Event reports
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. in Jerusalem in cooperation with its partners, the Palestinian House for Professional Solutions (HPS), Amman Center for Peace and Development (ACPD) and Shaar Hanegev High School successfully started the EU co-funded project "Utilizing Middle Eastern Civic Education as a Leverage for Peace". First event of the project was the "Inception Workshop" taking place at April 17th in the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center in Jerusalem under attendance of Mr. Alessandro Campo, Delegation of the EC to Jordan, Virginia Cezilly Fernandez de Liger, ECTAO Westbank and Gaza, and Alexandra Meir, Delegation of the EC to Israel.
The general aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of the history of democracy in the Middle East and to lead the local populations to more peaceful relations between them. This aim shall be reached by establishing educational tools and mechanisms on peace and democracy education through 15 schools in Israel, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories and Jordan and by building up a network and initiating a dialogue ensuring the sustainability of these tools and mechanisms.
Together with its three partners from Israel, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories and Jordan the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung will train 88 teachers from 15 different schools on a specified program on civic education and provide them with the tools to communicate through classroom programs their knowledge to their students. Furthermore the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung will organize and coordinate Get-Together and Action Plan Workshops with selected students from respective schools.
At the end of the two years the project intends to establish a comprehensive education program on peace and tolerance that should be implemented into the curricula of the selected schools in Israel, the Palestinian Autonomous Territories and Jordan and to widely spread the developed tools and mechanisms for peace education throughout the region. In addition an intercultural exchange on tolerance and peace between the students of the selected schools will be initiated and supported.
The project is co-financed by the EU and is implemented by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and its partners in the framework of the EU Partnership for Peace Program.
Further information can be obtained from Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the KAS office in Jerusalem office@kasisrael.org, and Annika Lübke, Project Coordinator annika.luebke@kasisrael.org, telephone: +972(2)5671830).