Every year Galilee International Management Institute, Israel, delivers a summer programme for students of history, political science and Middle East studies and professionals interested in the Middle East. The programme focusses on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, its roots, background and current situation.
The programme begins with an overview of the Israel-Palestine region, presenting the historical background, as well as a look at the social and economic conditions; ethnic and religious backgrounds. The programme is of a two week duration; comprising 80 academic hours of lectures by Palestinian and Israeli academics and experts, offering their respective points of view. Different aspects of the conflict are examined by Palestinian and Israeli lecturers and different points of view are discussed. The lectures are supplemented with Study Tours in order to allow students to gain first-hand experiences of the region.
The programme seeks to deepen the participants’ knowledge of conditions, developments and trends in Israel and the Palestinian territories and to highlight some of the diverse issues at the centre of the political, social and religious divides.
