D.N. Shimshon 99761
Neve Shalom / Wahat al Salam
Israel
- Democracy and community development
- International/Cultural relations
- Media
- Research
- Youth and education
Centre for political education with the goal of creating a more humane, equal, just society. The SFP conducts intergroup dialogue between Palestinians and Jews about critical themes, such as power relations, racism or daily living conditions, enabling participants to develop critical thinking skills, better understand the reality in which they live and how to work towards changing it. The SFP conducts cross-border programs with Palestinian NGOs to enhance awareness of the need to resist occupation. Organisations based in areas of ethnic conflict and racial tension in Europe (e.g. Northern Irland, Cyprus, Kosovo) and the USA have turned to the SFP to learn about its methods.
The SFP is a central locus of training in the field of political education in Israel. It operates encounter workshops for dialogue between Arabs and Jews and training courses on facilitation. Many people who have attended SFP training courses are now leading figures in NGOs dealing with Jewish-Arab relations and social change. Some 40,000 Jews and Palestinians have attended SFP programs, which reach high school students, teachers, university students, journalists, lawyers, members of the educational, health and therapeutic professions and the general public. The work of the SFP is conducted in both uni-national and bi-national forums. The SFP also operates a research centre.