2008: The One Million Voices to End the Conflict Campaign

The Mandate · On the Ground · International Engagement · Media Campaigns

One Million Voices to End the Conflict is a year-long campaign to rally citizens behind their elected representatives as they engage in uninterrupted negotiations towards reaching a two-state agreement within a year of beginning negotiations - by December 12, 2008. As such, OneVoice will be organizing programs throughout the year both regionally and worldwide to ensure that the voice of the moderate majority does not go unheard.

The Mandate

In order to create the necessary tipping point, OneVoice must be able to harness broad consensus among the Israeli and Palestinian peoples – as well as supporters worldwide – towards a two-state solution. The OneVoice Mandate is the primary tool to unite moderates on both sides behind a key set of principles.

OneVoice has already amassed more than 600,000 Israeli and Palestinian signatories, and it aims to reach one million through the campaign, in order to demonstrate to the leadership and the people on both sides that there is a partner for negotiations and conflict resolution.

OneVoice plans to deliver the signed mandates to the doorsteps of the Israeli Knesset and the Palestinian Legislative Council. Whenever possible, these OneVoice delegations will meet in person with government representatives to further the message.

On the Ground

The main focus of OneVoice’s work to date has been building a grassroots infrastructure of moderates in Israel and Palestine. This process will continue for the One Million Voices Campaign, with expanded local canvassing, recruitment, and programming. OneVoice aims to extend its outreach into villages, towns, and refugee camps throughout the region through monthly events on each side of the conflict.

2008 programming in Israel and Palestine will run on three tracks, with the following specific aims:

Creating a sense of urgency: The Time is Now Campaign
Visualizing the potential: The 2018 Campaign
Understanding the process: Focus on Civic Education

International Engagement

The support of the international community is needed to achieve OneVoice’s goal of a two-state agreement by December of 2008.

At a grassroots level in the international community, OneVoice’s International Education Program is working to build OneVoice chapters at colleges, universities, and communities throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada, and to ensure that the OneVoice Echo continues through the year with events during each campus tour. To find out about bringing OneVoice’s International Education Program to your community or campus, please contact Laurel Rapp at laurel@onevoicemovement.org.

Concurrent with grassroots outreach, OneVoice is also organizing an international speaking tour of major world capitals, bringing the OneVoice executive leadership and activists to meet with world leaders for briefings. Potential stops on the tour include: London, Cairo, Amman, Riyadh, Washington, D.C., and Ottawa.

Media Campaigns

Throughout the year, OneVoice will continue and expand its media outreach through a series of media campaigns, including internet banners, viral videos and emails, and symbolic campaigns. The first of these is the “Clock Campaign” – OneVoice is unveiling a series of clocks both in Israel and in Palestine, counting down backward to December 12, 2008 as a symbolic message to both the leaders and the people that “time is running out to end the conflict.”