December, 7-12, 2006
Lucknow, India

Name:

Dr Jona Bargur


 


Dr Jona Bargur

Designation

Organization/Institution

Forum of Bereaved Israel and Palestinian

Country

ISRAEL

   

Short Biography

A Ph.D in Engineering and Economist Systems from Stanford University, California, Dr. Jona Bargur has served in the Israeli Army before joining Tahal Consulting Engineers Ltd. His professional work has taken him to several countries of the world including Botswana, Ethiopia, China, Nigeria etc. Currently he is a member of the Parents’ Circle-Families Forum-Bereaved Families Supporting Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance and an Israeli Board Member. Ever since he lost his son in Israeli-Palestinian war he has been actively working for peace and reconciliation between the two nations. He is sorry to see that “Social conscience has ceased” to consider life of man inferior to the sanctity of land. He wants “a world of social justice peace and tolerance instead of a world of death and graves.”

   

Organized by
World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD)*
*an initiative of City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, India