The International Executive Board is coordinating a Palestinian summer school for PYN member’s ages 18 to 35 for the summer of 2010. In the Madrid conference of 2008 the PYN founders adopted a two-year strategic action plan that called for the coordination of this summer school.

The PYN summer school will gather 40 active and competent Palestinian youth from various countries worldwide for three weeks during the summer of 2010. The objective of the summer school is to  strengthen the individual leadership skills, the collective leadership communication as well as the collective spirit of initiative and agency of PYN core members and leadership.

We aim to do this through developing a program that seeks to foster these principles in the following methods: seminars, group workshops, private reading, and discussion. Participants will enhance both their historical knowledge of the Palestinian question as well as the theoretical frameworks that informs the history of the Palestinian plight and quest for justice and liberation. The school also intends on providing the youth with the space to discuss the various issues that concerns them as young Palestinians while simultaneously developing a critical intellectual analysis of Palestinian exile, politics, society, culture nationalism, and resistance. Lastly the coursework will familiarize the youth on how to combine theory and methodology to create and sustain transparent, relevant and justice centered organizational leadership of PYN.