By Ahmad Hijazi | School for Peace Director
Recently, there have been two youth encounter workshops. In addition, we conducted a uninational workshop for Jewish students. The School for Peace is gradually shifting its activities from the classic youth encounter model to longer and more serious activities. This is only partly due to a lack of available funding for this kind of activity: another factor is that in the current political atmosphere, in which young people express widespread pessimism, rightward swing, growing racism and lack of interest in the other side, it becomes harder to conduct a substantive short-term encounter according the classic format. The following two projects are examples of longer-term youth activities that we are now attempting to develop.
A Youth Environmental Leadership Project, funded by the United Nations Development Program, is continuing, with the most recent workshop taking place in May. The project engages six schools in Israel and the Palestinian authority.
A Human Rights Project for Youth, supported by a 15,000 Euro grant from the Dutch Friends of NSWAS to conduct a youth leadership project in human rights, will hopefully take place at the beginning of the 2012 – 2013 school year (we are currently making contact with schools). The plan is to work with a group of about 20 Jewish and Arab students who will lead the project in 2 – 4 high schools.
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By Ahmad Hijazi | Director of the School for Peace
By Perrine Vaillant | American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
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