The University of Haifa's Jewish-Arab Center

The JAC is involved in ongoing research and current affairs, and its activities are intended to encourage and support equitable coexistence between Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, including:

• Providing an umbrella organization for researchers from different disciplines and other countries to meet, exchange information, conduct studies and disseminate knowledge.
• New academic programs, especially Peace Studies, to include matters such as Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation;
• Promoting Bilingual Education, both through research and through various social and educational initiatives;
• Enhancing relevant data collection and developing a center that would provide information and guidance to researchers in fields related to Arab-Jewish issues;
• Establishing an operative basis for managing a broad, multidisciplinary research effort on the subject of civil society in Israel;
• Strengthening ties between Jewish and Arab students, and illuminating their common interests;
• Training future leaders from the Arab and Jewish student population;
• Enhancing, through partnerships and joint ventures between the University and the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities in Israel, the connections between the University and other academic organizations and with local and international NGOs with similar interests.