Local capacity-building programs offer educators training that
enables them to better promote cross-cultural understanding,
civic engagement, critical thinking, and the peaceful
transformation of conflict through classrooms, schools, and
youth organizations. Model Schools Initiative The Model Schools
Initiative was designed as a three-year program to introduce
five key components of a peaceful learning environment—multiple
perspectives, effective communication, decision-making and
problem-solving, peaceful resolution of conflict, and civic
engagement—into both Israeli and Palestinian schools. “My team
and I faced many obstacles, but the workshops gave us ideas to
build on our plans …We were successful. The Prime Minister
honored our project, and it is in a book of examples for other
schools.” —Palestinian school principal, participant in the
Model Schools Initiative Peaceful Learning Environments Seeds of
Peace conducts workshops focused on creating peaceful learning
environments for Palestinian students in s