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Center for Transformative Education
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The Center for Transformative Education is a new educational initiative that offers empowering educational programs to help transform societies into their potential. Utilizing the expertise that Abraham's Vision has gained in the fields of experiential education and conflict transformation since their establishment in 2003, our programs' goals are to educate students about social relations between communities, including issues such as social inequalities and power relations, and to empower students to mobilize their communities to practice just alternatives to the status quo. In the next few years we are focusing on two training programs that prepare students to work with groups in conflict: a facilitation training course (January) and a comparative conflict analysis and transformation course (June and July of 2010). CTE’s educational models are rooted in western and local-cultural methodologies of working with groups in conflict, thereby creating a groundbreaking organic model of facilitation that can be used in any conflict setting. |
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Latest News at CTE
2010 Beyond Bridges: Israel-Palestine (BB:IP) (June 29 - July 22)
On Thursday, July 22, our newest CTE program, Beyond Bridges: Israel-Palestine (BB:IP), came to a close. Based in Jerusalem, our students and staff traveled for nearly a month all over Israel-Palestine, meeting with scholars and grassroots organizers alike. From Yad Vashem to Mahmoud Darwish’s grave, from meetings with Jewish Israeli settlers to Muslim Palestinian refugees, from movies on "The Forgotten Refugees" (Arab and Middle Eastern Jewish refugees who re-located to Israel) to discussions with former soldiers and militants now affiliated with Combatants for Peace, this is the only program of its kind that integrates the dominant narratives of both Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. |
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