Religious LEADERS Stay
Twenty religious leaders from Israel stayed in Switzerland for a week. These men - Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze - hold judicial positions and their respective courts of justice are competent for family law matters. Together, they affect some 700,000 people, about 10% of the population in Israel.
This trip concludes three years of training at the Ono Academy (a private university near Tel Aviv) in the field of comparative law. The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (ISDC), as well as the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences of the UNIL, assisted in the organization of a series of lectures and a round table discussion.
aims of the stay
Three goals were set and they were achieved:
1. To enable these twenty people
to work together over the long term; the welcome at Crêt-Bérard and the living together allowed the members of the group to deepen their mutual knowledge and to deal in depth with issues whose resolution would make a significant contribution to the Middle East conflict.
2. To provide
an opportunity to increase academic knowledge in comparative law. The contribution provided by the ISDC has made it possible to broaden the fields of competence by presenting the problems of the relationship established in Europe between civil law and religious rights.
The public lecture given at UNIL allowed the presentation of a European example of a "way out of the crisis" of wars linked to religions, namely the Edict of Nantes (1598).
3.
Establish relations with the religious and political authorities of Waldensian and Swiss regions and with the members of Coexistences.
