Journal

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice’s online courses continue to gain wide approval. Eastern University in St. David’s, Pennsylvania, approved all three BIPJ’s Certificate Program courses to be added as electives to its MA in Theological and Cultural Anthropology. These courses include the semester-length Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1 and 2, offered in the Fall and Spring semesters, respectively, and the Summer Intensive, a residential [...]

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice (BIPJ) at Bethlehem Bible College has successfully completed its inaugural year of its Certificate Program in Peace and Justice!  More than seventy students participated in the Program’s course offerings from a wide range of countries including China, the Philippines, Liberia, South Africa, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, England, Wales, Canada and the US. Andrew Bush, the director of the BIPJ at BBC, says, [...]

Andrew Bush, the director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice (BIPJ), with the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East (NEME) recently conducted a webinar to celebrate the launching of  Bishara Awad’s new autobiography, Yet in the Dark Streets Shining.  In this webinar, Andrew interviews Bishara about his life story.  Co-written with Mercy Aiken, this is a moving account of a Palestinian family trying to survive the [...]

An interview with Dr. Tanas Alqassis about Considering Israel and Palestine from a Bi-Cultural Perspective

 An Interview with  Dr. Jonathan Kuttab about his new book Beyond the Two-State Solution.

On International Day of Education, meet Marcy Heinz, a Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice student, speaking briefly about her experience studying with us! “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When I stepped off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, [...]

Lisa Loden, Co-chair of the Lausanne Initiative for Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine and Board member of the Israeli Bible Society

Students from more than half a dozen countries are deeply engaged in the first fully online course of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice. The course is entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1.    The materials challenge the participants to consider what it means to be a peacemaker in our troubled world. Noted Palestinian lecturers are taking the discussion out of the ivory tower [...]

The Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice at Bethlehem Bible College launched its inaugural online course entitled Introduction to Peacemaking and Justice in the Palestinian Context 1. Andrew Bush, the director of the BIPJ, states: “We are excited that the course is fully enrolled with twenty-nine students from Liberia, the Netherlands, Scotland, England, Canada, the Philippines, and the United States. This fourteen-week course can be taken for credit or [...]

Global Peacemakers Speak: An Interview Series of the BIPJ Around the world, peacemakers are bringing transformative change in places of conflict and hardship. Often these visionary women and men do their work under the radar, with only those in their closest circles of associates appreciating their sacrificial work. Global Peacemakers Speak is our effort at the BIPJ to bring their voices and insights to a broader audience. Martin Accad, [...]

The “Gandhi of Palestine” has returned to the place that needs him the most Dr. Mubarak Awad is a world-famous Palestinian nonviolent activist. He is also known as the “Gandhi of Palestine.” Dr. Awad is the founder of the Nonviolence International, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has worked with the likes of Yasser Arafat, the ex-president of Palestine, to advocate for nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution. Our [...]