By Deb First | Board of Directors
Negotiating Peace – Students from Givat Brener and Nazareth High Schools
The School for Peace began its work over thirty years ago with 'youth encounters'. Most recently, the SFP held a three-day residential encounter for sixty-one 11th graders from Givat Brener School (outside of Rehovot), and Nazareth High School. The students addressed the conflict directly and seriously. Issues of rights and responsibility (army service) are always difficult yet important subjects that they discuss as well as terrorism and violence. The simulations of future agreements and learning how to live together generate new ways of thinking for each participant.
"This experience was different than anything I have experienced in my every-day life. I arrived with a lot of stigmas, like Arabs don't pay taxes and are against the Jews. I was exposed to the ideas and beliefs of the other and their views on the situation. I admit you broke my stereotypes. I now understand that the situation that I thought was complicated is really complex."
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