Projects of "Friendship Village"
for 2006-7
1) Talk Peace Make Peace 2006
Summary: The Project will bring together on a continuous basis, young Palestinian and Israeli
political and community leaders, in order to learn about each other on the personal, the cultural, the
social and the political levels. The purpose is to develop an open dialogue and to build trust between
young leaders that will - at least some of them - join in the next future, the circles of decision makers
of the two societies.
Number of participants :
Fifteen participants from each side: all together 30 young leaders. All of them active in their
communities or in political organization they belong to. Some of them are already in position
of middle level decision makers.
Age: 20 - 35
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2) Young Educators for Peace & Human Rights
Goals:
Purpose of the Project is to build – in cooperation with the Emeq Yizre'el Academic College, the
Levinsky College for Education, the Haifa University, a hard core of young Israeli Jewish and Arab
women teachers and students in Teachers’ Seminar, who will use as agents of change, in spreading
the idea of human rights and democracy in Israeli schools. The process will take 4 X 16 sessions of 4
academic hours each, in which a total of 80 participants (40 Jews, 40 Arabs) will develop an inter-
cultural dialogue about their identity, about racism, meaning of democracy and human rights – and
ways and methods to educate toward these values.
The project will focus on coping with growing racism, anti-democratic attitude and violence in the
Israeli society, on feminine way for peaceful conflict resolution, on search for common ground to
cooperate on basis of mutual respect and real equality and on methods to educate young people
toward them.
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3) Young Leaders Talk Peace - Make Peace - 2006
Goals:
The Project will develop a dialogue, between young Palestinian and Israeli Youth Organizations'
leaders, in order to learn about each other on the personal, the cultural, the social and the
political levels. The purpose is to develop an open relationships and to build trust between young
leaders that will - at least some of them - join in the next future, the circles of decision makers of
the two societies.
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4) Walk in Peace
Jewish - Arab hiking circle, in order to form a core of young youth-movements leaders, Arabs and
Jews, which will introduce the other's narrative in front of their group members and peer group. The
mutual narrative introduction will bindingly take place in the hidings which are also integral part in
the activity of most youth movements in Israel. Through the acquaintance with the other's culture,
history and attitudes, stereotypes will be diminished and a common ground will be established for
co-operation between Arab and Jewish youth groups.
"Walk in Peace" offers new attractive initiative for dialogue. Through the joint travel it offers
acquaintance which is intensive and continual, conflictive and expressive. "Walk in Peace" is unique
in combining both attitudes: the Dialogical-interpersonal and the conflictive-collective.
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5) Beyond the Barriers; A Multi - cultural Training Program
Bringing together activists and facilitators of NGOs who are working on Inter-Ethnic dialogue,
in countries that are in a state of continuous ethnic or national conflict, in order to exchange
experience and ideas how to cope with the situation in their countries.
They will learn about conflict resolution methods and about possible role of the youth in
creation of a peaceful multi-cultural society.
Will be hold in Summer 2006.
Participants: 30 NGO activists and facilitators from Europe and the Middle-East
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6) Nemashim ; (Youth play peace)
The "Nemashim" Project brings together Israeli Jewish and Arab-Palestinian volunteers who
have graduated from high school and use theatre as a means to develop dialogue, mutual
respect and cooperation between two communities in Haifa: the Jewish "Newe Yoseph" and
the Arab "Halisa" low-income neighborhoods. We all are living in the middle of a terrible,
destructive conflict and we feel that a way out is by developing peaceful resistance to
violence, realising the ideals of equality and co-existence in a mixed group and by using
theatre to advance these ideals.
The group is made of 5 young volunteers who will live together in a shared appartment (called
"communa"), work 2 days a week for maintenance and devoting the rest of time to educational
cultural and other community activities, most of them through theatre.
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7) Young People Against Racism (an Academic Course)
Purpose of the Project is to build, in cooperation with several academic institutions a core of
young Israeli teachers and students to be as mediators in spreading the idea of human rights
and democracy in Israeli formal and informal educational systems. The project will focus on
coping with growing racism, xenophobia, anti-democratic attitudes and violence in Israeli
society. In In addition the project will develop avenues for peaceful conflict resolution, by
identifying common ground to cooperate based on mutual respect and real equality. The
project will also develop methods to educate young people toward peaceful conflict resolution.
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