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Defining "Coexistence"
	Helen Chauncey defines coexistence.
	Helen Chauncey defines "coexistence" in terms of the constructive embracing of identity and diversity.
	Angela Khaminwa emphasizes the flexibility of meanings of the concept "coexistence."
Why Coexistence Matters
	Angela Khaminwa quotes Susan Collin Marks, "If we don't coexist, we all co-destruct."
	Helen Chauncey likens their work in achieving coexistence to the early human-rights era.
Working for Coexistence
	Helen Chauncey explores the similarities between transformative mediation and their coexistence work.
	Helen Chauncey says intervenors should not be neutral when it comes to identity issues, rather they should be bi-partisan.
	Sarah Peterson and Angela Khaminwa say that coexistence must be developed slowly over time.
	Helen Chauncey explains how fear can interfere with coexistence efforts.
	Angela Khaminwa and Sarah Peterson explain the interrelationship between peacebuilding and coexistence work.
	Angela Khaminwa and Sarah Peterson discuss ways to "scale up" coexistence work to the national level to address issues of structural violence.
	Angela Khaminwa, Program Officer for Outreach and Communication at The Coexistence Initiative, discusses shortcomings of training in the field, describes her current work on coexistence and social inclusion policies.
Case Examples
	Sarah Peterson describes a negotiation process in South Africa involving land reform that has, with effort, led to longer-term coexistence.
	Coexistence is a situation in which people embrace diverse identities constructively. Helen Chauncey explains this notion in the context of Cyprus.

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We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder