WBC Willy Brandt Center Jerusalem

About Us

The vision for founding the WBC was developed in an agreement signed between the German Jusos, the Palestinian Shabeebat Fateh, and the Israeli Mishmeret Tseirah shel Mifleget Ha-Avodah in 1996.

The three youth organisations agreed in this document to found a centre in Jerusalem. This centre should enable equal encounters between German, Israeli, and Palestinian youth and young adults.
Following three years of intense work in Jerusalem and in spite of the Second Intifadah, the vision became reality in October 2003.

Since then, a team consisting of ten young Germans, Palestinians and Israelis takes part in the work of the WBC. The Willy Brandt Center is located in Jerusalem on the Green Line in Abu Tor/Al Thouri.

The German umbrella organizations are the Support Association of the Willy Brandt Center and the forumCivilPeaceService, on whose idea the aims of the Center are based.

We strengthen trust and solidarity between young political activists. Together with them we aim to develop active forms of coexistence based on social and political justice.

We support the development of sustainable communication that is both intercultural and non-violent.

We develop an understanding for different historical narratives and realities the three sides live in and refer to.

As a center for encounters and communication the centre hosts three main projects at the moment:

• The trilateral project with activists of party youth organizations which signed the agreement in 1996, including the Young Meretz. All organizations are members of IUSY, the International Union of Socialist Youth.
• The joint bilateral project of the regional member organizations of the IFM-SEI, the International Falcon Movement – Socialist Education International.
• Events open for the public, such as Red Lounges, Political Cafés, Exhibitions, Workshops and Seminars taking place on a regular basis in the WBC
  

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