Initiatives like this...
film project woukld do far more to promote peace than all the wars ever fought.
One such story – or in fact, thirty of them - is unfolding this summer among the serene rainforest of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands. Thirty youth from Palestine, Israel and Canada will gather at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School on Galiano Island to engage in creative conversations and filmmaking in a peaceful and safe environment of mutual respect and co-existence for 18 days. The summer program is appropriately named Peace It Together.
I heard some of the students interviewed on CBC radio just before they were to head home, and they were crying becuse they would miss their new frineds so much - most of the apparently became very close, with no friction after the initial discomforts.