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Ecumenical Accompanier role description
See if Ecumenical Accompaniment in Israel and Palestine is right for you.
We believe that everyone can take action to help end the occupation and bring about a just peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. We need a movement of people who can take action for peace. Will you join us?
We are recruiting for voluntary human rights monitors to serve with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine & Israel (EAPPI) in the West Bank and Israel in 2021. Human rights monitors working with us will:
To get an idea of what's involved, read some field reports written by Ecumenical Accompaniers (EAs) on our blog.
We recruit a year in advance and provide in-depth training and resources to help you to prepare.
No previous monitoring experience is required. Your expenses will be paid and a living allowance provided.
We expect EAs to be flexible, hard-working, physically and emotionally robust, open to hearing from different perspectives, and able to represent the programme in a professional manner.
We welcome applications from people of all faiths and none. Please read the role description and essential advice documents to find out more
Due to coronavirus public health measures, the closing date has been extended and we are accepting applications on a rolling basis; a final deadline will be announced here in due course. In the meantime, please keep your applications coming.
Interviews, originally planned for summer 2020, will be rescheduled for autumn 2020 or early 2021.
Please note that we recruit EAs for the UK and Ireland part of EAPPI only.
“It is an experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I hope I will become an advocate worthy of the many Palestinians and Israelis I met during my term."
- Veronica, EA from the UK, 2015
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Please read and share the eyewitness accounts EAs from Britain and Ireland have written on our Eyewitness blog. Can you also share with your friends and networks our EAPPI resources on issues such as education, access to worship and checkpoints?
You can also ask us for some EAPPI leaflets to share with your local church, school, workplace, or community.
EAs returning to their home communities are more than happy to share their stories by speaking to different audiences. If you would like to invite an EA to speak to your community group, please contact us at eappi@quaker.org.uk.
Contact your elected representative to ask them to act. Pressure from constituents via emails, phone calls and meetings is one of the most important and effective ways we can help influence government policy. To highlight a particular issue, you can send them an Eyewitness blog post.
To be effective when writing or speaking to an elected representative:
Find your elected representatives here:
Discover ways you can support Israeli peace activists and groups by visiting their websites. For example:
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"Ending the occupation is better for Israel. If you care deeply about Israel, you'll care about its soul, and its soul is being eaten away by the occupation."
- Gila Svirsky, Israeli peace campaigner
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Explore the situation first-hand by meeting people affected by the conflict and looking at aspects of life in Israel and occupied Palestine. Tours are run by a number of different groups including those listed below:
For information about applying to be an EA please contact:
eappirecruitment@quaker.org.uk
For information about other ways to get involved please contact: