If you would like more information or have any other questions about Seeds of Peace, please contact Dan Ettinger, External Relations Manager at Seeds of Peace.
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5. • 8,043 conflict-related deaths in last decade
• Countless physically debilitating injuries
• Economic disruption and destruction
• Emotional and physical trauma
• Tensions rising, talk of a third intifada
• Implications for global economy and regional stability
The Cost of Conflict
7. Treaties are made by governments…
Peace is made by people.
There’s a saying at Seeds of Peace
8. • To humanize the conflict through open
dialogue
• To provide conflict resolution and leadership
training
• To create a network of young leaders who will
become a core constituency for peace
Objectives
9. • If given the opportunity, youth will choose
coexistence over conflict, and hope over fear
• Dialogue is an essential tool in the quest for
peace
• Generational conflict demands generational
change
Core Beliefs
10. Part I:
Seeds of Peace
International Camp
The Seeds of Peace Program
11. Selected through a competitive process determined
by each country’s government, these 14-17 year olds
represent the best and brightest of their generation.
12. Bunks and dialogue groups are organized by conflict
region.
In 2010, Seeds of Peace is focusing on three conflict
areas:
• The Middle East
• South Asia
• Maine
Conflict Regions
13. A lot like any other summer
camp…
Seeds of Peace International Camp
17. But unlike any other summer
camp...
• Group challenge & team building activities
• Daily dialogue sessions organized by regions
of conflict
International Camp
18. For 90 minutes each day, Seeds discuss the most
painful and divisive issues of their conflict in
professionally facilitated dialogue sessions.
Coexistence Program
19. Challenging inherited prejudices with real stories
and experiences, dialogue sessions are intense and
emotionally exhausting.
Coexistence Program
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23. • Color Games, the Seeds of Peace Olympics, is the
culminating event at the end of Camp every session.
• Color Games is:
– Intensely competitive
– Encourages cooperation
– Rises above ethnic and national divides
Color Games
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27. 40 adult Delegation Leaders,
most often leading national
educators, are chosen by their
governments to prepare and
chaperone campers.
At Camp, Delegation Leaders
participate in their own adult
coexistence program.
At home, they help lead follow-
up programs with Seeds.
Adult Educators Program
28. Part II:
Seeds of Peace
Regional Programming
The Seeds of Peace Program
31. Strengthening our Seeds
• Advanced Dialogue
Groups
• Women's Empowerment
• Arabic & Hebrew
Language Courses
• Civic and Cultural
Education
• Cross-Border Workshops
After Camp – The Middle East
32. • Community Service
Projects
• The Olive Branch: The
Youth Magazine of
Seeds of Peace
• Seeds Café Public
Lecture Series
• Sesame Seeds
Seeds Strengthening their Communities
After Camp – The Middle East
33. • Delegation Leaders
Program
• Parents Program
• Cross-Border Workshops
for Educators
• Model Schools Initiative
• Peaceful Learning
Environment Workshops
• The Olive Branch Magazine
Teacher's Guide
Building Networks of Concern
After Camp – The Middle East
34. • Over 4,000 Seeds in 17 years. Programs have included youth
from divided Cyprus and the Balkans, and continue to include
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
• Seeds of Peace has been endorsed and supported by:
– Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton, George Mitchell,
Kofi Annan and Tony Blair
– Queen Noor, Mahmoud Abbas, Shimon Peres
• Seeds are branching out as leaders in a wide variety of careers
– Business, law, politics, media, education,
non-profit work and as parents.
Results
35. Bushra, Palestinian Seed
• Job: Consultant | UN Secretary
General's Special Coordinator to the
Middle East Peace Process
• Regional Programming:
Documentary Film Project, Peace of
Mind: Coexistence Through the Eyes
of Palestinian and Israeli Teens
• Years at Camp: 1995, 1997, 1998
• Age: 27
• Palestinian Delegation
Snapshots of Success
36. Lior, Israeli Seed
• Job: Anchorman/Editor for Channel
2 News, Israel
• Regional Programming:
UN Conference on Uprooting Hatred
and Terror
• Years at Camp: 1999, 2000
• Age: 25
• Israeli Delegation
Snapshots of Success
37. “Seeds of Peace, you are no longer a miracle in the Maine
woods. You have found your way into the larger world in so
many different ways and you are forging your own path to
peace.”
- Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
38. “The best thing I’ve seen in the region over the last eight
years is this Seeds of Peace program. That kind of dialogue
is what has to replace the bullets and the rocks.”
- President William Jefferson Clinton
39. There are many ways that you can
support Seeds of Peace!
For more information,
contact the New York office.
Seeds of Peace
370 Lexington Ave., Suite 401
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 573-8040
Email: info@seedsofpeace.org
Website: www.seedsofpeace.org
Get Involved
Note: All other camp activities bring together youth from all delegations.
During this time, the camp is divided into two multi-national teams that compete in every camp activity.
Upon returning home, they, like the campers, are offered follow-up educational experiences to maintain their commitment to the dialogue process and continue working with their colleagues across borders.
