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Transforming the Present, Shaping the Future
Sunday, 07 September 2008
"Abraham's Vision is precisely that, a vision of the future. Created and run by young next generation activists, AV is charting new and very significant territory, building the understanding and capacity for coexistence and ultimately peace and justice between Muslims and Jews, Arabs and Israelis. I am honored to serve this forward-looking organization!"
- Peter Geffen, 2007 Chair of the Board of Directors

Mission Statement

Abraham’s Vision is a conflict transformation organization that explores group and individual identities through experiential and political education. Examining social relations within and between the Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, and Palestinian communities, we empower participants to practice just alternatives to the status quo.


Who we are

How are we unique?

Staff Experience

Founded in 2003, in September 2005 we launched our first year-round program, the Unity Program, followed in June 2006 by our pilot Vision Program. Though a variety of Abraham's Vision educators work on our programs, workshops, and presentations, we currently have fifteen year-round staffers:

Houda Abadi (Director of Unity Programs)
Ahmad Amara (Co-Senior Facilitator)
Huda Abu Arqoub (Co-Executive Director, Director of Vision Program)
Aaron Hahn Tapper (Co-Executive Director, Founder)
Marjon Kashani (Unity Program Co-Educator)
Jessie Lanoil (Unity Program Co-Educator)
Yasmeen Peer (Management Consultant)
Dror Post (Co-Senior Facilitator)
Emily Siegel (Assistant Director of Unity Programs, Director of Alumni Development)
Eitan Trabin (Director of Operations)
Samantha Witman (Unity Program Co-Educator)

Click here to see detailed descriptions of our amazing team of educators.


Board of Directors and Honorary Advisory Board
Abraham's Vision is guided and supported by some of the most respected scholars and religious leaders of our day, individuals steeped in conflict transformation and inter-group relations. Click here to see a list of the prestigious members of our Board of Directors or Honorary Advisory Board.

Equal Partnerships: We are committed to equal partnerships across ethnic, religious, and gender lines. This commitment is reflected in our organizational structure as well as our long-term programs, workshops, and presentations.

Experiential Learning: We are committed to creative forms of education that both recognize the importance of content-based teaching and value individual and group participant experiences.

Encounters: We approach inter-group encounters as a reflection of the political realities in which we live, utilizing them as a central element of our educational approach.

Political Education: We focus on individual and collective relationships within current political realities, placing the relationship between individuals and groups at the center of the educational experience rather than analyzing political developments as something separate from students.

Click here to learn more about our unique educational approach.

Our individual staffers are so experienced that – together – we have worked at virtually every major conflict resolution and transformation program that exists which works on issues related to the Jewish, Muslim, Israeli, and/or Palestinian communities.





 
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