PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUTH
PROGRAMS
Dr. Harold Saunders, former U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State, helped broker five successful Israeli-Arab peace
negotiations.
He is founder and president of the International
Institute for Sustained Dialogue, at:
Saunders says that "peace negotiations
fail because leaders (and citizens) are unwilling to go down a path where they cant see the end.
Have you ever been on a road or trail for the
first time? Did it not feel easier, faster and safer the second time?
For Israeli and Palestinian youth
-- Muslims, Christians, and Jews -- it is the same with their relationships.
Helping Palestinian and Jewish youth travel the
road to friendship and cooperation are now more than a dozen camp-like summer
programs in
This growing
family of summer camps demonstrate what life will be like not far down the
road.
Four days in January, 2005, 26
camp leaders -- Palestinians, Israelis, Americans, Canadians
-- met in
Age teens to sixties, these women and men
generously shared their life and camp experiences in the
Their proceedings and collective social
intelligence were diligently recorded by journalist Alexandra Wall.
The resulting first-of-its-kind 71-page illustrated
document of human experience, concrete methods and inspiration is now freely
available for everyone's use.
We hope this landmark document will improve camps and energize
relationship-building activities everywhere to become the best they can be, for
the good of all.
SUMMARY REPORT
An Assimilation Weekend:
North American camps for the
June, 2005
Download, view and print at
http://traubman.igc.org/campconf.pdf