Benita Hide, the director of British Friends of Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salam was interviewed live on air on BBC Shropshire on the 15th of February 2009 by Mike George on BBC Sunday Breakfast. Mike was curious about the fact that there was a place, where hate was not the norm and asked Benita about her personal feelings regarding the village. She explained that it was a tranquil place that made her feel at home. Asked what the secret of the village of peace was, she responded by stating it was simply to keep the dialogue open. It made great and encouraging listening to anyone on that Sunday morning. Benita Hide was in Shropshire as a guest to an interfaith conference organized by the Diocese of Hereford the day before, where she was scheduled as a reporter from a place of hope.
17 Feb 2009
Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salam introduced to Shropshire
Benita Hide, the director of British Friends of Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salam was interviewed live on air on BBC Shropshire on the 15th of February 2009 by Mike George on BBC Sunday Breakfast. Mike was curious about the fact that there was a place, where hate was not the norm and asked Benita about her personal feelings regarding the village. She explained that it was a tranquil place that made her feel at home. Asked what the secret of the village of peace was, she responded by stating it was simply to keep the dialogue open. It made great and encouraging listening to anyone on that Sunday morning. Benita Hide was in Shropshire as a guest to an interfaith conference organized by the Diocese of Hereford the day before, where she was scheduled as a reporter from a place of hope.
16 Feb 2009
CPD for Teachers
February 2009
For immediate Release:
Teachers and Schools offered Dealing with Conflict Programme
We are looking for schools and teachers to work with!
Our teaching pack is suited for Citizenship Education, Community Cohesion, RE, History, English
and Geography.
We offer a number of options of training
a.) two-three hour seminar for teachers on location (e.g. 16.00-18.00) explaining how to use the pack creatively.
b.) a training day for individual teachers on the 9th of March 2009 in central London 9.30-17.00 (with teachers from other schools)
c.) direct work with your young children with our trainer
d.) bespoke special training (for example a series of two shorter workshops)
Details: Our teaching resource is ideal to help students to learn and think about conflict.
The pack has been especially designed for the use in Citizenship Education, RE, History, Geography, and English. Dealing with Conflict is tied in with all learning outcome requirements of key stage
3, 4 and 5.
It suits extremely well all learning areas of community cohesion, inter-faith, and inter-cultural education, as well as intra-religious, and intra-cultural work.
The pack has been recommended amongst others by DEA for global education, in RE Today, the Citizenship Foundation and recently the Association of Citizenship Education.
The entire resource is built upon the work of one of the most famous conflict resolution centres between Arabs and Jews, the School for Peace (SfP), itself based in a one of a kind peace village that runs by the Hebrew / Arabic double name Wahat-al Salam~Neve Shalom which means Oasis of Peace. For nearly 40 years Jews and Arabs have chosen to live together there, and the SfP has been running encounter workshops for young people across the divide for nearly 30 years. Very unique ways of working with people have evolved there. Detailed information on this can be found in Halabi (2004): Israeli and Palestinian identities in Dialogue. Further the village houses a pioneering modern kindergarten and primary school that teaches children bilingually and with respect to accommodating jointly Jewish Israeli and Palestinian cultural needs. Their methods were later adopted by several other schools in the region.
The details about this special place and the infamous conflict between Jews and Arabs itself, which through the teaching resource can be widely illustrated from most subject perspectives (e.g. in English through adding a literature list), are enriched by detailed teachers guidance points, that include nearly 50 suggested games and activities, some abstract, others specific, and all intended to actually discuss issues that affect young people in the schools and classes where the resource is being used, here in London. Work with it can be selective or the entire pack can be taught as a core module.
Some extracts can be viewed on our website www.oasisofoeaceuk.org (select education).
From the beginning in 1999 (this is the second updated 2006 edition) we wanted our resource to be accompanied by training that allows teachers to pick up on basic mediation skills, creative thinking around the subject, and back-ground details. All workshops are led by Susan Denton Brown, a former Head of Religious Education, who is also a trained conflict facilitator for Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al-Salam, and nonviolence trainer for the Gandhi Foundation.
If you think this could be of interest I'd be happy to discuss your favourite option from above with you (seminar on location, training with other teachers, etc...).
Below you will find a list of links that tell you more about Wahat al Salam ~ Neve Shalom, the education resource and the School for Peace.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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For immediate Release:
Teachers and Schools offered Dealing with Conflict Programme
We are looking for schools and teachers to work with!
Our teaching pack is suited for Citizenship Education, Community Cohesion, RE, History, English
and Geography.
We offer a number of options of training
a.) two-three hour seminar for teachers on location (e.g. 16.00-18.00) explaining how to use the pack creatively.
b.) a training day for individual teachers on the 9th of March 2009 in central London 9.30-17.00 (with teachers from other schools)
c.) direct work with your young children with our trainer
d.) bespoke special training (for example a series of two shorter workshops)
Details: Our teaching resource is ideal to help students to learn and think about conflict.
The pack has been especially designed for the use in Citizenship Education, RE, History, Geography, and English. Dealing with Conflict is tied in with all learning outcome requirements of key stage
3, 4 and 5.
It suits extremely well all learning areas of community cohesion, inter-faith, and inter-cultural education, as well as intra-religious, and intra-cultural work.
The pack has been recommended amongst others by DEA for global education, in RE Today, the Citizenship Foundation and recently the Association of Citizenship Education.
The entire resource is built upon the work of one of the most famous conflict resolution centres between Arabs and Jews, the School for Peace (SfP), itself based in a one of a kind peace village that runs by the Hebrew / Arabic double name Wahat-al Salam~Neve Shalom which means Oasis of Peace. For nearly 40 years Jews and Arabs have chosen to live together there, and the SfP has been running encounter workshops for young people across the divide for nearly 30 years. Very unique ways of working with people have evolved there. Detailed information on this can be found in Halabi (2004): Israeli and Palestinian identities in Dialogue. Further the village houses a pioneering modern kindergarten and primary school that teaches children bilingually and with respect to accommodating jointly Jewish Israeli and Palestinian cultural needs. Their methods were later adopted by several other schools in the region.
The details about this special place and the infamous conflict between Jews and Arabs itself, which through the teaching resource can be widely illustrated from most subject perspectives (e.g. in English through adding a literature list), are enriched by detailed teachers guidance points, that include nearly 50 suggested games and activities, some abstract, others specific, and all intended to actually discuss issues that affect young people in the schools and classes where the resource is being used, here in London. Work with it can be selective or the entire pack can be taught as a core module.
Some extracts can be viewed on our website www.oasisofoeaceuk.org (select education).
From the beginning in 1999 (this is the second updated 2006 edition) we wanted our resource to be accompanied by training that allows teachers to pick up on basic mediation skills, creative thinking around the subject, and back-ground details. All workshops are led by Susan Denton Brown, a former Head of Religious Education, who is also a trained conflict facilitator for Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al-Salam, and nonviolence trainer for the Gandhi Foundation.
If you think this could be of interest I'd be happy to discuss your favourite option from above with you (seminar on location, training with other teachers, etc...).
Below you will find a list of links that tell you more about Wahat al Salam ~ Neve Shalom, the education resource and the School for Peace.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
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- Who is Neve Shalom ~ Wahat al Salam? Wahat-Al Salam ~ Neve Shalom
- 10 Minute Video about Wahat al-Salam ~ Neve Shalom
- Binational / Bilingual Primary School of Wahat al Salam 1.)First Lessons In Peace
2.) Inspirations of Peace - TES Review 2008 Peace Teachings on Gaza
- RE Today Summer 2008, p. 60
- TES Review 2000 Dealing with Conflict
- What is the School for Peace? School for Peace
- Who are British Friends of Wahat al Salam ~ Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace) Oasis of peace
- General Press: Church Times, Radio Four Midweek (select 21st of May) , BBC World Wide TV (27th May) , BBC World Service (20th May and June 08 Persian Service), Radio Netherland, Daily Telegraph
- Susan Denton Brown Article (opens pdf) and Daniel Zylbersztajn
Dealing with Conflict Information on our website:
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