Ecological
Center for
Peace Project

Beresheet LaShalom
is disseminating in
various continents &
its educational
message becomes ever
more imperative.
We no
longer speak only of
peace but of
inter-culture, of
respect for one
another, ourselves
and the environment
that surrounds us,
of receptiveness to
diversity, of
research of local
knowledge and
know-how to explore
and to develop that
which unites
different cultures.
The
performances
of Beresheet
LaShalom
have become
an authentic
"Pedagogic
Poem".
The youths
that
participate
in our
projects, be
they actors
or
spectators,
experience
and absorb
the deeper
sense of the
values of
humankind:
justice,
participation,
sharing,
courage,
solidarity,
sensibility,
empathy and
a living
bond with
the world.
We have
begun a
research
project in
collaboration
with the
Department
of
Educational
Science of
Florence
University
[Italy]
under the
patronage of
UNESCO and,
after a
period of
stay in
Galilee, two
post-graduate
students of
the
International
Masters of
Development
have
presented a
thesis on
Peace
Education
based on the
educational
methodology
of the
Beresheet
LaShalom
Foundation.
Young people
from all
over the
world ask to
be able to
spend a
period of
time in the
ambit of our
group so as
to take part
in a project
that
develops
dialogue at
the human
and
environmental
level.
We are
working on a program
with young people of
different ethnic
backgrounds who will
dedicate themselves
for the period of a
year to this
vocation that
comprises:
activities of art
and sport as
vehicles of
education to
dialogue - direction
of a radio program
in Hebrew and Arabic
– help/assist the
women of the
villages in the area
to help them to
develop their own
potentialities -
courses of mediation
and negotiation -
potentiality of
human resources
through the
consolidation of
their own identities
and of their own
knowledge and
know-how -
development of a
leadership able to
collaborate, build
and create common
initiatives for the
protection of the
environment and all
cultures.
THE ECOLOGICAL
CENTER FOR PEACE
We need
a Center in which to
coordinate all these
activities, to
welcome students and
volunteers and all
those people who
desire to learn to
protect the values
of humankind and
nature through
innovative &
inspiring workshops
of life.
Our
vision is to create
a Center in Galilee
in harmony with the
environment; far
from atmospheric and
acoustic pollution,
a center that in its
planning will take
into consideration
the construction
materials, recycling
of water and refuse,
thermal isolation
and the use of
alternative and
solar energy, in
order to transmit
and teach that to
safeguard the world
in which we, and the
next generations
will live, we need
peace with
ourselves, with
those that surround
us and with the
world that welcomes
us.
In a
climate of deep
mutual respect and
attention toward the
environment, the
centre will give the
project participants
the possibility to
consolidate their
own individuality &
identity, security
of their own
faculties and the
meaning of
responsibility of
every individual
toward Humanity,
present and future.
This Center will be
another occasion to
divulge & diffuse
the message of
Beresheet LaShalom
and its activities.
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