CfA: Summer Experiential Learning Program for Palestinian, Jewish, and Israeli Students

The Vision Program is currently considering applications from Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli college students (irrespective of citizenship) for a 4-week experiential learning trip to the former Yugoslavia. The program is partially funded but opportunities for full funding are available. Traveling together in Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, students will engage in an intensive comparative conflict analysis program that educates them about the Balkan wars of the 1990s, explores analytical connections with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and allows students to reflect on their own relationship to both conflicts as well as to one another.

Program Dates: June 27 - July 22, 2007
Application Deadline: January 15, 2006

This program is unique in several ways:
(1) It represents a commitment to equal participation of Jewish and Palestinian staff and students.

(2) It combines both academic and personal engagement with conflict-related issues such as nationalism, violence/nonviolenc e, and power dynamics.

(3) If admitted, no student will be denied participation based on financial limitations.

We are accepting applications from students who identify as Palestinian and/or Jewish and are currently attending a four year college/university in any of the following cities: Ann Arbor (MI), Boston, East Lansing (MI), Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The 2007 Vision Program application has been available online since November 1 and will be due January 15, 2007. Learn more about the 2007 Summer Program , read about the details of our previous 2006 Summer Program , and see pictures and read reflections from our 2006 program participants.

Please refer to our website for general organizational questions:
www.abrahamsvision. org .

For questions or more information, please contact one of the Vision Program Co-Directors Ziad Abu-Rish (ziad@abrahamsvision .org ) and Orli Fridman (orli@abrahamsvision .org).

To See a Copy of the Vision Program Brochure

CLICK HERE
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