By Deb First | Board of Directors
For the ninth consecutive year, NSWAS youth were a central part of a three-week intercultural youth leadership program.
Held at the Artsbridge Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, NSWAS youth brought their considerable youth-club skills (Nadi) leadership skills to their work as counselors, helping guide 30 Israeli, Palestinian and American youth through an intensive leadership program.
Focused on building partnerships and overcoming cultural differences through art and facilitated open dialogue, the program challenges preconceived notions of culture, religion and friendship.
In August, an international educational organization offering social action programs in Israel, concluded their Onward Israel Diversity & Pluralism summer internship program with time at NSWAS. With 35 years and counting of peaceful coexistence, pioneering educational, social, professional and spiritual programs, NSWAS is an invaluable resource and, more significantly, it is an inspiration for international and local peace-based work.
The Winsipration Day award, given in recognition for outstanding work and dedication toward peace, honored the community and projects of NSWAS at their annual ceremony in Austria. A Palestinian-Israeli journalist and A Jewish- Israeli educator, both longtime residents of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, were present to receive the award. The work of the NSWAS community is having an impact in Europe that may begin as an inspiration, but it will deepen over time to serve as a role model.
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