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Friendship Village
International Center for Education for Peace and Human Rights in a Multi-Cultural Society
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Friendship Village Projects for 2009-10
This program offers Israeli Jewish and Arab women teachers and education students an opportunity to engage in cross-cultural discourse focusing on the salient themes effecting young Israeli women today.
Through semester-long academic courses, the young female participants of the project will begin to pave the way for peaceful inter-cultural coexistence and cooperation between the two estranged sides.
Participants: 90 Israeli Jewish and Arab college students and 30 teachers.
In cooperation with Emeq Yizre'el Academic College, Oranim Academic College and Gordon College for Education in Haifa.
This project engages young Palestinian and Israeli political and community leaders to learn about each other on the personal, cultural, social and political levels. The project’s goal is to develop an open dialogue for building trust between these young leaders who are expected to be the future decision makers of the two societies.
Participants: Twelve Palestinian and twelve Israeli male and female participants (ages 20-35). All of the twenty-four participants are active in their communities and/or in the political organizations and parties they belong to. Many already assume mid-level decision-making positions.
In cooperation with the Palestinian Institute for Peace & Democracy.
The Nemashim project brings together Israeli Jewish and Arab high-school graduates who are devoting one year of their lives to promote Jewish-Arab dialogue in Israel. Through artistic and educational endeavors, these six young volunteers work primarily with the marginalized populations living in underprivileged, multi-cultural neighborhoods throughout Haifa.
The group uses the theatre and theatrical productions to develop artistic skills while building a basis for mutual respect and understanding between the inhabitants of "Halisa," a low-income Arab neighborhood, and "Newe Yosef" a nearby Jewish neighborhood.
Developed in conjunction with several academic institutions, this project is an effort to create a core of young Israeli teachers and students who will be able to disseminate ideas of human rights and democracy from within Israel’s formal and informal educational systems. The project will focus on coping with the growing racism, xenophobia, violence and anti-democratic attitudes prevailing in Israeli society. In addition, participants will learn to identify common grounds for cooperation based on mutual respect and real equality. Facilitators and lecturers for the project will help project participants to define methodologies for peaceful conflict resolution that they can in turn impart in the education of their own students.
In cooperation with the Levinsky College for Education and the Haifa University.
Beyond the Barriers - Summer Training Program
This annual international seminar is for political activists, leaders and facilitators from European, Israeli and Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs), who work in the field of inter-ethnic dialogue.
Participants: 30 (from eight countries).
Go in Peace
Through this Jewish-Arab hiking journey, participants discover the history of Israel through the languages, narratives cultures and traditions of the two nations.
Participants: 20-40 (ages 18-25)
Note:
Friendship Village is devoted to continuing its programs annually and expanding them according to secured financial resources.
