Summer Experiential Learning Program for Palestinian, Jewish, and Israeli Students June 27 to July 23, 2007

Application Deadline: February 1, 2007

The Vision Program is receiving applications from Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli undergraduate college students (irrespective of citizenship) who are attending schools in the United States for a four-week experiential learning trip to the former Yugoslavia.

This program is committed to equal participation of Jewish and Palestinian staff and students. It combines both academic and personal engagement with conflict-related issues such as nationalism, violence/nonviolence, and power dynamics.

Traveling together in Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, students will engage in an intensive comparative conflict analysis program that educates them about the Balkan wars of the 1990s, explores analytical connections with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and allows students to reflect on their own relationship to both conflicts as well as to one another.
The program is partially funded but opportunities for full funding are available. If admitted, no student will be denied participation based on financial limitations.For more information, please contact one of the Vision Program Co-Directors Ziad Abu-Rish (ziad@abrahamsvision.org) and Orli Fridman (orli@abrahamsvision.org).