Israeli Consul General visits Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy
The Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy received a distinguished visitor on Monday afternoon. The Consul General of the State of Israel for Southern Germany, Sandra Simovich, was a guest at the Academy. The reason for her visit: to get to know the work of the Peace Academy better and to explore opportunities for cooperation.
"It is a great honour for us and an enormous appreciation of our work that the Consul General is visiting us in the Southern Palatinate," emphasizes the Managing Director of the Peace Academy, Junior Professor Dr. Janpeter Schilling. Initial contact with Consul General Sandra Simovich was made at the celebratory event to mark the founding of the State of Israel last summer and through Givat Haviva, one of the oldest and most important educational and meeting places in Israel, with which the Peace Academy cooperates.
Cooperation with civil society actors such as the Peace Academy is important to her, emphasizes Consul General Sandra Simovich. She and Schilling see great potential for cooperation. "With our respective work, we are pursuing the common goal of a tolerant, pluralistic society," says the Consul General. Possible areas of cooperation include anti-Semitism, racism and civil courage. The discussion focused in particular on the peace concept of the "Shared Society". This approach aims to enable all social groups and individuals to participate equally and as fully as possible in a shared society. In 2018, the Peace Academy launched a five-year project with Givat Haviva and the University of Haifa to further develop the concept and make it transferable to other countries with internal social conflicts or discrimination against minorities. Schilling and the Consul General were already able to concretize initial ideas yesterday: For example, the Peace Academy can look forward to Sandra Simovich as a speaker at one of the next Landau Peace Lectures. The Consul General is keen to use her networks and the high profile of her office to support the work of the Peace Academy.
"We deal intensively with Israel, its society and the peace concepts of Givat Haviva at the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy," says Schilling. Germany and Israel have similar polarizing problems and societies that are currently splitting up rather than coming together. It is therefore very important to counter this trend through cooperation and joint projects.
Further information:
https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/sharedsociety/
Contact:
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Janpeter Schilling
E-Mail: schilling[at]uni-landau.de
Press Office Campus Landau
Kerstin Theilmann
Tel.: 06341 280-32219
E-Mail: ktheilmann[at]uni-koblenz-landau.de
Israeli Consul General visits Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy
The Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy received a distinguished visitor on Monday afternoon. The Consul General of the State of Israel for Southern Germany, Sandra Simovich, was a guest at the Academy. The reason for her visit: to get to know the work of the Peace Academy better and to explore opportunities for cooperation.
"It is a great honour for us and an enormous appreciation of our work that the Consul General is visiting us in the Southern Palatinate," emphasizes the Managing Director of the Peace Academy, Junior Professor Dr. Janpeter Schilling. Initial contact with Consul General Sandra Simovich was made at the celebratory event to mark the founding of the State of Israel last summer and through Givat Haviva, one of the oldest and most important educational and meeting places in Israel, with which the Peace Academy cooperates.
Cooperation with civil society actors such as the Peace Academy is important to her, emphasizes Consul General Sandra Simovich. She and Schilling see great potential for cooperation. "With our respective work, we are pursuing the common goal of a tolerant, pluralistic society," says the Consul General. Possible areas of cooperation include anti-Semitism, racism and civil courage. The discussion focused in particular on the peace concept of the "Shared Society". This approach aims to enable all social groups and individuals to participate equally and as fully as possible in a shared society. In 2018, the Peace Academy launched a five-year project with Givat Haviva and the University of Haifa to further develop the concept and make it transferable to other countries with internal social conflicts or discrimination against minorities. Schilling and the Consul General were already able to concretize initial ideas yesterday: For example, the Peace Academy can look forward to Sandra Simovich as a speaker at one of the next Landau Peace Lectures. The Consul General is keen to use her networks and the high profile of her office to support the work of the Peace Academy.
"We deal intensively with Israel, its society and the peace concepts of Givat Haviva at the Rhineland-Palatinate Peace Academy," says Schilling. Germany and Israel have similar polarizing problems and societies that are currently splitting up rather than coming together. It is therefore very important to counter this trend through cooperation and joint projects.
Further information:
https://wp.uni-koblenz.de/sharedsociety/
Contact:
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Janpeter Schilling
E-Mail: schilling[at]uni-landau.de
Press Office Campus Landau
Kerstin Theilmann
Tel.: 06341 280-32219
E-Mail: ktheilmann[at]uni-koblenz-landau.de