Wi’am Conflict Resolution Centre is our oldest partner in Palestine and provides an oasis for Palestinian communities in and around Bethlehem.
Situated next to a main checkpoint, and overlooked by a military watchtower and the Separation Wall, the centre provides a joyful act of peaceful resistance through its cultivation of community gardens complete with children’s play area.
The centre aims to strengthen local communities and to support them in tackling increased family breakdowns and community tensions created by the occupation and lack of freedom. Wi'am is rooted in the belief that helping people resolve their personal conflicts helps to preserve Palestinian society and people's faith in non-violent possibilities.
It offers counselling, mediation and reconciliation, helping to address the needs of all community groups including women, young people, couples, older people, neighbours and children.
To find out more about the work and theology that lies behind Wi'am and their long-standing relationship with Amos, please watch this short film.
Take a look through our range of resources, blog posts, downloads and products to find out more about our Palestine Justice work.
“Entering the Old City is a wonderful induction into Palestinian food and markets. Women from the surrounding villages sell fresh produce on the steps, the aroma of cardamom-infused coffee from street vendors hangs in the air.” Gemma Bell and Heather Masoud take us on a journey to the markets, restaurants and kitchens of Palestine. Photography by Issy Croker.
“I gave myself ten months to do it but gave up, defeated after four, admitting this would never be a popular fundraiser and that I was no runner. So Run The Wall was shelved.” Katie Hagley writes about how, eventually, Run The Wall became such a success.
Hello. Are you sitting comfortably? Welcome to 6 Stories, a literary update on our work from around the world. As the writer, James Joyce once said, “in the particular is contained the universal.” For what is given as being uniquely ours is often what we most have in common with every other person on this planet.
When I was a child, one of our neighbours in Gaza was a TV journalist, and she would let me wear her press vest. There I was, in a too-large navy-blue vest, holding the pestle that my mother used for crushing spices like a microphone, pretending to read the news from an Al-Jazeera news ticker. I would always end the ‘report’ by identifying myself as the Palestinian press icon: “Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera, The Occupied Jerusalem.” Walaa Sabah from We Are Not Numbers in Gaza writes about the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh.
During the 2020 Lockdown, we thought it was more important than ever to continue to talk about the issues that all our partners face, particularly in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a back catalogue of Amos@5 webinars from Season 1 featuring 30-minute conversations with thought-leaders and Amos partners and friends.
All of the Season 2 Amos@6 webinars are available to listen and watch again. Featuring 45-minute conversations with thought-leaders and Amos partners and friends including Paul and Bakiyam Sunder Singh from India, Liz Mnengwa from Kenya, Dieudonné Nahimana from Burundi, Mpendulo Nyembe from South Africa, Dr Suhaila Tarazi from Gaza, Ruth Daniel from In Place of War, Wisam Salsaa from the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem and Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, Raja Shehadeh and more.
All of the Season 3 Amos@6 webinars are available to listen and watch again. Featuring 45-minute conversations with thought-leaders and Amos partners and friends including Rasha Nahas, Asmaa Tayeh, Ola AlAsi, Amaka Okafor, Taysir Arbasi, Heather Masoud, Masuma Ahuja, Sam Richards, Sadock John, Luca Mee, Zoughbi Zoughbi, Clare Anastas, Alia Malek, Miranda Penell, Robert Cohen, George Zeiden, Diala Isid and Harry Baker.
All of the Season 4 Amos@6 webinars are available to listen and watch again. Featuring hour-long conversations with thought-leaders and Amos partners and friends including spoken-word poet Zena Kazeme, climate activist Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Paul Sunder Singh from Karunalaya in India.
All of the first season of Amos’ Dozen Tuesdays webinars are available to watch again. Featuring hour-long conversations with thought-leaders and Amos partners and friends including Domenica Pecoraro, Mpendulo Nyembe, Ellen Logan, Emily Reyes, We Are Not Numbers, Manal Ramadam, Marie Christina Kolo and Jeff Halper.
Amos Trust
7 Bell Yard, London
WC2A 2JR
UK
Telephone:
+44 (0) 203 725 3493
Email:
[email protected]
Registered Charity No.
1164234
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