Solutions Not Sides is an education programme on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that exists to provide humanising encounters, diverse narratives, and critical thinking tools to empower young people with the knowledge, empathy, and skills to promote dialogue and conflict resolution, and to challenge prejudice in the UK.
We run workshops in over 200 British secondary schools and communities across the UK providing teenagers with face-to-face encounters with speakers from Israel and Palestine. In these workshops, attitudes are shifted away from supporting one side against the other and towards seeking solutions. Our workshops enable young people to find a place of solidarity and common ground while developing the capacity to embrace and celebrate diversity, and the skills to navigate difference and conflict.
The organisation is at an important point of strategic and partnership growth, reaching around 8,000 students per year and training around 300 teachers and community leaders per year, with an expansion plan for the next decade in place.
