Contact Information

Address: People to People Secretariat,

c/o Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies

Telephone: (972) 2/ 5327411

Fax: (972) 2/ 5321830

E-mail: fafo@netvision.net.il

Website: www.fafo.no

P.O. Box: P.O. Box 21751

Contact Information

Address: Palestinian Office, Palestinian Center for Peace

Telephone: (972) 2/ 2984285

Fax: (972) 2/ 2984286

E-mail: pcp@p-ol.com  

Website: www.people-to-people.org

P.O. Box: 1454, Ramallah

Founded in: 1993

Brief History of Organization

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Oslo realized that they had not met before on an equal basis. Obviously, they could not have built friendships. If this is true for the negotiators, it is even more so among the Palestinian and Israeli people. Therefore, it was considered urgent to create a framework within which ordinary people could meet, speak, overcome stereotypes, and reach some degree of mutual understanding and reconciliation.

Target groups are: 

• Adult dialogue and seminars
• School exchange and education (from 1998)
• Youth
• Culture
• Environment
• Media (until 1998)

In order to achieve its objectives, support is given to programs consisting of  joint initiatives by Israeli and Palestinian public and private organizations. Priority is given to initiatives that have a potential to bridge large audiences in the two societies. The program emphasizes the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in direct people to people interaction and "grass roots" cooperation.

• The Israeli and Palestinian sides will cooperate enhancing the dialogue and relations between their peoples in accordance with the concepts developed in cooperation with the Kingdom of Norway.

• The two sides will cooperate in enhancing dialogue and relations between their peoples, as well as in gaining a wider exposure of the two publics to the peace process, its current situation and predicted results.

• The two sides will take steps to foster public debate and involvement, to remove barriers to interaction, and to increase the people to people exchange and interaction within all areas of cooperation.

Norway is the main sponsor of the People-to-People Program, as it funds the Palestinian partners in each project and also covers the cost of the Norwegian secretariat.

Programs: 37 Youth programs