The idea of the program
The Peace Education program has five different segments that are broken down into a series of eight workshops.
1) Moving from general knowledge to details. We begin with each student’s personal views, feelings, thoughts and ideas about what is happening in Middle East. From there, students will expand their views and try to understand and question their sources of information. This will lead them to take a closer look at the media, questioning whose interests it serves and whether it is objective.
Students will then examine Windows Magazine, which is an alternative form of media in that it reflects several sides of the same story and is created by youth from different sides of the conflict. With the help of issue number 27 of the magazine, “1948 and Us," students will learn about the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from various points of view. They will then use a conflict resolution tool called “conflict tree” to map out the Middle East conflict in order to gain a better understanding of its complex history.
Moving from past to present. After students have identified the roots of the conflict, they will learn about the current situation in the Middle East, including the global powers involved (Europe, the US, and the UN).
Moving from present to future. Students and teachers will think together: what can be done to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Who can make a difference, and how (including the role of Europe and other global elements)?
Moving from one conflict to others. After gaining a better understanding of the past, present and future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, students can turn their gaze back to themselves and their own societies, and deal with questions such as: What can we learn about our own lives from studying the conflict? What are some of the conflicts we have encountered (and still encounter) in our own society? How can we transform them?
Moving from ideas to action plan. We then move to the final part of the Windows’ process – students will deal with the question: How do we make our lives/our society/our world better? The students will develop several action plans for local activism.
1) Moving from general knowledge to details. We begin with each student’s personal views, feelings, thoughts and ideas about what is happening in Middle East. From there, students will expand their views and try to understand and question their sources of information. This will lead them to take a closer look at the media, questioning whose interests it serves and whether it is objective.
Students will then examine Windows Magazine, which is an alternative form of media in that it reflects several sides of the same story and is created by youth from different sides of the conflict. With the help of issue number 27 of the magazine, “1948 and Us," students will learn about the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from various points of view. They will then use a conflict resolution tool called “conflict tree” to map out the Middle East conflict in order to gain a better understanding of its complex history.
Moving from past to present. After students have identified the roots of the conflict, they will learn about the current situation in the Middle East, including the global powers involved (Europe, the US, and the UN).
Moving from present to future. Students and teachers will think together: what can be done to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Who can make a difference, and how (including the role of Europe and other global elements)?
Moving from one conflict to others. After gaining a better understanding of the past, present and future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, students can turn their gaze back to themselves and their own societies, and deal with questions such as: What can we learn about our own lives from studying the conflict? What are some of the conflicts we have encountered (and still encounter) in our own society? How can we transform them?
Moving from ideas to action plan. We then move to the final part of the Windows’ process – students will deal with the question: How do we make our lives/our society/our world better? The students will develop several action plans for local activism.