Camps for Jews and Arabs (Muslims and Christians)
in North America
Building Bridges for Peace
Children of Abraham Project
Creativity for Peace
Face to Face - Faith to Faith
Hands of Peace
Jacobs Internationl Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI)
Kids4Peace/Toronto
Kids4Peace/Atlanta
Middle East Peace Camp for Children
Oseh Shalom ~ Sanea al-Salam: Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp
Peace Camp Canada
Peace Camp Nova Scotia
Peace It Together
Project Triumph
Seeds of Peace
Read the 1970s early history behind the camps.
Read about the successful January 2005 first gathering of the conveners of most of these camps
There are those who make things happen. There are those who watch things happen. And there are those who ask, "What happened?"
This is about those who are causing new relationships to happen -- inventing their future -- for Jews and Palestinians.
Not waiting for governments or "experts," these cultural creatives hope their ideas will travel from North America across the ocean to Jerusalem and beyond.
Almost all Palestinians and Jews have never had an in-depth, sustained relationship with the "other," in the Middle East and worldwide.
This "big disconnect" allows them to maintain stereotypes and dehumanize each other -- staying at a distance, in ignorance and fear, doing what they're doing to one another at this moment.
Thus the urgent need for a greatly enlarged "public peace process" -- http://traubman.igc.org/changechartsall.pdf -- to discover the "other" equally human, equally excellent persons -- expand our identification to include each other, as described at:
http://traubman.igc.org/expandid.htm
And instead of resisting "against" each other, we can respond to one another and beging to cooperate, finally, described at:
http://traubman.igc.org/respond.htm
There is something magic about "enemies" coming together in a safe place in nature, to discover the humanity of the "other" and transform the nature of their relationships forever.
The decade-old pioneering efforts of "Seeds of Peace" in Maine, and "Building Bridges for Peace" in Colorado, are the premier summer camp youth experiences that usually come to mind right away.
Few realize that now their are a dozen camp experiences that have modeled bringing Palestinians and Jews together in North America.
Inspiration comes from each camp's story of of birth and success , even in the darkest of times?
What if your heard that one was initiated by an Israeli high school senior residing in Ottawa who met her very first Arabs and Muslims only in her junior year, and was so transformed that she dedicated all these months to assure other youth would have that life-changing experience?
Well, you just heard it.
Read how young Michelle Divon's new life began, in the story told at http://traubman.igc.org/youth3.htm .
And take time to appreciate the numerous North American camps that have been created, shown here all together for the first time.
And please pass on to others these hopeful stories of individual women and men who make things happen.
Our new future together is as close as an open mind and outreached hand -- and your courage.
Building Bridges for Peace
in Colorado, USA
http://s-c-g.org/Seeking_Common_Ground/Home_Page.html
Children of Abraham Project
in Michigan, USA
http://thechildrenofabrahamproject.org/
Creativity for Peace
in New Mexico, USA
http://www.creativityforpeace.com/
Face to Face - Faith to Faith
in New York, USA
http://www.auburnseminary.org/facetoface
Hands of Peace
in Illinois, USA
http://www.hands-of-peace.org/
Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI)
based in San Diego, Calif., USA, with travel to Spain and the the Middle East
http://jitli.org/
Kids4Peace
in Ontario, Canada
http://kids4peace.ca/
http://kids4peaceatlanta.org/
in Texas, USA
http://arc.episcopalchurch.org/episcopal-life/Kids4Pax.html
(AND earlier in Georgia, USA)
Middle East Peace Camp for Children
in Seattle, Washington, USA
http://www.middleeastpeacecamp.org/
Oseh Shalom ~ Sanea al-Salam
Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp
at Camp Tawonga near Yosemite Valley, California, USA
http://traubman.igc.org/camp2007.htm and http://www.tawonga.org/weekend-programs/peacemaker.php
Peace Camp Canada
in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
(in past)
Peace Camp Nova Scotia
in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(in past)
Peace It Together
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://peaceittogether.ca/
Project Triumph
in southern California, USA
http://projecttriumph.org/
Seeds of Peace
in Maine, USA
http://www.seedsofpeace.org/
Read about the successful January 2005
first gathering of the conveners of most of these camps
Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
1448 Cedarwood Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403
Voice: (650) 574-8303 -- Fax: (650) 573-1217
Web: http://traubman.igc.org/
E-mail:LTRAUBMAN@igc.org
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