JERUSALEM | Over 40 students from around the world, including 20 Palestinian and Israeli Seeds, participated in the a two-day peer mediation and facilitation training at the Eastern Mediterranean International School (EMIS) in Tel Aviv from April 15-16.
The seminar provided basic facilitation skills to help students and faculty cultivate an honest and productive space for student-to-student engagement during escalations of violence and conflict.
“The skills I gained were already inside of me–I learned about them at Camp,” said one Palestinian Seed. “But this program definitely upgraded and harnessed those skills and I am really glad we had this training.”
“I learned to look between the lines and step back during a dialogue to see what is really going on and then to step forward and tackle the core of the problem,” said an EMIS student from Morocco.