This program works for the information, education and mobilization of Palestinian youth and works with them for launching different campaigns and initiatives, using different tools, and executing different activities to raise awareness and become advocates for Just Peace.
As part of the its ongoing Just Peace project, the JAI has organized a 3-day intensive training, from the 18th to the 20th of August 2014, in Beit Sahour, with 20 youth, more than half of which are girls, from various areas in the West Bank including Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron.
The training was in international law, international humanitarian law, with a main focus on the attack on Gaza, how we could use the UN and other international resolutions and agreements and bodies, including the Rome Statute, to hold Israel accountable, including the International Criminal Court.
On the last session of the training, the youth were trained and prepared with advocacy tools and mechanism to organize and implement advocacy initiatives on the local and international levels, based on the training they had, in cooperation with the JAI.