The scope of action for activists who are committed to dialogue and encounter in Israel and Palestine is becoming increasingly limited. On both sides, these people are being called „traitors“ and publicly defamed, increasingly also by the state. Rana*(name...

Without the commitment and efforts of our partners, a project like Vacation from War would not be possible. Since many years, we work with the following partner organizations in the three countries of the Former Yugoslavia: the association Prijateljice...

Why are we doing a women*-only seminar and why do we see the importance of looking at cross border dialogues and conflict transformation also from a feminist lens? This topic we have been recently discussing in three publicwebinars with...

In this video, Lydia shares her experience of the israeli-palestinian Dialogue Seminar 2017. „In that seminar in Germany we actually lived together, we were eating in the same dining room every day, we were discussing the...

Vacation From War has many regular supporters who read our publications and make our project possible through donations and creative initiatives! Our project thrives on people making us known, accompanying us and supporting us! Become our St. Nicolas and...

Vacation From War invites young adults from Israel and the Palestinian West Bank to Germany for two-week dialogue seminars every summer. There, they not only live under one roof, but work in dialogue groups on the history of conflict...

Many participants of the dialogue seminars for young adults from Israel and Palestine share afterwards how they have changed their thinking about the “others”, their perspective about occupation and the conflict in a lasting way. For many of them,...

“When I got back home (from the sea camp) I missed my friends a lot. But they give me the courage to stand up to talk to my dad about what happened. And we came to an agreement that...

„Why I came to the seminar has a lot to do with my military experience. In recent years, I have been increasingly looking for ways to get involved in relations between Israelis and Palestinians. (…) When the Palestinians here...

What is the project „Vacation from War“ doing? What is it about? What does dialogue mean to us? The project „Vacation from War“ enables dialogues between young people from war and crisis zones and thus aims to establish an...