March 29th, 2022

AFF and NCL concluded their two day conference that highlighted Lebanon's deeply rooted crisis under the title: Lebanon, a united entity to be divided, or a divided country to be united

The conference was held on March 24 and 25 in the "Rahbani Brothers' Hall" in the Monastery Of "Mar Elias-Antelias".

On day one, March 24, 2022, the conferees discussed in two separate sessions the Lebanese structural discrepancies prior to the "Taif Agreement", as well as the numerous developments that followed it. The discussions shed light on the political imbalances, proposed the necessary means to correct them, and openly highlighted the dire differences related to the identity and sovereignty concepts, the economy and growth tribulations, the constitutional inconsistencies, and the need for the power separation between all governing authorities.

The conferees concluded that the causes of the deep Lebanese structural discrepancies lie in the solid fact that Lebanon is a pluralistic country, while the ruling -governance setup formulas are not compatible with the plurality of its multicultural and diversified communities. Accordingly, there is an urgent need to come with an improvised formula that is compatible with the Lebanese pluralistic structure, in a bid to overcome the on going painful realities that the people, the state, and the institutions are encountering.

On the second day, March 25, 2022, the conferees addressed the systematic and organized vicious quests that aim to change the Lebanese identity, and to obviate Lebanon's intellectual and cultural heritage.

During the session that carried the title: From Killing Based On The Identity, To Killing With The Identity", the focus was on the systematized means that direct, control, mislead, poison and distort the public Lebanese awareness, through forging history books, and by giving full freedom and access to media and all social facilities to Trojan influential figures in numerous domains, as well as electronic armies who advocate and promote rumors, and news that serve foreign, regional, and international anti-Lebanese agendas. In this same distorting and deviating context, media facilities prioritize entertainment programs, political dialogues, talk shows and trivial drama serials, while marginalizing totally cultural and national issues, on the pretext that the Lebanese drama, is below the level required to be marketed. Accordingly the Lebanese TV Channels are stormed with programs, series, movies, and dialects that are alien to the deeply rooted Lebanese traditions, customs, culture and diversity of the Lebanese society. In the same context, the conferees shed light on the fabrication of security and judicial cases against patriotic activists in all fields, as well as the spreading of false rumors, and their dire impacts on the society.

In the last session of the conference, The "Le Nouveau Cenacle Lebanese (NCL)" presented its integrated proposal to save Lebanon, under the title “Revival and Salvation.” The proposal was thoroughly discussed and dissected by constitutional, legal, and financial experts who unanimously agreed that the SOS rescuing map laid out in the proposal is suitable, clear, and applicable for bringing back Lebanon to the shores of democracy, that preserves freedom, particularity, and equality for all Lebanese Multicultural and diversified communities, under the rule of law.

Meanwhile, and despite the conviction of the conferees that the regional and international current status quo is not suitable for the implementation of the "Revival and Salvation" proposal, they encouraged NCL not to give up, and to proceed with its implementation mechanisms.

Based on all that was discussed during the conference, NCL began to prepare a charter, that paves the way to restore the confidence and interest of the international community in Lebanon, and thus urging the United Nations to help liberate the Lebanese decision making process, and at the same time helping the Lebanese in improvising an appropriate governance formula for living together, within the frames of their pluralism.