01Learn
Courses and pathways for personal and professional growth.
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Functions of the Campus
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Institutes
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Pathways of Exploration
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Nations Welcomed
The Vision
A center for welcoming the nations in Jerusalem — a global gathering place for learning, dialogue, spiritual development, cultural exchange, and human flourishing.
The Jerusalem Unity Center exists to hold a question that belongs to all people: what allows a human being, and a whole society, to flourish? The answer is pursued here through study and research, through the meeting of traditions, and through the practice of ethical leadership — in a place built for people to arrive as strangers and leave as neighbours.
The campus is conceived as a single continuous landscape rather than a set of separate buildings. Terraced pavilions step down the hillside above the city, gathered around gardens, courtyards, and walking paths, so that movement between learning, reflection, and conversation is unbroken. Every part of the plan serves one intention: to bring people together around our shared humanity.
The light within illuminates the path for all.
Jerusalem Unity Center
The Campus
The plan organises the campus around seven functions. Each is a place as well as a programme — a room, a garden, a hall, a chapter house — and together they form the daily life of the Center.
02Library
Timeless wisdom, modern research, global perspectives.
03Community
Dialogue circles, study groups, lifelong connections.
04Events
Conferences, workshops, retreats, and global gatherings.
05Institutes
Centers of excellence advancing knowledge and understanding.
06Research
Interdisciplinary research for the flourishing of humanity.
07Global Chapters
Local communities united in purpose across the world.
The Institutes
Six centers of excellence give the Center its intellectual structure. Each holds its own faculty, research, and public programme, and each opens onto the others — the questions they carry are not separable.
Consciousness
Explore the nature and development of awareness.
Spiritual Intelligence
Cultivate wisdom, purpose, and inner transformation.
Human Flourishing
Discover what enables individuals and societies to thrive.
Moral Leadership
Develop integrity, ethical leadership, and responsibility.
Global Dialogue
Build bridges across cultures, faiths, and perspectives.
Science & Consciousness
Bridge scientific inquiry and human experience.
Five Pathways of Exploration
Whatever brings a visitor to the Center — a course, a conference, a season of study, or a single afternoon in the gardens — the journey runs along five pathways.
Consciousness
Exploring awareness, perception, meaning, and human potential.
Spiritual Development
Cultivating inner growth, wisdom, purpose, and connection.
Human Flourishing
Supporting well-being, resilience, creativity, and fulfillment.
Dialogue & Understanding
Building bridges across cultures, faiths, disciplines, and perspectives.
Culture & Wisdom
Celebrating knowledge, traditions, arts, and stories that enrich humanity.
Realization
The Center is being built in the order in which it can serve: community first, then scholarship, then the campus that houses them, then the chapters that carry the work into the nations.
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Phase One
Foundation & Community
Establishing the founding community and its membership, the first dialogue circles and study groups, and a programme of learning delivered in Jerusalem and online.
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Phase Two
The Institutes
Opening the six institutes as teaching and research bodies — faculty, fellowships, published research, and the first international conferences and leadership forums.
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Phase Three
The Campus
Building the gathering place itself: the terraced pavilions, the library and archive, the assembly hall, the study rooms, and the gardens and courtyards that join them together.
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Phase Four
A Global Movement
Extending the work outward through global chapters, exchange and ambassador programmes, and an annual gathering that welcomes the nations to Jerusalem.
Indicative sequencing — phases overlap as resources and partnerships allow.
Build It With Us
The Seventy Nations (R.A.) Jerusalem is a registered Israeli nonprofit association that partners with its sister organization, The Jerusalem Unity Center USA — a 501(c) nonprofit foundation that allows its donors to take tax deductions for contributions of cash, goods, and other assets. Your support turns this plan into a place.
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