There is a new exchange program between the Universities of Koblenz-Landau and Haifa in Israel: from the winter semester 2020/21, Landau students of social sciences and psychology can study peace and conflict research in the northern Israeli port city for a semester. Students from Haifa can complete an exchange semester in the Southern Palatinate.

The new exchange program was initiated by the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate with the support of Department 13: International Cooperation. The cooperation between the two universities will begin in spring with an exchange of lecturers. Landau academics will teach in Haifa and students in the Southern Palatinate will learn from lecturers from Israel. The new Erasmus+ program is the result of several years of cooperation between the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, the University of Haifa and the Israeli educational and meeting center Givat Haviva. As part of this cooperation, the institutions and other international partners have initiated a comprehensive and sustainable five-year program on knowledge and action skills in so-called Shared Societies. These are societies that aim to enable all social groups to participate as equally and comprehensively as possible.

"Israel is a particularly suitable place to study peace research because it offers young people special impressions," emphasizes Dr. Charlotte Dany, Managing Director of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to the professional expertise of the University of Haifa and the exemplary initiatives for successful peace work in Israel, such as the Shared Society approach of Givat Haviva, the experience and observation in everyday life, through which students are sensitized to majority-minority conflicts or discrimination, for example, speaks for Israel as a place of study. "The exchange promotes intercultural and interreligious understanding as a basis for living together in a diverse society," says Dany.

Peace research is a topic for the future
Peace research and peace education are important and a topic for the future due to numerous conflict situations such as increasing anti-Semitism or social division and polarization. At the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, a broad cooperation between university institutions and projects is exploring highly relevant social issues, including how such conflicts can be dealt with constructively and how social cohesion can be successfully achieved. In addition to the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, the Human Rights Education project of Department 6: Cultural and Social Sciences, the rhetoric focus of the Competence Center for Studies and Careers (KSB) and the Klaus Töpfer Junior Professorship for Land Use Conflicts with the topics of peace, conflict and human rights contribute to the university's special profile along its guiding principle of "Education-Human-Environment". "The exchange with the University of Haifa also brings peace science and peace education expertise to the Palatinate, which was developed in the context of a complex conflict," emphasizes Dany.

Many institutions at the University of Landau are involved in the exchange with Israel - an example of successful internal cooperation for Associate Professor Dr. Francesca Vidal, Head of the Rhetoric Department. In addition to the Peace Academy and the focus on rhetoric, these include the Institute for Education in Childhood and Adolescence, which organizes annual study trips to Israel for students, and the Frank Loeb Institute, which organizes lecture and discussion series. The German Friends of Givat Haviva work together with the Rhetoric focus, the Certificate in Human Rights Education and the Peace Academy.

Further information on the exchange program can be found on the website of the Peace Academy:
www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/friedensakademie/meldungen/erasmus-austausch-anmeldung2020

Contact:
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Dr. Charlotte Dany
Phone: 06341 28038552
Email: dany[at]uni-landau.de

Press Office Campus Landau
Kerstin Theilmann
Phone: 06341 280-32219
Email: ktheilmann[at]uni-koblenz-landau.de

There is a new exchange program between the Universities of Koblenz-Landau and Haifa in Israel: from the winter semester 2020/21, Landau students of social sciences and psychology can study peace and conflict research in the northern Israeli port city for a semester. Students from Haifa can complete an exchange semester in the Southern Palatinate.

The new exchange program was initiated by the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate with the support of Department 13: International Cooperation. The cooperation between the two universities will begin in spring with an exchange of lecturers. Landau academics will teach in Haifa and students in the Southern Palatinate will learn from lecturers from Israel. The new Erasmus+ program is the result of several years of cooperation between the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, the University of Haifa and the Israeli educational and meeting center Givat Haviva. As part of this cooperation, the institutions and other international partners have initiated a comprehensive and sustainable five-year program on knowledge and action skills in so-called Shared Societies. These are societies that aim to enable all social groups to participate as equally and comprehensively as possible.

"Israel is a particularly suitable place to study peace research because it offers young people special impressions," emphasizes Dr. Charlotte Dany, Managing Director of the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to the professional expertise of the University of Haifa and the exemplary initiatives for successful peace work in Israel, such as the Shared Society approach of Givat Haviva, the experience and observation in everyday life, through which students are sensitized to majority-minority conflicts or discrimination, for example, speaks for Israel as a place of study. "The exchange promotes intercultural and interreligious understanding as a basis for living together in a diverse society," says Dany.

Peace research is a topic for the future
Peace research and peace education are important and a topic for the future due to numerous conflict situations such as increasing anti-Semitism or social division and polarization. At the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau, a broad cooperation between university institutions and projects is exploring highly relevant social issues, including how such conflicts can be dealt with constructively and how social cohesion can be successfully achieved. In addition to the Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, the Human Rights Education project of Department 6: Cultural and Social Sciences, the rhetoric focus of the Competence Center for Studies and Careers (KSB) and the Klaus Töpfer Junior Professorship for Land Use Conflicts with the topics of peace, conflict and human rights contribute to the university's special profile along its guiding principle of "Education-Human-Environment". "The exchange with the University of Haifa also brings peace science and peace education expertise to the Palatinate, which was developed in the context of a complex conflict," emphasizes Dany.

Many institutions at the University of Landau are involved in the exchange with Israel - an example of successful internal cooperation for Associate Professor Dr. Francesca Vidal, Head of the Rhetoric Department. In addition to the Peace Academy and the focus on rhetoric, these include the Institute for Education in Childhood and Adolescence, which organizes annual study trips to Israel for students, and the Frank Loeb Institute, which organizes lecture and discussion series. The German Friends of Givat Haviva work together with the Rhetoric focus, the Certificate in Human Rights Education and the Peace Academy.

Further information on the exchange program can be found on the website of the Peace Academy:
www.uni-koblenz-landau.de/de/friedensakademie/meldungen/erasmus-austausch-anmeldung2020

Contact:
Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
Dr. Charlotte Dany
Phone: 06341 28038552
Email: dany[at]uni-landau.de

Press Office Campus Landau
Kerstin Theilmann
Phone: 06341 280-32219
Email: ktheilmann[at]uni-koblenz-landau.de