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The gift will allow for the creation of three Leon Charney Scholarships each fall and spring semester, as well as expand the existing Diplomacy Program to create an Undergraduate Honors Program (UHP) delegation, and expand to create an FAU High School delegation. The UHP and FAU High students will be trained in their own class and will compete in nationals in Washington, D.C. each fall.
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On Friday March 17th, students from the Leon Charney Resolution Center at the EMIS International School joined world-renowned peace facilitator Dr. Sapir Handelman at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Working around forty tables set up in the square, Dr. Handelman helped guide passionate negotiators to come up with solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Several students from the Leon Charney Resolution Center at the EMIS International School also participated in the 1,000 strong negotiations – just a few weeks after Dr. Handelman led the students in their first ever peace talk simulation at the Charney Resolution Center on March 1st and 2nd. Dr. Handelman and Minds of Peace have successfully led 32 Israeli-Palestinian public
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On Friday, March 17, around 2000 Israelis & Palestinians from all walks of life came to Rabin Square to discuss, debate, and negotiate the conditions for an effective peace process. The negotiations were conducted around 40 tables plus a plenary one. This unique event was another significant step towards the establishment of a major Israeli-Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress with political influence.
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Every day, we experience challenges that require us to make compromises with ourselves and others. This is true of our personal lives, as well as our professional lives, just as it is true in politics, religion, and economics. On Sunday, 12 March 2017, Haifa University Professor Aaron Ben Ze’ev of the Philosophy Faculty gave the students of EMIS a comprehensive lecture on the subject of compromise in the areas of love and romance.
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I want to thank the Leon Charney Resolution Center for hosting the Peace Talks at EMIS. As a member of the first graduating class, I feel immensely proud of the work you have been doing. Thank you very much!
Read moreEMIS students succeed where no government has before, bringing Israelis and Palestinians to agree on terms for peace & a two-state solution.
They proved that through empathy and compromise, peace is possible! Sapir Handelman, Lentz Fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research at the University of Missouri-St. Louis helped the students, and Nathan Stock, Director of the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center.
Thank you to the students for their creativity, thoughtfulness, and engagement over two days of intense negotiations.
Dr. Nimrod Novik, who has served for over 2 decades as Chairman of the Board of the ECF (Economic Cooperation Foundation), promoting Middle East cross-border cooperation in the political, security, economic and civic spheres, and Saman Khoury, former member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, and co-founder of Peace Now both were there to help the students. At day 1 evening, a relaxation drum event!
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Early on Tuesday morning, January 31st, the Visual Arts students of EMIS woke up for a jam-packed day ahead. With the aim of establishing an understanding of the connection between art and conflict, we were determined to, for a day, open our ears and minds to the perspectives of local artists. So, after eating breakfast and packing a lunch, we were off, headed towards the hills of Jerusalem, to the leading arts and design school in Israel, Bezalel University.
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