Martin Luther King III will speak at an upcoming conference in Ramallah on Strengthening Nonviolence in Palestine, the conference's host institutions announced Monday.
The Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND) and The Center for Democracy and Community Development (CDCD), said King would deliver a speech at the conference, and discuss the role of nonviolence as a vehicle for ending of the occupation.
The conference will focus on the use on nonviolence in forwarding the aim of creating an independent Palestinian state, organizers said in a statement.
Non-violent and popular resistance activities have been supported recently by both Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials, with the five-year trend of weekly anti-wall protests spreading beyond the founding villages of Nil'in and Bil'in, to five villages protesting on a regular basis, and dozens of others holding rallies to mark significant occasions.
In Gaza, groups continue to non-violently protest the imposition of an Israeli controlled no-go zone eating up what experts say is 20% of the arable land in the Strip, using non-violent marches.
Following the detention of Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki at the Palm Sunday demonstration, Fatah officials called for an escalation in non-violent protests.
King will speak on the issue at the Best Eastern Hotel in Ramallah on 14 April.
On Monday Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of the late Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, visited the West Bank village of Bil'in, where he praised popular committee members for their role in promoting non-violent resistance. Full story
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