This web site contains the initial inventory of sites of shared regional heritage published by PUSH partners Al Quds University, Bezalel Academy and the Jordan Society for Sustainable Development, in the first half of 2007.
During the discussion and evaluation process
each PUSH team has been in constant dialogue with the other
two teams, to draw attention to the commonality of sites
located in Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian areas.
Weekly meetings were held at the management level,
augmented by regular full team meetings in Jerusalem, and
constant email and phone discussions. These meetings
and discussions enabled team members to create the
necessary synergy between the three national lists, as well
as to create and expand professional cross-border linkages
between the three partner institutions. As a result,
each team prepared an inventory of shared heritage sites.
Each inventory describes no less than thirty
examples of shared cultural and natural heritage
sites. The breadth of the sites is unparalleled; from
rock art, to religious and historical buildings; from
cultural routes, to sites of early technological
development, each of which illustrate the important
historical, cultural and natural heritage shared by the
peoples of the region.
The process of identifying sites of shared regional
heritage will culminate in the publishing of Our Common
Heritage at the end of 2007, after which PUSH will
focus its attention at the community level by developing
six pilot sites of shared heritage.