The project is an interventionist project designed to stimulate the development of a public discourse surrounding the interface between women’s freedoms and gender-based violence in the Palestinian minority in Israel. The project seeks to explore alternative networks of dissemination as a complement to the Association’s own awareness raising activities – specifically, the power and networks of the younger generation of Palestinian women. On the one hand, they still bear many of the traditional expectations placed on women; on the other, they inhabit a brave new world where they are expected to matriculate and find a place in the job market. The vast majority are computer-literate, and have access to extensive social networks and websites. Women Against Violence thus seeks to develop a program, which, if successful, will become an on-going component of its work. The program will work to identify small groups of young women of the Palestinian minority in Israel, and home of the Association’s offices). The program will provide them with a 5-segment (15-hour) workshop in which participants will explore and discuss the subject of women’s rights, women’s roles and the dimension of gender-based violence in a moderated setting; following this, participants will be trained in film-production and editing as part of a 30-hour course with a trained professional. With the end of the training segment, participants will break into groups to produce their own short films on issues of gender, status and violence, with free access to the requisite film equipment, editing programs and the Association’s offices which – like the services of the program’s coordinator - will remain fully open to them throughout. Following production and mastering of their short films, the groups will arrange a public screening for their work, as well as uploading it to a wide variety of Palestinian youth websites and social media sharing networks.

 

 

This Project is funded by: The Feminist Review Trust