The School for Peace

Supporting a 60 year-old Bedouin village under threat of destruction sometimes means that School For Peace faculty and their children will establish a library in that village, offering encouragement - a needed resource as a vision for a
future.

The village of Umm al-Hiran became a living project in a School for Peace environmental
justice course, which also connected with the southern Hebron hills. Villages in this region were being assisted by COMET-ME, an organization providing green energy and water to unrecognized villages. School for Peace students experienced.

The challenges these Israeli villages face. Whether it is a library or clean water, they experienced being part of the solution to those challenges. Forty young emerging politicians are being
prepared by the School for Peace, through year-long seminars and projects, to be future leaders invested
in working toward peace through a program designed to connect theory, actions and consequences.

Can we imagine the outcome as this academic year unfolds, of several dozen high school teachers from across Israel choosing to spend some of their summer vacation focusing on the struggle against racism, or learning how to teach Palestinian poetry in Jewish classrooms? 

“At Neve Shalom, I finally understood my connection to all the conquests and expulsions: not a legal connection, but one of silence, of acquiescence, of resigning myself to let it happen. It’s about responsibility.”
- human rights attorney and SFP graduate.