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Do the People Silencing Bereaved Parents Know Our Pain? (Israel/Palestine)

/ Opinion

According to the American Friends of the Parents Circle – Families Forum, “the Israeli government has recently announced its intention to restrict the Parents Circle’s public activities, starting with the removal of its Dialogue Meeting programs from Israeli schools…based on false allegations that the Dialogue Meetings [it often hosts in schools] denigrates IDF soldiers.”  The dialogue meetings being challenged are led by two PCFF members, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who tell their personal stories of bereavement and explain their choice to engage in dialogue instead of revenge.

New education pack on peacebuilding in Palestine and Israel

/ Curricula

Quakers in Britain have launched a new education pack about the impact of conflict and stories of peacebuilding in Palestine and Israel. “Razor Wire & Olive Branches” draws on eyewitness accounts of human rights monitors to explore the conflict through the lives of those affected by it.

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Teach Palestine

/ Curricula

The Teach Palestine Project website is a resource by and for k-12 teachers and teacher-educators focused on introducing Palestine into their classrooms and schools.  Few U.S. schools teach about Palestine – this project seeks to change that.  

How thousands of Palestinian and Israeli women are waging peace

/ News & Highlights

Thousands of Palestinian and Israeli women marched in Jerusalem and Jericho this month demanding peace from their societies. They are doing so by reaching past and through stereotypes and artificial boundaries to find true partners. Such efforts are given little, often inaccurately reported and interpreted, coverage by the standard media. So it is through the networks of women’s civil society organizations and initiatives that we learn of them. We believe that linking peace educators’ networks to those of civil society activists is essential to the field’s having the information necessary to inquiring into the multiple possibilities for action among those they are educating for responsible global citizenship. So we offer this article hoping that it will be adapted for peacelearning purposes.

Palestinian Peace Teacher Announced One of Top Ten in the World

/ News & Highlights

Hanan Al-Hroub, a primary class teacher who grew up in Deheishe refugee camp, Bethlehem, has been shortlisted to the top 10 international teachers nominated for the one million dollar 2016 Global Teacher Prize, organised by the Varkey Foundation. The inspirational teacher was regularly exposed to acts of violence. She went into primary education after her children were left deeply traumatized by a shooting incident they witnessed on their way home from school. With so many troubled children in the region, Palestinian classrooms can be tense environments. Hanan embraces the slogan ‘No to Violence’ and uses a specialist approach she developed herself, detailed in her book, ‘We Play and Learn’.

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