Scheinin, Orel (2023) COME Dialogue Seminar: the Role of Dialogue in Conflict Resolution. Internship report thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
COME (Communication Middle East) Foundation is a private Dutch foundation that organizes a 10-day dialogue seminar annually for young Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis to allow them to meet and get to know each other. The organization of COME in its current form was set up in 1991. However, seminars have been organized since 1975. In these early days, a small organization was founded, which strove to bring together students of conflicting groups in the Middle East. In these ‘meeting seminars’, the participants came together in a different place, mainly in Cyprus, and got to know one another, each in their own identity. In these ‘meeting seminars’, hundreds of Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians, and Egyptians have had the opportunity to come closer together in a stable and safe environment. Later on, seminars were also held in Jerusalem. They were organized for theologians and those interested in theology. Europeans came to Jerusalem to study theology and meet the people of the land, both Israelis and Palestinians. Since 1991, these two initiatives have been joined, establishing the young COME Foundation. In 2009 the last ‘Jerusalem-seminar’ was held. Over the years, the target group for the ‘meeting-seminars’ became smaller, being now mainly a meeting place for Jewish-Israelis and Palestinians. These days, the main objective of the Foundation is to organize dialogue seminars on neutral ground in which Jewish-Israeli and Palestinian youth (both living in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories) can meet each other in the context of the conflict situation in the Middle East. By organizing these seminars, COME Foundation wants to express its engagement to all sides.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Internship report) |
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| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 11:54 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 11:54 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/247 |
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