OneVoice Movement
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| Formation | 2002 |
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| Type | Non-profit Organization |
| Headquarters | New York, NY with offices in London, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.. |
| Website | www |
The OneVoice Movement, founded in 2002, is a global initiative that supports grassroots activists in Israel, Palestine, and internationally who are working to build the human infrastructure needed to create the necessary conditions for a just and negotiated resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
OneVoice's programming is centered in the United States and Europe, aimed at creating the international conditions necessary for a just and lasting peace. Additionally, OneVoice supports the work of regional partners based in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, who are working to reverse rising trends of extremism within both societies and empower moderates to reclaim national narratives.
OneVoice's work is predicated on a vision of an independent and viable Palestine and a secure Israel free from conflict, where Palestinians and Israelis are able to realize their national and individual aspirations, building a future based upon principles of security, justice, dignity and peace. OneVoice believes that a negotiated and permanent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an end to occupation is not only a moral imperative, but an existential priority for both societies.
OneVoice works with regional partners in Israel and Palestine who are similarly committed to nonviolent conflict resolution and reversing trends of polarization and extremism, building a social context upon which a solution can be agreed upon and implemented. Simultaneously, OneVoice carries out programs catered to the international community, running highly visible, sustained programming to educate and engage communities, reducing and eliminating Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and all forms of racism from the Israeli-Palestinian discourse.
OneVoice is unique because it takes a comprehensive approach to resolving the conflict. In Israel and Palestine, it supports partners on the ground who empower grassroots activists and the next generation of change-makers. Recognizing that the conflict has regional and international dimensions, and that events on the ground have severe global consequences, OneVoice also facilitates programs and advocacy efforts internationally to galvanize and shape a broad coalition—spanning different faiths and crossing ideological and political lines—that can reduce polarization and hate, and demonstrate one strong and coherent voice for resolving the conflict through nonviolent means.
OneVoice was founded by entrepreneur Daniel Lubetzky in the spring of 2002 in the wake of the failure at the 2000 Camp David Summit and renewed violence between Israelis and Palestinians. OneVoice emerged from Lubetzky’s previous venture, Peaceworks,Inc., on the principle that economic cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians would result in stronger relations. OneVoice was to be a forum for moderate Israelis and Palestinians to express themselves and their desires for peace through a negotiated two-state solution.
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