Beyond Bridges: Israel Palestine is a summer program that takes university students to the Middle East on a journey of comparative conflict analysis and conflict transformation. The program combines rigorous academics and practical hands-on training, allowing students to explore questions at the core of all conflicts. This program aims to create spaces for both personal and collective growth, helping students gain new understandings of the roles they play in international conflicts, and how this relates to their political identities. Moving beyond the stage of practical peace agreements, or “beyond bridges,” we challenge participants to look at long-term solutions to end inter-communal conflict, transforming societies into their true potential.

Trip Dates: June 28 to July 22, 2010

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Beyond Bridges is a program that takes university students of all backgrounds on a journey of transformation, combining rigorous academics and practical hands-on training to prepare them to work with groups in conflict. Our goal is to move beyond the stage of practical peace agreements or ‘building bridges.’ We transform students to look at long-term solutions to end inter-communal conflict. Peace agreements do not ensure long-term sustainability; only education does.

Our first Facilitaion Training Course, offered in partnership with both Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution and the University of San Francisco in January 2009, was co-designed and supervised by Ahmad Hijazi, a pre-eminent facilitator and the Director of the acclaimed School for Peace in Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, and Co-Senior Facilitators Ahmad Amara and Dror Post. This was the first time that a course utilizing the School for Peace's groundbreaking model of working with groups in conflict was offered in the United States. In January 2010 we are offering this course for the second consecutive year; Amara and Post will be co-teaching and co-facilitating this course as well.