well as on the personal journey of Sulaiman Khatib (Eilberg-Schwartz & Khatib, 2021), the paper analyzes how a third narrative, can be a transformative symbolic space that challenges binary oppositions and reorients memory toward a shared future (Assman, 2011; Bashir, & Goldberg, 2023; Vaccarelli, 2025). The Ceremony disrupts the victimhood paradigm and the weaponization of memory (Klein, 2024). Particular attention is given to power asymmetry as an ethical condition shaping the possibility of articulating this third narrative. | |