Jerusalem Peacebuilders

Summer peace institutes: summer peace institutes bring together american, israeli, and palestinian students and young adults with the focus of creating a new generation of Peacebuilders and leaders. The program challenges participants to consider different perspectives around the israeli-palestinian conflict. In addition, it encourages participants to deepen their understanding of faith traditions and develop strategies for taking action in promoting peace.

Charitable contributions and west bank women's leadership program to help women living in the west bank with professional resources, growth, and career development.

Excel institute: excel institute inspired by the internationally famous conflict transformation across cultures program (contact), jpb hosted the inaugural excel: exploring conflict, education, and leadership institute for adults at acer farm in brattleboro, Vermont. Excel was offered in the uk as a nine-day professional development program for israeli jewish and arab educators, combining peacebuilding, critical reflection, networking, curriculum design, and language studies to empower participants with an array of professional skills, relationships and recognition. Excel's peacebuilding component aims to increase educators' capacities to integrate the practices of peacebuilding and youth leadership in their classrooms and curricula. The program engages educators through experiential and hands-on andragogy suitable to adaptation for high school classrooms. While learning skills, participants will build group relations to foster understanding, empathy and community.

Jerusalem schools initiative: jpb conducts a unique leadership and peace studies course for high school students in israel, the west bank, and the us utilizing both traditional and experiential learning techniques to explore topics around leadership, peace building, conflict transformation, and social justice.

Pilgramage program: jpb offers yearly educational travel and pilgrimage opportunities to the holy lands and jordan for a variety of adult groups and faith communities. Our traditional holy lands trip includes visits to Jerusalem, nazareth, sea of galilee, bethlehem, jericho, dead sea and the judean desert. We also offer a trip to jordan and Jerusalem that includes some of the above locations as well as visits to petra, madaba, jerash, amman, and more. Each pilgrimage includes opportunities to meet with promising jpb alumni and hear their stories of hope for the future peace of Jerusalem.

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