Sommerakademie
Welcome to the Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue (SAiD). Here you can find general information of SAiD, get some impressions and learn about the Leading Team:
Sommerakademie für interkulturellen Dialog
Einmal im Jahr laden wir von der Stiftung Wings of Hope Deutschland junge Menschen aus unseren Projektländern Palästina und Israel, Kurdistan-Irak, Bosnien und Herzegowina und aus Deutschland für 14 Tage zur Sommerakademie auf den Labenbachhof in Ruhpolding ein. Was sie gemeinsam haben ist, dass sie aktiv in ihrer Gesellschaft einsetzen und sich für Dialog und Versöhnung einsetzen möchten.
Die Sommerakademie für interkulturellen Dialog 2022 (SAiD22) fördert junge Menschen aus Deutschland, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Israel, Palästina und Irak als Multiplikator:innen für Frieden, Toleranz und Versöhnung. Sie bietet den Teilnehmer:innen jenseits von politischen, ethnischen und religiösen Konflikten in den Herkunftsländern den Rahmen, Wege aus dem Trauma der Gewalt zu finden. Junge Menschen - Jüd:innen, Christ:innen, Muslim:innen und Atheist:innen - lernen von- und miteinander, wie zivile und demokratische Gesellschaften aufgebaut und Hass und Intoleranz, Gewalt und Unrecht überwunden werden können. Sie beschäftigen sich mit den Auswirkungen von individuellen und kollektiven Traumata in ihren Gesellschaften, setzen sich mit ihrer eigenen und mit anderen Kulturen auseinander, arbeiten an Konzepten der Erinnerungskultur in ihren Ländern, suchen in interreligiösen Impulsen nach Gemeinsamkeiten und meistern gemeinsam Herausforderungen, erleben den Reichtum kultureller Vielfalt im täglichen Zusammenleben und bauen Freundschaften über Grenzen hinweg.
Die zweiwöchige Sommerakademie für interkulturellen Dialog 2022 findet vom 14. bis zum 28. August 2022 in Ruhpolding statt. Hier kannst Du Dich bewerben (Frist: 10.05.).
Auf YouTube findest Du einen 10-minütigen Filmbeitrag über die Sommerakademie für interkulturellen Dialog
Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue
Foundation Wings of Hope Germany invites 25 young people - aged between 18 and 26 years - from its project countries Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kurdistan-Iraq, Palestine, Israel and Germany to participate at the Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue for 14 days in Ruhpolding, Germany. What they have in common is that they want to be active in their societies and want to engage in dialogue and reconciliation.
The Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue 2022 (SAiD22) supports young people to become multipliers for peace, tolerance and reconciliation. It offers them a frame to find ways out of the trauma of violence - beyond political, ethnic and religious conflicts in their home countries. In the course of two weeks, they look together, as Jews, Christians, Muslims and Atheists, for strategies, to build civil and democratic societies and to overcome hate, intolerance, violence and injustice. They learn in the workshops and seminars about the impact individual and collective traumas have on their societies, explore their own and other cultures, work on concepts of transitional justice and culture of remembrance. In interreligious impulses, they look for similarities. They experience cultural diversity daily during indoor and outdoor activities, and build friendships which exceed borders.
On YouTube you can find a 10 minute video clip about the Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue
The Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue 2022 takes place from August 14-28 in Ruhpolding, Germany. You can apply here.
Impressions
The Leading Team
Julia Borchardt
University Bielefeld, Germany
Julia completed her Bachelor degree in Psychology with a focus on Clinical Psychology and the topic of Trauma. Currently she is a MSc student in Psychology at the University Bielefeld.
She joined the leading team in 2016, after taking part in the Summer Academy as a participant in the previous two years.
Summer Academy is a place where you can share and question conflicts, politics, opinions or beliefs of others as well as your own freely. Being able to create this unique and often mind-changing experience for young adults and working on making the world a bit more peaceful, is what motivates Julia to be part of the leading team.
Azra Frlj
Association for psycho-social support and better future „Progres“, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Azra completed MSc in Psychology at the University of Sarajevo in 2011. In 2007 she spontaneously took part in a peace program in Sarajevo, supported by Wings of Hope Germany. This experience introduced her to the importance of dialogue and reconciliation work within youth in Bosnia and Herecegovina, as well as the region. Her interest for this subject grow while she met and exchanged important insights with other yound adults across the country. Through coming years Azra commited her self to volounteer work and youth activism in B&H. Since 2012 she is a team memeber of Association „Progres“ in Sarajevo where she works as project manager for Youth and Peace field. Azra is also educating her self in the psychotherapy field.
Summer Academy for Intercultural Dialogue is part of her life and now, also work, since 2009. She believes that specific group of participants gathered around SAiD idea every year is what makes this project uniqe and efficient. Intensive, well structured program and the group is what keeps every single participant attached and this context likely to creat a change, cogintive, emotional and at its end behavioral too. She sees empowering youth as long term goal that requires responsibility, effort and commitment.
Sanja Čović
Association for psyco-social support and better future ''Progres'', Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Sanja studied Law in Sarajevo. She is currently working at the Association ''Progres'', a partner organization of Wings of Hope. According to her interests and specific issues in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, after finishing high school she started to participate in different programmes dealing with the topic of reconciliation and youth activism in B&H. Since then she is attached with ''Progres''.
Summer Academy is a unique programme which helped her to find out more and to empower her resources in understanding different aspects of the conflict and dealing with the consequences of conflict. She believes that every participant, after being part of the programme, will open her or his views more out of personal boundaires. That's her motivation for being part of the leading team.
Sofia Renner
Peace and Conflict studies, M.A.
Sofia studied Political science, media science and Peace and conflict studies in Regensburg,
Istanbul and Magdeburg. She is currently working as a peace educator for teenagers and young
adults in Bonn.
An internship at Wings of Hope brought her to the Summer Academy in 2012. Since then she is
part of the leading team. Observing how the participants grow as persons, become aware of their strength and find a common language with the others as well as to see their motivation and determination to work for a better, peaceful future together is what motivates Sofia tob e part of Wings of Hope´s Summer Academy .
Hannah Sommer
History, B.A.
Hannah studied history and political science in Munich and Oslo, focusing on the history of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Over the last couple of months Hannah worked for different organizations both in the Westbank and Munich, dealing with the topics of democracy, gender equality and conflict resolution.
In 2018 Hannah first joined Wings of Hope for an internship and visited the trauma centre Wings of Hope for trauma in Bethlehem for several weeks. Gaining a good insight into the work of the foundation she decided to take part in the Summer Academy 2019 as a participant. Her motivation in joining the Leading team is her own experience of how the neutral and independent environment in which the participants of the Summer Academy meet each other enables a respectful exchange and the discussion of opposing opinions.
Maid Alic
Foundation Wings of Hope, Germany
Maid completed MSc in Business Administration at the University of Sarajevo. He worked as a volunteer in Germany in 2011 and since then he is part of the Summer Academy for Intercultural Dialogue. He is the finance manager of the Foundation Wings of Hope since 2017.
He believes that projects like the Summer Academy enable young people to meet different people so they can learn the lessons of peace and reconciliation with them and from them and be able to implement that knowledge back home.
Las Sabah Rashid
Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Las completed his bachelor degree in Political Sciences at the University of Human Development in Kurdistan Region/ Iraq. He works in the United Nation’s World Food Programme as a National Food Security Cluster Coordinator.
Las first participated in the Summer Academy as a part of the Kurdish team. He has been a part of the leading team since 2015 as a volunteer. He believes in the impact of dialogue between individuals separated by politics and conflicts. Seeing the influence of open dialogue on the individuals that participate in the Summer Academy and their development as free thinking youngsters is what motivates him to keep supporting the Summer Academy project.
Atran Youkhana
Foundation Wings of Hope Germany
Atran completed his Magister Artium (M.A.) in Political Science, Ethnology and Law at the University of Mainz. His research focus was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since 2014 he is a project coordinator at the Foundation Wings of Hope Germany, where he is responsible for the projects focusing on trauma and peace in the Middle East. In Germany he gives seminars on developments in Syria and Iraq.
Atran is part of the leading team of the Summer Academy for intercultural Dialogue since 2007. He believes that meetings and exchanges in a safe space inspire and empower the youth to commit in activities which support peaceful conflict transformation and help creating a better society.
