July 2010 Delegation
July 24 - August 6, 2010
Co-Sponsored with AFSC-Great Lakes Region
Delegation Leaders: Jacob Pace and Miryam Rashid
This delegation will explore Palestinian and Israeli efforts to achieve peace and a resolution to their conflict based on justice. The delegation will also feature meetings with Palestinian and Israeli peacemakers – leaders of civil society groups, grassroots organizers, religious leaders and more.
Your participation as an eyewitness to the situation will enrich your understanding of the conflict and empower your work back in the United States.
As with all delegations, you will meet with ‘ordinary’ Israelis and Palestinians, and people and organizations working for peace and justice. Delegates will confront and analyze the US role in the conflict and wrestle with ways to translate your experience to others when you return home.
To learn more about the standard components of all delegations, click here.
To express interest in this delegation and get updates and more information (leaders, co-sponsors, etc) as it becomes available, send us an email so we'll be sure to add you to the July 2010 delegation mailing list. Send an email to office@ifpb.org.
DEADLINE TO APPLY: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until late May, 2010. Apply early to reserve and lock in lower airfares.
Download Application for the Delegation Here
Leaders
Jacob Pace is Communications and Grants Coordinator at IFPB, and staffs the San Francisco office. Jake joined the organization in 2007 after first traveling to the region with an IFPB delegation in 2003. He previously worked with Partners for Peace, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and the Resource Center for Nonviolence in Santa Cruz, California. He spent more than a year in Israel/Palestine between 2003 and 2005 working with the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem in Bethlehem and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip. His work experience has focused particularly on media advocacy and grassroots organizing. He co-led an IFPB delegation in August 2008.
Miryam Rashid is the Director of the Middle East Program at the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago. She completed an MA in Middle East Studies from the University of Chicago in 1998. Miryam lived in the occupied West Bank for five years. She was involved with Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations from 1998 to 2000. Her research and educational work at non-governmental organizations in Washington and Chicago has focused on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and US policy in the region. Miryam co-led two American Friends Service Committee-Interfaith Peace-Builders delegations to Palestine and Israel from 2006 to 2008.
Logistics
The cost of the delegation will be $2100. This includes 13 days of the delegation, hotel and home stay accommodations, breakfasts and dinners, local transportation, guides, speaker/event fees, basic tips and gratuities. Partial scholarships may be available for those with demonstrable need.
The cost does not include domestic and international airfare. Interfaith Peace-Builders works with a local travel agent in Jerusalem to secure the best group rates for the delegation to travel together on the same flight from Washington, DC to Israel/Palestine. Therefore, delegates do not need to book their own international airfare.
Delegates will be expected make arrangements to be in Washington DC by 2pm on July 24, 2010.
Photos from Past IFPB Delegations