Toward Life-Coherent Peace in the Middle East
Sacred Memory, Structural Violence, and the Protection of the Life-GroundBy Dr. Bichara Sahely
Length1h 8m
About this audiobook
Toward Life-Coherent Peace in the Middle East offers a life-grounded framework for rethinking one of the world’s most wounded conflict systems. Moving beyond victory logic, punitive security, sacred entitlement, and moral denunciation, Dr Bichara Sahely asks what must be protected so that all affected peoples can live, grieve, remember, repair, and flourish without destroying the life-ground of others. Drawing on life-value ethics, peace theory, autopoiesis, structural violence analysis, and sacred memory, this audiobook proposes a simple but demanding discipline: no wound denied, no wound enthroned. Jewish trauma, Palestinian dispossession, Israeli fear, Arab and Muslim humiliation, Iranian insecurity, minority vulnerability, and external manipulation must all be acknowledged — but none may justify new life-destruction. Peace here is not the silence after violence, but the organized presence of life-supporting conditions.
Audiobook details
GenrePolitics and Government, Philosophy
Length1 hr 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Author’s Opening Note
3Opening Dedication
4From the 2017 Cry to the Present Framework
5Method and Scope
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6Why the Conflict Cannot Be Solved at the Level at Which It Is Usually Framed
7The Failure of Victory Logic
8The Failure of Symmetry Without Justice
9The Failure of Sacred Absolutism
10The Three Foundational Lenses
11McMurtry: The Life-Ground Test
12Galtung: Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
13Maturana: Emotioning, Languaging, and Legitimate Coexistence
14A Life-Coherent Diagnosis of the Middle East Conflict System
15Wounds Converted into Weapons
16The Life-Ground Under Assault
17External Capture and the Political Economy of War
18The Legal-Humanitarian Baseline
19The Life-Coherent Peace Protocol
20Movement One: Protect the Life-Ground First
21Movement Two: Name All Wounds Without Weaponizing Them
22Movement Three: Distinguish Life-Needs from Domination Strategies
23Movement Four: Transform Sacred Memory into Custodial Responsibility
24Movement Five: Build Civil-Commons Peace Infrastructure
25Movement Six: Create Participatory Truth, Mourning, and Repair Processes
26Movement Seven: Disarm the Political Economy of Perpetual War
27What Wu-Wei Means Here
28The Life-Coherence Arbitration Test
29Policy Implications
30Immediate Priorities
31Medium-Term Priorities
32Long-Term Priorities
33Conclusion: No Wound Denied, No Wound Enthroned
34Closing Reflection
35A Listener’s Historical Timeline
361917 — The Balfour Declaration
371922 to 1947 — British Mandate Palestine
381947 — The United Nations Partition Plan
391948 — The Creation of Israel, War, and Palestinian Displacement
401967 — Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza
411979 — The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
421993 — The Oslo Accords
432006 Onward — Gaza, Hamas, Blockade, and Repeated Wars
447 October 2023 and After — Attack, Hostages, War, and Regional Escalation
452024 — International Legal Intervention
462024 to 2025 — Ceasefire Proposals and Transitional Architectures
47The Life-Ground Pattern
48Glossary of Core Terms for Listeners
49Life-Ground
50Life-Value
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