Main Projects / Activities

ALWATAN Center seeks to empower the community to address the growing local and global challenges, through mobilizing the strengths and resources of the community and create real opportunities for the future.

ALWATAN FOR PEACE
In collaboration with Nonviolence International in Washington, DC and other organizations, ALWATAN works for Peace and aims at disseminating the philosophy of non-violence in the region. The center also helps to develop ways of civil resisting the occupation without resorting to violence. Bearing in mind the recent pattern of escalating violence, there should be a ceaseless effort on the part of all to work for a genuine peace

ALWATAN FOR JUSTICE

Believing in justice as a basis for peace, the center has drawn attention to the facts and specifics of infringements against justice. Many activities related to nonviolence have been organized to tackle the issues of human rights violations. In this context, the center has built unique relations with local and international movements or organizations that advocate the ideas of peace and nonviolence. This work began long before the Oslo accords, believing in the fact that communication is the basis for all human understanding. It is also the best way to remove the barriers of fear and mistrust among the parties in order to insure a future built on justice

PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES

ALWATAN Center organizes the following programs: civic education, nonviolence, communications, Conflict Resolution, active listening, the art of negotiating, peace and training in leadership skills.
- The center works at the grassroots level on the principles of nonviolence for social change.
- The center cooperates in particular with the youth in conducting frequent meetings among the various Palestinian and international youth groups.
- The center organizes summer peace camps, group dialogues and civic education courses.
- The center is mainly concerned with society’s young people and the issues of women. This includes the club for Reading in English and the Portable library.
- The center has a documentation department, conducts field studies and research and publishes books pertaining to Palestine.
- The center has projects dealing with youth illiteracy and also encourages reading.

VOLUNTEERS
All Palestinian and foreigner volunteers from every corner of the earth are welcome to come and visit the center, which highly values the shared experiences that can be gained. Volunteers are welcome to work full-time or part-time.