Peace Education Portfolio 2026
Why Invest Now in Peace Education?
For decades, peace education has been pushed to the margins of Israel’s formal education system. In some contexts, engagement with themes such as conflict resolution, dialogue, and reconciliation has been reduced or banned altogether. Every year without sustained peace education further weakens the civic foundation on which any future political agreement would depend.
The reality is clear: without peace education, there will be no peace. Peace cannot rely solely on diplomatic agreements or political leadership. It requires a deep civic and cultural foundation: language, knowledge, tools, shared narratives, and public readiness to support a complex and demanding process over time.
Investing in peace education means rebuilding long-term civic infrastructure. Its impact is not immediate, but cumulative. It shapes leadership, civic literacy, and cultural resilience across generations.
Why Invest Through Shalom Aleinu?
The portfolio was curated by our Investment Committee through a rigorous selection process that included an open call for proposals, interviews with applicants, in-depth analysis of dozens of initiatives, and structured consultations with our research partners.
The selected initiatives reflect proven experience, educational innovation, operational capacity, and potential for impact at scale.
No single initiative can generate the cultural shift required on its own. Civic transformation requires multiple approaches, diverse audiences, varied age groups, and parallel educational channels operating simultaneously. Each initiative contributes a distinct and essential component to rebuilding a civic culture capable of sustaining peace.
Your investment is allocated across the full portfolio. Structured diversification generates cumulative, long-term impact while reducing risk and strengthening public return.

Pro-Human Camp and Moadim LeShalom
Lessons from Resolved Conflicts

“Lessons from Resolved Conflicts” is a joint initiative of the Pro-Human Camp and Moadim LeShalom, focused on developing an innovative, research-informed curriculum and teaching model for peace education.
The curriculum examines patterns in conflicts around the world that have undergone transformative processes. It uses distancing and comparative learning to allow for a broader and more nuanced understanding of their dynamics.
Through the development of pedagogical resources and professional support for educators, the initiative seeks to generate educational impact, challenge fixed attitudes, expand political and civic imagination, and question prevailing perceptions of conflicts and the possibility of their resolution.

MABAT
Shared Life Initiative at the University of Haifa

The Shared Life Initiative at the University of Haifa offers a comprehensive program to deepen dialogue and embed shared society values on campus. Focused on the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, the program runs throughout the academic year. In the first semester, eight joint Jewish-Arab student groups engage in learning and campus-wide outreach, producing policy papers for a campus Shared Life Charter. In the second semester, selected representatives synthesize these papers into an institutional plan to integrate shared society principles into university life. The initiative concludes with a large public event presenting the Charter and promoting peace-oriented discourse.

A Land for All - Two States One Homeland
Leaders of the Next Generation

Amid deep social and political shifts within Israeli society, new openings are emerging for a shared Israel-Palestine future grounded in partnership and equality.
This program equips 15–20 young Israeli women and men, religious and secular, to become part of A Land for All's leadership, growing them into courageous voices for equality, shared belonging, and mutual responsibility.
Through collaborative future-building sessions and professional public-speaking training, participants gain skills and confidence to lead.
They integrate into ALFA’s public work as one intergenerational civic force, lead events reaching 2,000 people and media channels engaging 100,000 and turn inherited despair into living hope.

Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace and Forum 1325 for a Political Agreement
Women Transforming Reality: A Gender-Responsive Approach to Action and Policy Design for Peace

The project is a collaboration between the Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace and Forum 1325 for a Political Agreement. It aims to create a core group of professional and influential women leaders in Israeli society by deepening knowledge, developing leadership, and promoting social and policy change through gender- and diversity-informed approaches grounded in democracy and peace. The project emphasizes bottom-up leadership, enabling participants to build influence and drive change starting within their communities and extending to broader society. It includes training programs, working groups to develop practical solutions, mentorship of initiatives in the field, and the publication of policy briefs with actionable recommendations for gender-responsive and inclusive conflict resolution. Participants gain tools to design and implement gender-responsive policy and develop operational work plans in Israeli society and in the Israeli-Palestinian context, translating theory into practical, impactful action.

The Abraham Initiatives
Education for a Shared Society in a Crisis Reality

The Abraham Initiatives' education program will embed shared society and democratic education in Israel's education system, responding to polarization and hatred intensified after 7/10/23. The project focuses on training Arab and Jewish educational leadership - principals, supervisors and teachers - as change agents, and will provide them with practical tools for processing complex emotions, managing controversial discussions and addressing extremist statements in classrooms and staff rooms.

Achvat Amim
Peace Education for Russian Speaking Israelis

Over two million Israelis speak Russian as their mother tongue, but few peacebuilding projects engage this population seriously. This project launches a Russian-language solidarity education track through a partnership between Achvat Amim, an educational movement building platform, and the grassroots initiative Meeting Point, which brings political topics to the Russian speaking population. The pilot program will engage 15 core Russian speaking participants who engage in a weekly meeting that combines political education, field visits, and community-building. They will also do one weekend cross-border in the West Bank where they will engage in solidarity work and create connections to continue the work after the program’s completion. By developing a Russian-language curriculum combined with trained facilitators, the initiative expands access to human-rights education in Israel and Palestine and strengthens long-term, cross-cultural solidarity networks in Israeli society.