Filming
successes for the Middle East
Thursday, 18 August 2011
"People
become the stories they hear and the stories they tell."
-- Elie Wiesel
"You can't
make peace with your enemy, without your enemy."
-- Reena
Lazar, Director
Peace
It Together, Canada
Summer 2011 -- relationships flowered, growing more human success
stories especially among young adults.
North America continued hosting numerous camp-like
programs for increased engagement and concrete creativity among Israelis and
Palestinians -- Muslims, Christians, Jews, and supportive others -- for
the Middle East citizen-to-citizen public peace process.
The tradition began in 1979 with Global Youth
Village of Legacy International in Virginia.
READ the history at http://traubman.igc.org/camphist.htm
Increasingly, the youth are becoming artisans of
telling their stories in film.
Living and picturing their preferred future.
Not waiting for "things" to change.
PEACE IT TOGETHER
British Columbia, Canada
The month-long program of PEACE IT TOGETHER -- http://www.peaceittogether.com
-- engages students in 10 days of trust-building exercises before
dividing them into trios that will make 10 short films about the Holy Land.
Beyond themselves, they foster relationships with
journalists in search of what's truly new.
READ:
Filmmaking
program in B.C. brings together young Palestinians, Israelis
The Record -- 22 July 2011
SEE six, short powerful films that document the youth dialogue and film
making activities -- an inside look at how "enemies" build trust and
create together.
A
look into Peace it Together 2011
http://www.peaceittogether.com/?section=what-we-do&page=behindthescenes
VIEW this year's 10 original, youth-inspired films now online:
The
Ten 2011 Films of Peace It Together
http://www.peaceittogether.com/?section=films&page=2011
Hands of Peace
Illinois, USA
HANDS OF PEACE -- http://www.hands-of-peace.org
-- is an interfaith organization developing peace-building and leadership
skills in Israeli, Palestinian, and American teens through the power of
dialogue and personal relationships.
Throughout July 2011, their in-depth living together
had great impact on these young women and men of excellence.
VIEW videos they created during their summer:
1. The Reality of Peace
http://vimeo.com/26739596
2. Piece of Peace
3. Together Peace
4. Give Peace A Chance
Football for Peace
Holy Land
FOOTBALL FOR PEACE (F4P) -- http://www.football4peace.eu -- is an activity-based
community-building and reconciliation initiative.
Sports coaches, community leaders, and volunteers work
alongside each other bringing differing communities together through football
and outdoor education.
In 2001, the project began by bringing together two
communities and 100 Jewish and Palestinian youth.
In 2011, today the program involves 37 mixed communities
with over 1,000 youth, partnered to form 14 Cross Community Sports Partnerships
(CCSP) -- http://www.football4peace.eu/underconstruction.html
READ AND SEE more:
Peace
on the Pitch
Jewish and Arab
children in Israel take part in
a football
festival with UK and German coaches
http://nazarethinfo.org/show_item.asp?levelId=63500&itemId=1921
Jews and Arabs Partner for Football 4 Peace
By Nathan Jeffay
01 July 2011
http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/tags/football-4-peace/
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These and hundreds of other success stories are preserved at http://traubman.igc.org/messages.htm