Human Rights and Dispute Resolution Project: United against violence and hatred in Palestinian Universities

Human Rights and Dispute Resolution Project: United against violence and hatred in Palestinian Universities
01 November 2022

The project aims to achieve human rights and resolve conflicts on campuses by promoting awareness, capacity-building and providing effective means of mediation, dialogue and negotiation. Includes training, seminars, workshops and the preparation of a draft honour charter, as well as an information campaign and closing conference. Aims to protect students' rights and promote civil peace, education and political participation.

Project Description

The project aims to achieve human rights and resolve conflicts on campuses by promoting awareness, capacity-building and providing effective means of mediation, dialogue and negotiation. Includes training, seminars, workshops and the preparation of a draft honour charter, as well as an information campaign and closing conference. Aims to protect students' rights and promote civil peace, education and political participation.

Project Goals
  1. Contribute to human rights defenders' efforts and conflict resolution by developing a young generation that shares the same values and objectives.
  2. Contribution to the defence of relevant human rights and promotion of the right to education, political participation and the right to safety and physical security of students on campus
  3. Raising awareness and building the capacities of the university's various bodies (students and their representatives from student blocs, student councils, student clubs, student affairs colleges and departments) on ways of solving conflicts in the official alternative; Especially mediation, negotiation and dialogue, and teaching them about resorting to these effective means of conflict resolution.
Sponsors
  1. Representative Office of Switzerland Ramallah
Targeted Areas

 Birzeit University - Birzeit, and Jerusalem University - Jerusalem