David R.* is 33 years old and grew up in the fourth generation in a Kibbutz near Haifa. He describes his family’s political stance as humanist-liberal-left and went to demonstrations with his parents as a child. Peace and equality...
Yitzchak M. wrote this text two weeks after the Allgenders-seminar and published it on Facebook. He explicitly asked us to publish the it under his real name. Exactly one month ago today, I flew off to Cologne in Germany...
In the “Open Space”, participants of the dialogue seminars themselves have the chance to organize workshops on topics that are important to them. Ahlam D. * and Noah A. *, a Palestinian and an Israeli participant, jointly organized a...
Attempts to invite participants from the Gaza Strip to the seminars have regularly failed in the history of the project: People were not given a travel permit or were too afraid of repression. In 2019, for the first time...
Uros Antic took part in the Peace Camp in Split 2018 and is involved in our partner organization in Vukovar and at YU-Peace. Outraged by the nationalist propaganda on the occasion of the annual commemoration day for Croatian fighters...
(Text: Valentina G.) In Srebrenica, and in all of the Bosnia and Herzegovina the emergency state has been lifted and people are more relaxed than it was the case during the last two months. We still do not have...
(Text: Valerija F.) The state of emergency has been lifted, and of all the restrictions, the government left only the recommendation to wear face masks in closed spaces, kindergartens and schools, but not a lot of people respects those...
Since I rushed back to Israel from a stay abroad, things were starting to look darker and darker. The current government is more corrupt than ever and they seem to be taking advantage of the crisis to destroy the...
The Covid-19 pandemic is also forcing Vacation from War to change its plans for this year. In the past few weeks it has become clear that we have to go different ways in 2020: both the dialogue seminars for...
When the coronavirus came to Serbia, our already difficult situation became much worse. The disease was spreading, and our country didn’t have enough tests and didn’t order any special precautions. This is when the virus came to Serbian hospitals...