Today's Mideast leaders could learn from the nonviolent philosophy and practices of famed U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., his son said Monday at a forum in Jerusalem.

Martin Luther King III addressed a conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem that centered on his father's teachings. After decades of armed conflict, he said Middle East peoples should adopt nonviolence to turn the dreams into action.

At the conference, King told his listeners that "we are all interrelated, and now we are even more challenged for this interdependence." He said his father's message of love and peace could be applied in the Mideast.