• So far over sixty-five thousand Jews and Palestinians participated in the workshops and courses conducted by the School for Peace over the past 38 years.
  • The intergroup dialogue method developed by the School for Peace for working with groups in conflict has become the leading method in the country and is applicable in conflicts around the world where the power relations are asymmetric.
  • Graduates of the School for Peace describe the courses as key moment in their life and that the conflict become a central issue in their personal and professional life.
  • The situation of the School for Peace in Wahat Al-Salam ~ Neve Shalom, the only village in the country where Jews and Arabs chose to live together in equality, allows the participants from both nations to feel at home and draw inspiration from the shared life model created in the village.
  • The combination of the political and the psychological, and the focus on the conflict and the asymmetric power relations, allow deep processes in the workshops conducted by the School for Peace.
  • Graduates of the facilitators course are leaders in the field and have become leaders in peace and human-rights organizations, as well as organizations for social change in Israel and Palestine.
  • The School for Peace was the first among peace organizations to create dialogue and cooperative work with academicians in universities and activists in the field. This is expressed in the academic courses conducted by the School for Peace in universities and colleges around the country. This cooperation is also expressed in joint seminars between the two, as well as research on the village and the School for Peace’s work in cooperation with researchers from the country and around the world.
  • The meetings conducted in Wahat Al-Salam ~ Neve Shalom have been attended by Palestinians from Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the years and during all political eras. The participants express content with the processes and the equal place their national group received next to the Jewish national group. We continue conducting meetings even “under fire” and declare that even in times of crisis, our effort to stop the war and bring peace will not cease.