Transforming the Present, Shaping the Future
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Sunday, 07 September 2008
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“It has really made me think about myself, my life, my future, and what I want to do to help in the fight for human rights.”
- Palestinian student
“As challenging as this was, I was forced to look at issues within myself and the greater conflict that I would have never dealt with in another setting... these are the very issues that needed to be dealt with.”
- Jewish student
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COURSE SUMMARY
The Vision Program is a one-year fellowship for Jewish American, Palestinian American, Israeli, and Palestinian university students. Fellows explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict academically utilizing comparative conflict and social justice analysis and personally through individual and group processes.
Using the Balkan wars of the 1990s as a starting point, students embark on a four-week summer educational trip (from June through July) in Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Montenegro (view map of summer program). In the immediately following academic year, fellows engage in two weekend retreats, aimed to process their return to their lives and campuses after the summer, and organize and participate in campus and community presentations, which help participants to articulate their own voices as they relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict using a social justice lens.
The fellowship’s goal is to engage in a critical process of self and communal reflection as a tool for understanding how participants’ identities are practiced in their daily lives. Our program aims (a) to empower participants to heighten their self-awareness, paying particular attention to their political selves; (b) to develop their critical thinking; and (c) to examine how such thinking manifests itself in Jewish-Palestinian, Israeli-Palestinian, Jewish-Israeli, and intra Jewish-Israeli-Palestinian relations.
To learn more, click on the image to see a short film documenting our pilot 2006-07 Vision Program, which was filmed by Fellows from the program while traveling throughout the Balkans.
Applications for the 2008-09 Vision Program are now closed. Applications for 2009-10 will be available in the fall. For more information contact Huda Abu Arqoub (huda@abrahamsvision.org) or Eitan Trabin (eitan@abrahamsvision.org).
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