We would like to thank all the hundreds of donors that have been generously donating for our activities. Any donation, even the most modest, helps us to perform our daily work in creating trust building gathering and long term relationships.
Our dear friends
Your help and support of our daily work to promote relationships and trust and peace building is blessed.
We will be happy if you would like to support us. Most of our activity is being done by volunteers, doing a lot for this cause. Yet we need financial support in order to cover the multiple expanses including busses, food, media, etc. We thank you for your support and wish to see you in the coming activity.
The Sulha Peace Project, a grassroots organization, inspired by the
indigenous process of mediation (“Sulha”), aims to rebuild trust, restore dignity and move beyond the political agenda. Download a description page of Sulha
Sulha workshops
Leadership seminar
We offer a unique, emotional experience of transformative encounter used to facilitate inter- and intra-group processes in managing conflict using simple yet effective tools for communication, team building and group development. Our starting point is a pool of highly skilled Jewish and Arab grassroots peace leaders from diverse fields, such as music, academia, spirituality and education Read more
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March 17-21, 2010
The story of young Leaders who meet despite the walls of fear
Young leadership seminar : Jordan – Israel – Palestine It's raining in the desert! Forty four Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Arabs, Muslims, one Jordanian, and twoAmericans are gathered here in Mizpe Ramon, deep in the Negev/Naqab Desert forThe URI-Sulhita Leadership Seminar.
Despite the increasing tension in Jerusalem, closures in the
West Bank until just a few hours before the seminar, and thelast minute cancellation by some participants due to media reports of violence, we decided to go ahead with the program. After a very long journey, our busfull of courageous young leaders arrived here yesterday evening full of energyand ready to build meaningful relationships and explore our collective power totransform this conflict and build a brighter future for all. for more information click here
We invite you to contribute in any way in order to help this even to happen. The costs of the event, based on a voluntary work in a large scale, are 8000$. We will be happy if you choose to grant a single participant in the cost of 200$ or any other amount. We also need stills and video photographers that could help in the documentation and editing of a movie about the project. Click here to Donate to the Sulha Peace Project
Sulha Family Gathering at the Dead Sea On February 26 and 27, twenty Israelis and Palestinians were hosted by Ilana Me’alem of Eco-Spirit, at her temporary home by the Dead Sea. On the first day we were challenged by unusually stormy weather. We cooperated as one family and managed to stay dry throughout the entire day thanks to amazing teamwork (see pictures)
On the second day we were blessed with amazingly sunny weather which allowed us to enjoy our time together in the hot springs and in the sea. We prepared food together, sang, and concluded our two days with a deep, long sharing circle. *****************************
7 Sulhita Youth Met with 14 Youth from Italy An Italian group came to the Holy Land to explore the complexity of the situation here. The Sulhita youth facilitated some activities, shared their life stories, taught songs expressing the Sulha spirit, and answered the group’s questions.
Sulhita youth are trained to make presentations and facilitate discussions with school groups about the transformation that they have experienced. On March 5, they shared their message of hope with youth from Italy, telling them “it’s possible to meet, work and live together!" ****************************
Promotion of workshops in the spirit of Sulha We are pleased to inform you about the new possibility of groups and organizations to book workshops led by facilitators from the Sulha family.
The techniques and the ways that were developed and are applied both on the working teams and outside during the annual gatherings, youth leadership gatherings, the gatherings and the workshops we provide to the general public, institutes and groups. for further information please click here.
Some recent workshops: Marc Gopin and Ihab Balaha in a common workshop Spiritual and practical channels and promotion of peace and justice The workshop held about 30 participants that experienced a variety of activities and lectures touching the depth of the conflict and its roots within ourselves and ways to deal it. Marc guided, as well, a workshop for the wider circle of organizers of Sulha and encouraged mutual guarantee amongst the activists and awareness to the personal needs of each and every one of us. Marc Gopin, head of the world wide center for religions, diplomacy and conflict resolution. During the last 27 years has been active in promoting peace and spirituality. Lately has led many seminars and lectures in Syria. Gopin is a professor for the research and resolution of conflicts as well as a rabbi.
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About six Sulhita youth have met a group of sixteen participants from Savion area in a moving workshop in which they told their life stories, described how the Sulhita gathering influenced their life and held a fascinating debate. The youth were playing a song together, gave out peace seeds and played a movie about the exciting gathering in the desert (the Sulhita).
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Hanan and Elad have led an inspiring workshop in Jordan that included life stories, honest sharing and deep debate. The workshop created an atmosphere of confidence and sharing and enabled fifty representatives from hundreds of Middle Eastern countries organizations to open up and share their feelings and hopes
A life stories as an open communication channel evening took place in the education for peace seminar An enemy is a person of which life story you haven't yet heard
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Sulha representatives have participated in the Jericho conference 2010 and have led two short workshops for 120 representatives from Israeli and Palestinian peace organizations.
Representatives from the Sulha family participated in the Middle East Peace Jam in Wadie Rum in Jordan – a week of a deep encounter of 30 participants from 17 countries in the Middle East.
Sulhita youth leadership
The leadership group of Sulhita youth has been gathered about ten times during the months since the Sulhita gathering in which they were met and got connected. The group's aim is to unite its participants and to promote a variety of projects of Sulha and the youth's ventures. Currently the young leaders are planning a workshop to be held in a Sulha gathering in the Dead Sea. In addition they will actively participate in the coming youth seminar.
Dancing Capueira together in Tel-Aviv pomerand. __________________________________
Additional news Dr Debi Samuel Perez from Boston, that has performed the evaluation surveys of Sulha and Sulhita participants during the past few years, has presented exciting and encouraging results! She has recently received a grant that would allow her to continue analyzing the data collected in the last gatherings and perform the evaluation of the coming gatherings.
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We cross fingers to our friends from the families forum and wish for the coming back home of their sons healthy soon.
Full of appreciation we look at people that despite all the continuing sorrow, pain and frustration, continue the holy work of reconciliation and talk.
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In the last month one of Sulhita youth became the internet coordinator of the Sulha. This step expresses our wish to create circles of mutual help, support and growth from within this place.
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T-shirts with the three religions icon We check your response to our plan to produce T-shirts and cloths pins with the Peace of the icon. If you are interested to purchase the cloths pins or the T-shirts, please send us an e-mail and we will check the amount to be ordered. Please send the e-mail to: contact.sulha@gmail.com
About the logo – the icons of the three religions with the peace dove, of which connection creates the word Shalom (Peace) in Hebrew and in the background a wrapping line creating the word Salaam (Peace) in Arabic.
Sulha activities during the Gaza war During the violent winter weeks Muslims and Jews, Israelis and Palestinians
met together to transform their alientation and despair into social action by connecting, communicating and creating acts of goodwill. For more information
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Activities of Sulha members in response to the Acco riots
on the eve of Yom Kippur 2008
In October 2008 riots erupted in Acco, a place where Jews and Arabs have lived as neighbors for many years. The city was flooded with violence and angry accusations. In a rapid response to this situation, a group of ten friends from the Sulha and Sulhita youth travelled to Acco, erected a dialogue tent and invitedArab and Jewish residents of the city and other visitors from around the country to sit together and participate in listening circles and related activities. They were supported by our long-term partners from the Bereaved Families’ Forum
Sulhita youth peace project In "Sulhita", the youth experience men and women circles, multi-cultural workshops, interfaith prayers, cooking, dancing, playing, and making music together. The gatherings bring about new feelings and deep transformation in everyone. They open the heart and inspire new thoughts and questions. View Sulhita 2008 Video on YouTube
We would like to thank all the hundreds of donors that have been generously donating for our activities. Any donation, even the most modest, helps us to perform our daily work in creating trust building gathering and long term relationships.
Our dear friends
Your help and support of our daily work to promote relationships and trust and peace building is blessed.
We will be happy if you would like to support us. Most of our activity is being done by volunteers, doing a lot for this cause. Yet we need financial support in order to cover the multiple expanses including busses, food, media, etc. We thank you for your support and wish to see you in the coming activity.
We are proud to have been representing Sulha Peace Project,as trainers( lee ziv and gabriel meyer) in a very transformative and powerful week at a youth peace camp in Europa Park sponsored by the Council of Europe in its sixth year. more....
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