Team Personal Stories
"Invisible Light began from my frustrations with UN and media and conflict management practices worldwide that I observed and participated in that were absent evidenced-based knowledge obtained through critical and empirical assessment and evaluation research, dreams to do something to change that, and my own observations and experiences with impunity in the face of injustice lived by conflict zones young people and/or disabled peoples. This Foundation seeks to shrink that bad and forge better visions and systems. It also seeks to improve communication internal to and about those systems, alongside mechanisms for retaining and enforcing them ... "
Yael Warshel, Founding Director
Conflict Zones Children and Disabled Peoples' Stories Establishing an Urgent and Ongoing Need for This Work
8 year old Palestinian girl
"Jews" are not Palestinian because "the Palestinian doesn’t kill people and the Jew kills people.. and expels them"
8 year old Jewish Israeli girl
A Palestinian [as a drawing] is a male adult clad in a ski mask, an image Jewish Israelis typically associate with a terrorist
5 year old Arab/Palestinian Israeli boy
"His clothes are Arab, [not Jewish Israeli]. His clothes are not like the police"
Arab/Palestinian Israeli child
'We have to keep our environment healthy. We shouldn’t throw trash in the street. It's our [“Jews” and “Palestinians” alike] “ country” (“dowle- taina” in Arabic), so you should take care of it!”"
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" We can all get together and make peace "
Sahrawi Youth
If I had a state, I would have a school
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I have never seen someone who looks like me on TV
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Person with hidden disabilities
Being told by the very person responsible for coordinating disability accommodations—who has wantonly chosen to revoke them despite repeatedly providing documented proof of a permanent disability—“You’re the only one who sees it that way [that you are disabled].”
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Person with disabilities
"Being told you’re a 'hassle' by the person responsible for coordinating disability accommodations because you follow-up about accommodations never implemented—or revoked—and then threatened with, 'Other accommodations could go away too.' 'I’m just saying,'"