"By building unity within diversity, Nazareth Academic Institution is a model for reconciliation in the Middle East. Through human relationships we seek to transform minds and hearts, and bear witness that it is possible to be different and yet to work toward common goals of justice, integrity and peace.” (NAI’s vision)

As a peace-oriented institution, the Peace Center has been at the heart of the College’s activities since NAI’s foundation.

It has organized inter-faith and inter-cultural activities in Israel and abroad, including students’ exchanges, hosting international delegations, and organizing seminars, tours and conferences, all with the purpose of personalizing the ‘other’, meeting ‘others’ and working together for a better future for all.

The Centre has organized a summer session in the United States, allowing our student to meet their American peers, and gain cultural understanding and language skills.

Peace Studies are the core of NAI’s educational program. Uniquely for Israel, the College adopted the American model of education, requiring all students, regardless of their Major subject, to study a core of liberal arts – focusing on the different aspects of Peace Studies.

Our approach to peace studies is based on two pillars –

1. A theoretical pillar which is interdisciplinary and gives our students a humanistic perspective on history, philosophy and social sciences; they learn to acknowledge and respect the importance of narratives, theirs and others.

2. A skills component – focusing on negotiation, mediation, teamwork and facilitation.

The combination between the theoretical and skills components of the program manifests in Service Learning (community-based projects that bring together both theoretical and practical aspects, in a field experience), and through democratic teaching.

NAI views the academic program of Peace Studies, as well as the Peace Centre, as channels to pass on to our students and our community the model of co-operation on which this college is uniquely based and the core universal and humanistic values which underline this co-operation. Our work at NAI is dedicated to give our students not only the most advanced knowledge tools in their chosen field of study, but also the intellectual and practical tools to become Peace Leaders in their families, their work place, their immediate community and the larger environments in which we operate in Israel and the Middle East.