Date: November 10-13, 2015
Place: Tel-Aviv hotel “Sinet”
Participants: 7 women per each country
Aim: Familiarizing with the experience of Israel women organizations on how to change reality, that accompanies conflict: hatred, violence and hostility and create an alternative to admitting hope for peace in the region.
Meeting with Israel women – activists, who joined in women movements for peace and conflict prevention: Asa Istoshina, Ester Rappoport and Lana Ziberman.
The meeting discussed issues of violence, feeling of insecurity, fear of renewed hostilities and terrorist attacks, but at the same time, the willingness of women to exert all efforts to stop occupation and the establish of sustainable peace.
Members of the Georgian-Abkhazian groups in Haifa the former residents of Abkhazia and it was possible to see the problem through their eyes.
The meeting is useful by learning experiences - approaches, methods and motivation of Israel women to unite civil society for the peaceful future of the country.
The project is implemented with the support of Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA