The Vision Program is a ten month 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, participants embark on a four-week summer educational trip (from June through July) in Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina (view map of previous summer programs). In the immediately following academic year, fellows engage in two weekend conferences, 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.