Where Students Learn:
In the Classroom…
Students receive interactive instruction through discussions and activities with college professors, religious
leaders, high school teachers, professional peace negotiators, political leaders, and community leaders.
Classroom work is supplemented with book lists, films, computer learning, and more.
In the Local Community…
Students attend plays, hear speakers, participate in art projects, go to movies, and eat meals together.
In Colorado’s Rocky Mountains…
Students attend a weekend retreat in the Colorado Rockies where they become immersed in listening and
dialogue training; in leadership development; and where guest speakers give personal accounts of
overcoming conflict in the Middle East.
In the Middle East…
Students are offered the opportunity to make a trip to Israel and the West Bank near the end of the course.
This trip provides several life-expanding opportunities:
- To meet Israeli and Palestinian teenagers interested in interfaith, intercultural dialogue
- To immerse themselves in new cultures
- To practice newly learned listening and dialogue skills
- To visit the Holy Sites of the three Abrahamic religions
- To better understand the roots of conflict, and to learn first hand what others are doing to solve it
- To model interfaith and intercultural friendship
- To strengthen their own bonds of friendship
- To enlarge the network of peacemakers