Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc

Excel Institute: Excel Institute inspired by the internationally famous conflict transformation across cultures program (contact), JPB hosts excel: Exploring conflict, education, and leadership institute for adults at St Georges college in Cambridge, England. This is a nine-day professional development program for Israeli Jewish and Arab educators, combining peacebuilding, critical reflection, networking, curriculum design, and language studies to empower participants with an array of professional skills, relationships and recognition. Excel's peacebuilding component aims to increase educators' capacities to integrate the practices of peacebuilding and youth leadership in their classrooms and curricula. The program engages educators through experiential and hands-on andragogy suitable to adaptation for high school classrooms. While learning skills, participants will build group relations to foster understanding, empathy and community.