What is One World Week?
One World Week is a Development Education Charity*. Each year, "The Week" is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally. More
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OXFORD: A Talk entitled 'Lessons about the Palestine-Israeli conflict'
Lessons about the Palestine-Israeli Conflict
A talk by Prof Cobi Sonnenscheink
Date & Time: Wednesday 26th October 2016
at 5.30pm
Venue: Brasenose College
Radcliffe Square
Oxford
OX1 4AJ H
A talk by Prof Cobi Sonnenschein, on
"Lessons about Palestine-Israel Conflict:
Life in Neve Shalom / Wahat al - Salam."
Neve Shalom / Wahat al - Shalam
meaning "Oasis of Peace"in Hebrew and Arabic
is the only community where Jewish & Palestinian Israelis
have chosen to live together to promote peace & equality.
Cobi and his wife Nava are one of the original four young
couples who founded NSWaS in 1979.
Since then the community has grown to over 60 families,
with anothe 90 planned in the coming years.
Cobi is a member of the municipal council which plans the
future and development of the Village.
Nava is the founder and Director the School for Peace,
the outreach educational arm of the Village.
Cobi holds the
Wolfson Chair of Theoretical Physics at Tel Aviv University
and is currently conducting Research at Imperial College, London.
Admission Details: Free, BUT need to Register by email
Contact Name : Millius Palayiwa
Contact Email : millius.palayiwa@gmail.com
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Recently Added Resources
New Funding Opportunity - The Common Good Fund - Application Deadline 27 Feb. 2017 see more here
Organisers' Evaluation form for 2016 events Download from here
Wordsearches for Including You events - download them from here
Press release template for 'Including You' events download here
Quotations about building an inclusive peaceful society - Download from here a 5 page booklet as a word.doc or pdf
Pledges to build an inclusive society - find them here
"Who is a Migrant?" - anactivity/game to get people talking to each other at your events. Download the instructions here
School Assemblies from Christian Aid- link to and download a PowerPoint and notes
Looking for a speaker for your event? Download here a list (pdf) from the Discussion page (posted 12 Sept 2016)
Faith resources relating to "Including You".Download pdf here links to materials offered by OWW's partners and supporters: worship, discussion, films ...plus Prayers for OWW(updated 7 Sept '16)
Presentation "A OWW approach to Migration" Download this PDF version of a 12 slides (15 -20 minutes) powerpoint
Need funding for your event? Apply to Big Lottery Celebrate Fund! NOW or you'll be too late for OWW more here and other suggestions
Poster/ flyer design kit - download from here
2016 Leaflets "Including You" download PDF versions here
Introductory PowerPoint about organising local inclusive OWW events - updated for 2016. Down load ppt here
Migrant crisis or poverty crisis? - A briefing paper from Global Justice NOW Download as a PDF here
2016 - "Including You" - Booklet of ideas, links and resources for interpreting the theme. Dowload a PDF here (updated July 2016)
Learning resource/activity for young people about peace - from Fly Kites not Drones; suitable for activites in or out of school. find links here: schools ; activities (added Nov. 2015 but still relevant for this years events)
Organisers' Evaluation Form for event organisers to complete and send to OWW - down load the word.doc from here
Event participants feedback form (for organisers to collect feedback from participants at OWW events) (word.doc)
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