By School for Peace | Neve Shalom Wahat al Salam " the Oasis of Peace"
Program interviews and evaluations demonstrate that the youth encounter workshops do achieve their goals, stated above. Participants gain a deeper understanding of themselves, of the conflict, of the role identity plays in the conflict and acquire dialogue tools that allow them to gain respect and understanding for one another, even though they may disagree.
The following two excerpts, one from a Jewish participant and one from a Palestinian participant, were selected from the numerous evaluations from of the youth encounter workshops because of their representative nature. These excerpts demonstrate the impact of the program.
The workshop offered us the framework and the time to confront difficult questions, and to reach a point at which we could listen to each other without feeling a need to compete over who suffers more. We saw that as Jews and Palestinians we shared a mutual need to have our pain recognized, or understood, by the other.
-Jewish participant
In this workshop we talked about creating better relations between these two peoples who live on this land. I don’t know whether we were successful. But I am persuaded more than ever that we have no choice but coexistence. I feel after this workshop that the conflict isn’t just territorial or geographic, but very much more centered on the quality of our relations as two peoples who are bound to one another whether we like it or not—we have to find ways of understanding that.
-Palestinian participant
By American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam | Admin
By American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam | Admin
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