Tent of Nations
The Tent of Nations project seeks to bring youth of various cultures together to build bridges of understanding, reconciliation, and peace. Tent of Nations invites youth from around the world, especially from areas of conflict, together for face-to-face interaction. It also offers programs and facilities for solidarity movements, churches, youth organizations, and tourist groups.
Open Spans of empty pieces of land in the Palestinian areas are standing there with no one to watch over them, on the edge of a serious threaten of confiscation, the only hope left for them is the people who will work and bring life to them and protect their endurance.
Tent of nations put an enormous effort to protect massive pieces of land by bringing young people from local areas together with international groups, in order to maintain projects and activities on real ground. These projects aim to prepare and pioneer the young people for a better future and teach them the true belonging for their country, It also seeks to build bridges of understanding, reconciliation, and peace on a broad-spectrum base. On the long-term Tent of Nations desires to prepare young people for a positive contribution to their future and culture by bringing values of understanding and tolerance into their life experience, and to teach them the true belonging to their country. Tent of Nations is devoted to address cultural conflicts around the world, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, by facilitating positive encounters between young people from different cultures.
The website is not fully functional, however it has enough background information on the goal and vision of this project. These are exactly the types of projects and centers we need more of in our Arab World.