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Important update on Camp
and Summer 2021

Apr 29, 2021 / 2 Comments

Seeds of Peace has been running a Camp program in Otisfield, Maine for 27 years. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose new challenges. This means that the location and structure of our programs will look a little bit different in Summer 2021.

At its core, Seeds of Peace develops courageous leaders to work in solidarity across lines of difference to create more just and inclusive societies. This mission will be reflected in all of our programs in summer 2021, whether they are in Maine, Jerusalem, Cairo, or over Zoom.

Regardless of location, duration, or program title, all of our participants will experience a rigorous leadership development program that is rooted in dialogue, community, leadership skills-building, and action-taking.

Through dialogue across lines of difference, participants make systems of power personal by connecting an individual’s experiences to the larger structures and patterns of power that they are nested in.

Through inviting youth and educators into the Seeds of Peace community, we are giving them the opportunity to engage meaningfully with other young people they might otherwise never have the chance to meet.

By teaching the leadership skills critical for affecting change, we are preparing youth and educators to take on leadership roles and tackle real-world challenges back home.

And with those skills, perspectives, and the solidarity of their Seeds of Peace community that youth and educators will then mobilize to take action for change.

Program Outcomes

When youth complete our leadership programs, they will have a deeper understanding of the problems facing their community, country, and world. They will have the skills to meaningfully participate in and lead efforts aimed at resolving conflicts, addressing urgent issues facing their communities, and promoting a more just and inclusive societies.

Who can participate?

High School students and educators are eligible for the following summer program opportunities. Please pay close attention to the location, as well as the grade level and other eligibility requirements for each program. We are also looking to recruit Camp staff over the age of 20 and educators who live in the Northeast United States.

United States

In the United States, we are planning for both virtual and in-person options.
Apply to the 2021 United States Summer Program (including Camp) ››

Youth at Camp

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, Camp applications will be open to youth in 9th and 10th grades living in two distinct regions around the Northeastern United States:

Session I: July 11-28 for campers from the greater Boston area (including Vermont and New Hampshire), the greater New York City area (including New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut), and Syracuse. Cost: $3,000.

Session II: August 1-18 for campers from Maine. Cost: $2,000.

Educators at Camp

Work with youth in the US Northeast? Interested in participating in the educators’ program at Camp? Learn more and apply now ››

Staff at Camp

Live in the Northeast United States? Interested in working at Seeds of Peace this summer? Applications for Counselors (including Lifeguards, Activity Specialists, Camper Support Staff) and Facilitators are now open››

Middle East, South Asia, and Europe

Our staff is working to plan local programs for youth in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and France.
Apply to the 2021 Palestinian Summer Program ››
Apply to the 2021 Egyptian Summer Program ››
Apply to the 2021 Israeli Summer Program ››
Apply to the 2021 Jordanian Summer Program ››

Stay connected

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We look forward to sharing more program details with you over the next few months. Our hope is to release applications for all summer opportunities by mid-March.

If you have questions and would like to be connected to the Program Director in your country or region, please email info@seedsofpeace.org.

‘Let’s get raggedy:’ 17 Camp phrases that speak to the heart of Seeds of Peace

Dec 27, 2018 / No Comments

Seeds can meet in the field, or become a champion in the pit; they can get raggedy and trust the process; take it back to dialogue or get on the bus.

While each Camp session has its own set of lingo, inside jokes, and chants, there are a few cherished phrases that have lasted through the years, usually for their ability to perfectly sum up an element of the Seeds of Peace experience.

Like grasping knots on a rope that stretches from one session to the next, learning these phrases brings campers closer to understanding the transformations and bonds that all the Seeds before them have shared. But for those who haven’t attended Camp or a Seeds of Peace event, some of the phrases can seem peculiar.

As applications open for 2019, we wanted to give an insider’s peek to some of the lingo future Seeds might hear around Camp, and help demystify what parents might hear their kids talk about afterward.

Many of these phrases are not original to Seeds of Peace, but each holds a special meaning for the organization. Below is a quick guide to some of these words and phrases:

CAMP CULTURE

1. The Field: Inspired by the Rumi poem “There Is a Field,” which speaks to a place beyond the narratives we’ve been given and moral codes we come from, this phrase refers literally to Camp, as well as the work that Seeds of Peace is doing. Camp is the field, a gray area between the binaries of right and wrong, and an experiment of the future that we’re trying to build.

2. The Stool: There’s a drawing of a three-legged stool posted on a tree where it can be seen by all the campers at every lineup (the time before each meal when campers come together for announcements, news and presentations). The legs represent respect, trust and communication. The seat can represent anything—your job, your community, your family, etc.—and all three legs are necessary to hold it up. Take away respect, trust, or communication, and the whole stool falls over.

3. The Pit: There’s no deep meaning here, just a place where gaga, a high-energy game involving a soccer-sized ball, takes place. Morning lineups usually include an announcement of who won the previous night’s games, and therefore have entered the pit of champions. Its mention is always answered, one fist pumping in the air, with chants of: “The pit! The pit! The pit!”

CAMP APHORISMS

4. Do Whatever You Can, With Whatever You Have, Wherever You Are: Wil Smith, a beloved Camp staff leader who died in 2015, would often use this phrase to remind campers that they don’t have to solve all the world’s problems in a day. Today, it is still used to encourage Seeds to focus on doing what they can to address the issues right in front of them.

5. The Way Life Could Be: A take on the Maine state slogan, “The Way Life Should Be,” this phrase reflects the experimental community that is built at Camp, and the hope that the relationships formed here can be replicated in places of conflict.

6. If You Ain’t on the Bus, You Ain’t on the Bus: This phrase serves two purposes. As a matter of practicality, it’s used to encourage campers to be on time ﹘ it literally means to be on the bus at the directed time or risk getting left behind. But it is also used metaphorically: If you don’t put in the work at Camp, you risk getting left behind by those who are moving forward around you.

7. It’s About the J-O-B: Teens have a job when they come to Camp—to connect, to learn from one another and to engage in direct and meaningful ways. When situations get hard, or campers try to avoid the work done in Dialogue Sessions, this phrase serves as a reminder of the greater purpose of why everyone is at Camp.

8. Refill the Cup: This proverb is usually intended for the adults in our educators’ programs, who are often in positions of constantly giving themselves to their work and those around them. While this selflessness may be second nature, the phrase reminds us that a cup that isn’t refilled from time to time will eventually be drained, and it’s necessary to implement restorative practices in service of yourself and others.

9. Two Ears, One Mouth: You’ve likely heard this phrase before, as in, “You have two ears and one mouth for a reason.” It emphasizes that the ratio of having two ears and one mouth is a biological reflection of the importance of listening, and hits at the core of our belief that communication is more about truly hearing each other than it is about speaking.

DIALOGUE MAXIMS

10. Get Raggedy: Being or getting raggedy is about speaking honestly from personal experiences without preparing or trying to sound smart in a certain way. This is often said to encourage participants in dialogue to open up and extend themselves to others.

11. Comfort, Stretch, and Panic Zones: Based on the model developed by experiential education specialist Karl Rohnke, this refers to the three areas of learning.

The comfort zone is where rejuvenation and a lot of joy happens, but there is no impetus to learn or grow because you already know what to expect.

In the panic zone, conversation is so uncomfortable that it’s hard to engage and listen; your fight-or-flight instincts kick in, and the brain stops functioning as it normally would.

The stretch zone, while not comfortable, is the sweet spot. This is where the most learning and growth takes place, and therefore we try to place campers here as often as possible, be it through trying new activities, taking on tough conversations in dialogue, or reaching out and saying hi to a new person.

12. Take Space, Make Space (a.k.a. Step Up, Step Back): This phrase is a reminder to think about how much we are contributing to a conversation and to adjust accordingly. If you realize you have a tendency to talk a lot in conversation (i.e. take up a lot of space), consider challenging yourself to take time to listen, therefore making space for someone else to speak. On the flip side, if you are one to normally hold back, this encourages you to push yourself to speak up.

13. One Diva, One Mic: Often used as a group norm in dialogue, this phrase, in a nutshell, means to speak one at a time.

14. Tell the Plot, Leave Out the Characters: Some of the most important takeaways in Dialogue come in the form of personal stories. There may be times for many campers when a story told in Dialogue is useful for upsetting a narrative—e.g., “My friend has experienced police brutality, so I know that these things do happen”—but it’s also important to maintain the storyteller’s confidentiality and not give their names.

15. Don’t Compare Your Pain: This idea refers to recognizing that everyone in a Dialogue group holds things that cause pain and that are not in service to them. If we’re comparing pain in a way that keeps us from being honest or sharing openly—either by withholding information because a person feels that their pain isn’t bad enough to merit sharing with the group, or by saying that person’s pain is less than their own—we’re not doing ourselves or the group any good.

16. Take It Back to Dialogue: Campers often reach out to counselors and facilitators when a Dialogue-related issue arises outside the Dialogue Hut, or a person leaves a session feeling like there’s something else they wanted to talk about. But they are always encouraged to “take it back to Dialogue”—meaning that the most effective way to deal with the issue is to discuss it head on with their Dialogue group.

17. Trust The Process: The important lesson here is trusting that you are in a process. When things get difficult in Dialogue, campers are reminded that this hard work is part of their process for learning, growing, and becoming the person they want to be. It’s also an important part of being in a group: As a group we will have conflict, and we need to trust that we’ll move through it—perhaps some individuals will do so at different speeds—but that it’s all part of the process.

Did we miss something? Let us know your favorite phrases from Camp (and what they mean) in the comments below!

One teen at a time
The Dallas Morning News

Sep 15, 2004 / No Comments

Casey Zager, 14, of Longview thought the Arab teens would be arrogant. Which is pretty much what Shatha Bandak, 16, of Amman, Jordan, expected of the American teens at Beyond Borders: Arabs and Americans in the 21st Century, a program run by Seeds of Peace at its International Camp held in Otisfield, Maine, at the end of August.

But after two weeks of games, role-playing, listening to music—American and Arabic—belly-dancing and, at one point, falling out of a canoe, the teens bonded.

Which is the point of the nonprofit organization, which provides direct communication among teenagers in order to foster understanding needed to build a peaceful future.

Six Texas teens were invited to be part of the dialogue of 65 young leaders from the United States, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan. Here are thoughts from some of the Texans and their Arab bunkmates.

Shatha Salim Bandak, 16, Amman, Jordan

What surprised you the most?
They were so welcoming and friendly.

What do you have in common?
Same basic way of living (hanging with friends, listening to music, going to school, studying for exams, playing sports, etc.).

How are you different?
The background and the cultures.

Did anything change your mind about any issue?
The color games made me change my mind about certain people. I thought they would be arrogant and wouldn’t talk to me, but we became friends. It happened because we were unified under one goal.

What was the most important thing you learned?
I had a thought that it was the government [causing problems].

Yazid Al Saeedi, 16, Sana’a, Yemen

What surprised you most?
That they [the American teens] are very helpful and they are ready to listen and talk.

What do you have in common?
I feel that we are almost the same. We like the same things and hate the same things.

How are you different?
I think that the only difference is the religious difference. There were some disagreements between us at the beginning, but then we started to understand each other.

Did anything change your mind about any issue?
Yes, dialogue sessions. The reason why is that they are very good people and we have much in common.

What was the most important thing you learned?
I want to tell them don’t judge people until you know them better, and don’t hate anyone because of his government or people.

Safia Abdel Hamid Yousef, 16, Cairo, Egypt
What surprised you most? That they [the American teens] are not that different than me.

What do you have in common?
A person in my bunk and I both sing in school.

How are you different?
Religious issues. Like saying Islam promotes violence.

Did you change your mind about any issue?
Yes, that I need to be more open-minded. My bunkmates are very good friends and we will keep in touch.

What was the most important thing you learned?
Live life to the fullest. Don’t generalize and give everyone a chance.

Autumn Reeves, 16, Kennedale

What surprised you most?
I expected most of the Arab girls to wear head coverings, but only a few wear the hijab and only because they choose to. Not all of the Arabs are Muslims. One girl in my bunk from Jordan is Christian.

What do you have in common?
Each of the Arab countries have stereotypes of each other just the way people from other states do (Texas—cowboys, y’all; California—surfers). The Arab girls like makeup, cellphones and the mall. I thought they wouldn’t know anything about our music, movies, TV. But really they know more than some of the Americans. A lot of the girls said their favorite movie was Miss Congeniality.

How are you different?
I never thought I would like Arab music but there is this one song I really like.

Did you change your mind about any issue?
I learned Arabs are not terrorists. Only individual people are terrorists.

What was the most important thing you learned?
Just because someone looks a certain way or comes from a certain place or speaks a certain language doesn’t make them any less or any better. People are people.

Leead VanGruber, 16, Dallas

What surprised you most?
I was surprised to hear Ahmed in my bunk say that he believes violence is the last resort. Instead he believes in trying to understand others’ cultures.

What do you have in common?
We talked about issues facing the world and different ways of solving them. None of the Arab teens were hard to connect to. All of them were open to the comments Americans made.

How are you different?
At the beginning, most of the Middle Eastern teens were quiet. But as camp progressed they came out of their shells.

Did you change your mind about any issue?
When I first came to camp I was somewhat nervous that other campers might force me to change my views, but most Arabs and Americans accepted my points of view and respected them.

What was the most important thing you learned?
All of the Arab delegations have become close friends of mine. There is no question as to whether we will keep in touch. It’s going to happen. Either e-mail or video conferencing will help us.

George Brown, 15, Fort Worth

What surprised you most?
All the Arab teens command the English language so easily.

What do you have in common?
Arab teens listen to a lot of hip-hop music and have a lot of the same values, like love your family, respect your friends and talking to each other is good.

How are you different?
I am not that religious and praying seven times a day is new to me.

Did you change your mind about any issue?
I did change an opinion on life. When my friend Makhmoud was trying to teach me Arabic, he taught me how to say, ‘I am doing good.’ I asked him, How do you say ‘I am doing bad’? He said that in Islam he believes that as long as you are alive, you are never having a bad day.

What was the most important thing you learned?
I realized that I am here to fight ignorance. If it is my job to combat such a hideous foe, it is a fight worth fighting.

Read Nancy Churnin’s follow-up story, Peace time: On a visit to Jordan, Texas and Arab teens continue dialogue »

Camp plants seeds of tolerance
Lewiston Sun Journal

Jul 22, 2010 / No Comments

OTISFIELD | Young people from Maine and the Middle East say they have something in common: the need to respect others’ opinions.

Sitting under a shade tree at the entrance to the Seeds of Peace camp in Otisfield early Wednesday morning, six young people from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt and Maine agreed that unless they listen to each other and respect their differences, peace efforts will not be successful, whether in the Middle East or Maine.

The group of peer leaders were among the 155 campers who arrived Monday for the 18th annual session of the Seeds of Peace camp. They began a three-week dialogue they hope to carry back home in their efforts to create a peaceful coexistence and reconciliation in their home countries.

As part of that effort, about 32 young people from Maine are participating in the Maine Seeds program to address racial and socioeconomic tensions in their communities.

The idea to expand the Seeds of Peace philosophy to a more localized Maine Seeds program began 10 years ago when tensions began to rise, particularly in Portland and Lewiston where immigrants have settled.

“We have our own issues,” said Jack McAleer of Orono, a peer support leader in the Maine Seeds program. He spoke of the need to face and overcome prejudice against incoming foreigners to the state of Maine.

“We’ve had more than 300 in the Maine Seeds program,” said director emeritus Tim Wilson who now serves as senior international adviser. Wilson said the young people are selected from local high schools across the state, regardless of whether it is an affluent city like Scarborough or a poorer town in northern Maine.

“There are two Maines,” Wilson said. “People don’t want to talk about it, but there are two Maines.”

The students who are selected as campers and peer leaders show leadership skills. “It’s not necessary to be a goody-two-shoes,” he said.

The peer leaders who came back this year as peer supporters said it didn’t matter whether they came from Maine or a Middle Eastern country. They came with one impression and left with another.

“I came to fight,” Zain Halawani, a peer support leader from Jordan, said of her first year at the camp. She was not alone. “I didn’t want to hear anyone.”

But like other campers who came with the same impression, Halawani said one day she simply stopped and said to herself that she should listen. “There are two sides,” she said.

That revelation led her to a greater understanding and tolerance of her camp mates and to the desire to come back two years later as a peer support leader.

Time after time, campers spoke of the need to “open” their minds to other cultures.

There is no difference between countries when it comes to prejudice, McAleer said. It all has a “ripple effect,” he said.

Speaking about the immigration of Somalis, Sudanese, Iraqis and others to Maine over the past decade, McAleer said there is a need to find a “common space” for all to live together.

Representing the United States at the Seeds of Peace camp has not always been easy, Kayla Pincus said.

“It’s a very complicated role,” she said. “The American delegation struggles with more than most. We’re not there. We don’t belong here,” she said of the perceived feeling Middle East campers may have toward their American counterparts.

But Pincus said the United States plays a primary role in the Middle East conflict. “I think I belong here,” she said.

Youssef Basha of Egypt agreed. “Each had their own stories (of prejudice) to tell.”

The key to it, said Hanna Al-Alamo of Palestine, is to “open your mind and heart to accept other people.”

Read Leslie H. Dixon’s article at The Lewiston Sun Journal »

Basketball Hall of Famers help nurture Seeds of Peace
Lewiston Sun Journal

Jul 20, 2016 / No Comments

OTISFIELD — Never doubt the power of layup drills, nor their ability to change the world.

Basketball Hall of Famers Dave Cowens and Teresa Johnson, current NBA players Tobias Harris and Matt Bonner and 2008 NBA champion Brian Scalabrine were among a handful of current and former professional basketball players and coaches participating in the Play for Peace clinic for 159 Seeds of Peace campers Wednesday.

“I think that the importance of the NBA players coming here is mostly because we feel important,” said Aviv, a 17-year-old camper from Israel. “We are doing something, and people around us care about what we’re doing.

“And sometimes we inspire people — like, they tell us all the time that this is what we are doing, but we don’t feel that way. But if NBA players are arranging their times and do their best to come here, it means a lot. So we feel important. It’s like all the work we’re doing here is not just a waste.”

Most of the Seeds of Peace campers are from the Middle East. They are spending three weeks in Maine engaging with each other in an effort to end the generations of conflict among their countries.

Pretty serious stuff.

And, somehow, The White Mamba helps it all make sense.

Scalabrine has become a fixture at Seeds of Peace. He said this is his 13th year participating in the Play for Peace basketball clinic.

“We are here to support Seeds of Peace,” Scalabrine said.

Most of the campers don’t play basketball and don’t follow the NBA, but they know Scalabrine and they know his nickname. When he was introduced at the start of the clinic, many of the campers shouted, “White Mamba!”

Adham, 17, of Palestine, is at Seeds of Peace for the second time. This time, he is serving as a peer support and paradigm shifter. He didn’t know who the basketball players were when he first attended the camp in 2014.

“He was the name I remembered the most, so when I went home, the first thing I typed on Google was ‘The White Mamba,'” Adham said.

Like most American teenagers, Adham uses Google. The same can probably be said of teenagers in Israel or Jordan.

Abdulrahman, 15, of Jordan, found many fellow campers who, like him, play Pokemon Go.

“Seeds of Peace is a new experience that helps change us, in many different forms,” Abdulrahman said. “For me, personally, I saw that we’re all the same and that we all have the same interests and ideas — like we’re not different at all.”

Abdulrahman is one of a small number of campers who actually plays basketball at home. He was excited to be able to make it through all of the basketball drills after injuring his ankle on Tuesday.

Scalabrine, Cowens, Luke Bonner, Matt’s younger brother, and Josh Bartelstein, a former University of Michigan player who now works for the Detroit Pistons, taught layup, dribbling and passing skills and held layup contests between the two sides of the outdoor court.

Can layups really help change the world?

“It fits because it shows that we are together,” Abdulrahman said. “All of the Middle East — from whatever side you look at it — we’re all together, playing sports together as one group, regardless of your nationality.

“So basically, this is a time where we can play together, remember that we’re all the same, we’re all human beings — and we are friends, after all.”

Cowens was smiling throughout his first appearance at Seeds of Peace on Wednesday.

“This is awesome,” Cowens said. “This is what it’s all about. The game should be a unifier. That’s what this is all about, is just get everybody to open up to knowing they have more in common with each other than they have differences.”

Arn Tellem, a longtime sports agent who now runs the basketball side of the Detroit Pistons’ franchise, first got NBA players involved in Seeds of Peace in 2002. He said the basketball clinic has an impact on the players as well.

“I think they leave with gaining as much as the campers,” Tellem said. “I remember one of the players said to me, ‘I thought we had problems in our cities. And now I know there’s a whole other side to this world.’

“So even to the players, it opens their eyes to what’s happening globally,” he said. “And all of them inevitably — whether it’s from CNN or some other news station — follow afterwards what’s going on in the Middle East. It gives them a much greater awareness.”

Scalabrine said that awareness has extended to his family, who sometimes accompanies him to the camp. On the drive home to Boston after last year’s camp, his daughter, now 9, had a lot of questions.

“‘Why do they do this?’ and ‘Why are they fighting?'” Scalabrine said, repeating his daughter’s questions. “When you try to answer those questions, they’re really difficult to answer. So I got a lot of joy out of seeing her, I feel like, grow up really quick in one or two days.”

Abdulrahman wants to do similarly when he goes back to Jordan: share what he’s learned.

“I hope to increase the understanding (of) myself and also my family into this topic,” Abdulrahman said. “So hopefully one day, we can help end this conflict itself.”

Most of the Seeds of Peace campers are from the Middle East. They are spending three weeks in Maine engaging with each other in an effort to end the generations of conflict among their countries.

Pretty serious stuff.

And, somehow, The White Mamba helps it all make sense.

Scalabrine has become a fixture at Seeds of Peace. He said this is his 13th year participating in the Play for Peace basketball clinic.

“We are here to support Seeds of Peace,” Scalabrine said.

“He was the name I remembered the most, so when I went home, the first thing I typed on Google was ‘The White Mamba,'” Adham said.

Like most American teenagers, Adham uses Google. The same can probably be said of teenagers in Israel or Jordan.

Abdulrahman, 15, of Jordan, found many fellow campers who, like him, play Pokemon Go.

Abdulrahman is one of a small number of campers who actually plays basketball at home. He was excited to be able to make it through all of the basketball drills after injuring his ankle on Tuesday.

Can layups really help change the world?

“So basically, this is a time where we can play together, remember that we’re all the same, we’re all human beings — and we are friends, after all.”

Cowens was smiling throughout his first appearance at Seeds of Peace on Wednesday.

Abdulrahman wants to do similarly when he goes back to Jordan: share what he’s learned.

“I hope to increase the understanding (of) myself and also my family into this topic,” Abdulrahman said. “So hopefully one day, we can help end this conflict itself.”

Read Lee Horton’s article and view Andree Kehn’s photos at the Lewiston Sun Journal »

World-renowned designer Marithe+François Girbaud becomes official sponsor of Seeds of Peace

Dec 19, 2006 / No Comments

(Français) / (Italiano)

MILAN & PARIS | Marithé+François Girbaud has denounced war. Far from an opportunistic move, this decision forms part of a long-term strategy designed to address adults who are aware of the world around them and concerned about the future of our planet.

Today, Marithé+François is talking about rebuilding, opening up, sharing, exchanging, using a communication strategy that appeals to reason and to the children of tomorrow—children who will grow up in a world that is an increasingly

OPEN SPACE.

The strategy applies to all the company’s communications: medias, outdoors, other marketing tools, in-store and online.

Seeds of Peace is proud to announce a partnership with Marithé+François Girbaud, the world-renowned French designer brand. Starting in February 2007, Marithé+François Girbaud will launch an advertising campaign that will feature Seeds of Peace. The million-dollar campaign will run in print magazines such as Vogue, Elle, Marie-Claire, Glamour, and Vanity Fair, and will be seen by an estimated 9 million readers in France, Italy, Germany, UK, and Japan.

In addition, the campaign will be featured on billboards in high-traffic locations in the heart of European and Asian capitals. This partnership was announced in press conferences in Paris and Milan in December 2006.

In addition, Marithé+François Girbaud will design a line of clothing especially for SoP. These clothes will be available for sale exclusively on the Seeds of Peace website, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Seeds of Peace. This advertising campaign marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between Seeds of Peace and Marithé+François Girbaud.

Summer 2007 photoshoot : a dozen teenagers originating, either by birth or through their families, from places like Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, the Ivory Coast, and Tibet came together at a studio in Aubervilliers, Paris to bring the brand to life the clothing of tomorrow, the clothing they want to wear today and in their near future as young adults. These young people are the hope for different tomorrows and they owe it to themselves to represent the future with beauty. They are sowing the seeds of peace under the lens of Jackie Nickerson*.

To strengthen the brand’s message and to give it even more depth, the company has partnered with the non-profit organization “Seeds of Peace” (SoP).

SoP, founded in 1993 by the American journalist, John Wallach, is supported by famous names such as Bill Clinton, Queen Noor of Jordan and Shimon Peres. The organisation has created a process to sow the seeds of peace in the hearts of teenagers who have lived in regions of conflict, particularly the Middle East, since their birth. The objective of SoP is to establish a dialogue and show that young people around the world share the same hopes, the same desire to achieve personal fulfillment and the determination to build the foundations for a peaceful future.

Marithe+François Girbaud has committed itselves to supporting these efforts, associating its communication with the work of SoP and putting their talents at the service of the organization by creating a range of new merchandising tools. SoP will be present at future events organised at the stores in New York, Paris and Tokyo and will form an integral part of future communication campaigns.

* An Anglo-American born in Boston, but who now lives in London, Jackie Nickerson spent 5 years in the world of fashion before deciding to work on her own projects (starting in 2002, with the publication of the book “Farm”, a collection of striking images of farmers in South Africa). She regularly works with the New York Times and now, for the third time, has partnered with Marithe+François Girbaud.

Seeds of Peace annonce un partenariat avec Marithé+François Girbaud

Marithé + François Girbaud a récemment dénoncé la guerre. Cette approche n’était pas opportuniste mais s’inscrivait dans une stratégie à long terme tournée vers l’adulte conscient de l’actualité et de l’avenir de la planète.

Aujourd’hui ils parlent de reconstruction, d’ouverture, de partage et d’échange avec une communication qui parle aux plus raisonnables, aux enfants de demain qui vont grandir dans un monde de plus en plus

“OPEN SPACE”

Cette stratégie s’inscrit dans la communication médias et hors médias, les magasins et sur internet. Shooting Eté 2007 : une dizaine de jeunes d’origines ou de nationalités israélienne, libanaise, pakistanaise, sri-lankaise, rwandaise, ivoirienne, tibétaine, etc… s’est réunie aux studios d’Aubervilliers pour donner vie au discours de la marque et mettre en scène les vêtements de demain, ceux qu’ils ont envie de porter aujourd’hui et dans leur futur proche d’adulte. Ils sont l’espoir pour avancer vers d’autres lendemains et se doivent de donner une belle représentation de l’avenir. Ils sèment les graines de la paix sous l’objectif de Jackie Nickerson*.

Pour renforcer et donner davantage de profondeur au discours de la marque un rapprochement avec l’Association « Seeds of Peace » (SoP) s’est imposé.

Cette organisation créée en 1993 par le journaliste américain John Wallach, soutenue par des personnalités comme Bill Clinton, Noor de Jordanie ou Shimon Perès a mis en place un processus pour insuffler des graines de paix dans le cœur d’adolescents vivant dans des pays essentiellement du Moyen Orient en conflit depuis leur naissance. Etablir un dialogue et démontrer que les jeunes de tous les pays sont nourris par les mêmes aspirations avec une volonté de s’épanouir et de construire les fondations d’une vie à venir dans la paix, tel est l’objectif de SoP.

Marithé + François Girbaud s’est engagé à soutenir cette démarche, à associer à leur communication SoP, à mettre leur talent au service de l’association en créant les outils de merchandising. SoP sera présent sur des événements organisés dans les points de vente de New-York, Paris et Tokyo et s’intégrera naturellement dans les campagnes futures.

* Jackie Nickerson, une anglo/américaine née à Boston mais habitant à Londres. 5 ans d’expérience dans l’univers de la mode pour ensuite travailler sur ses propres projets (en 2002 sort le livre « Farm » qui montre des agriculteurs d’Afrique du Sud dans toute leur beauté). Elle collabore régulièrement avec le New York Times et pour la 3ème fois avec Marithé et François Girbaud.

Seeds of Peace annonce un partenariat avec Marithé+François Girbaud, la marque de vêtements mondialement connue.

En Février 2007, Marithé+François Girbaud lancera une campagne publicitaire sur laquelle figurera le logo de Seeds of Peace. Cette campagne, qui représente près d’un million de dollars d’investissement, paraîtra dans des magazines tels que Vogue, Elle, Marie-Claire, Glamour et Vanity Fair, et sera vue par environ 9 million de lecteurs en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, en Grande Bretagne et au Japon.

La campagne publicitaire figurera également sous forme de panneaux d’affichage dans des lieux très fréquentés au coeur des grandes capitales d’Europe et d’Asie. Ce partenariat a été annoncé lors de conferences de presse à Milan et Paris en Décembre 2006. Ci-dessous, le communique de presse, ainsi que quelques articles déjà parus. De plus, Marithé+François Girbaud créera une ligne de vêtements spécialement concue pour Seeds of Peace. Cette gamme sera vendue en exclusivité sur notre site internet, avec 100% des ventes revenant à Seeds of Peace. Cette campagne marque le début d’un partenariat à long terme entre Seeds of Peace et Marithé+François Girbaud.

Dossier de Presse, Conference de Presse des 18 et 19 Dec 2006 »

Marketing multietnico per M+FG

La comunicazione di Marithé+François Girbaud si schiera contro i pregiudizi. La nuova campagna che debutterà a fine gennaio in tutta Europa per un investimento pari a 600 mila euro, è stata realizzata in collaborazione con Seeds of Peace. L’associazione Semi di pace nata nel 1993 ha lo scopo di far crescere le nuove generazioni nel rispetto reciproco e della tolleranza, organizzando campi estivi a cui partecipano giovani di paesi a rischio di guerra come Palestina, Libano, Israele, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Costa D’Avorio.

La pubblicita ha per soggetto ragazzi di diverse nazionalità che corrono in mezzo si campi come a rappresentare i frutti di un seme cresciuto senza pregiudizi, spiega lo stilista François Girbaud noto anche per la campagna delle modelle che evocano il dipinto dell‘Ultima cena di Leonardo. Spot condannato che però ha chiuso la faccenda giudiziaria vincendo il ricorso in Cassazione.

In futuro, spiega il direttore marketing Muriel De Lamarzelle, vogliamo veicolare la strategia di comunicazione e marketing in più direzioni per colpire diversi target: la comunità del fashion, gli opinion maker del settore del lusso e del design. Inoltre sempre a partire dalla fine di gennaio, è al vaglio l’ipotesi di realizzare un cd con 15 canzoni in partnership con la case discografica Emi. Una raccolta che contiene musica proveniente da culture di diversi paesi e che riflette la filosofia multietnica e cosmopolita della marca. Tra le altre attività prosegue la collaborazione con il Rallye des Gazelles, dedicato alle donne. M+FG è partner fornendo l’abbigliamento. Il Rally è in evento in cui il brand francese partecipa da sei anni e in futuro la volontà è di accrescere gli investimenti.

Seeds of Peace camp plants seed of hope
CNN

Jul 19, 2002 / No Comments

OTISFIELD, MAINE | As two teen-agers—one Israeli, one Palestinian—head home this week from summer camp, they’ll be taking more than the memories of a new, unlikely friendship.

They’ll also take with them an expanded perspective on the conflict in their region, after spending three weeks at the Seeds of Peace International Camp for Conflict Resolution in Otisfield, Maine.

Bunk mates Sharon Koren, a 15-year-old Israeli from Haifa and Amani Zuaiter, a 14-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem, both arrived at camp June 24 at the encouragement of their families with an open mind, ready to get to know other teens they normally would never meet.

“My goal is to be as understanding as I can, to be open to hear the other side and respect everyone,” Koren said. “Everyone wants peace and it will be hard, but I think we are going to make peace.”

For them—and for 100 other campers there from the Middle East—the conflict hit uncomfortably close to home.

“I know people that have died,” Zuaiter said. “We live in Jerusalem. We live safely. But we hear the news and everything, and sometimes we don’t go to school because of the situation.”

Koren said terror attacks have greatly affected her life, even though none of her family members has been killed.

“I have family in Jerusalem. So, after every terror attack, we get on the phone quickly to see if everything is OK,” Koren said. “I didn’t go to a mall for a year; it changes your life, and we are so much more careful now.”

Tension heightened in 2000

According to Kymberlie Charles, who has been a counselor at the camp for six years, the camp’s atmosphere changed in 2000, the summer before the second intifada started.

“Camp became intense in a different way,” she said. “The kids were coming from a place where there was a heightened sense of frustration.”

Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit, non-political organization, has hosted camps for 10 years, combining sports and activities with conflict resolution sessions. Campers from regions of conflict are encouraged to learn to respect each other and work together.

“The Israeli girls are friendly with me; I don’t feel like what it’s like in Palestine,” Zuaiter said. “Maybe because here everyone has the feeling that we are going to do something to improve the situation.”

Screaming eventually subsided

Peaceful discussions replaced screaming disagreements as the group sessions progressed. Of the 165 teens in attendance, 50 were Israelis and 25 were Palestinians. Other campers attended from Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States.

“Some sessions were very, very hard, one even about the Holocaust,” Koren said. “But something happened between the 8th and 12th session. We had an understanding, and you could see the change.

“Before we were just screaming and yelling at each other. And at the end there was no screaming, no yelling, just people who respect each other, and it was amazing,” she said.

Zuaiter was surprised by the animosity during the early sessions.

“What I thought was that everyone would be peaceful and look for a solution, but we shouted a lot,” she said. “Most of the time when we shouted the facilitators told us that [we] had to respect each other, even if we didn’t agree.”

Charles noticed changes in both Zuaiter and Koren during the session.

“I observed them becoming very articulate and really being very interested in expressing themselves,” she said. “I think they left feeling like they were empowered to actually talk about their experience and to talk about what it means to coexist and what that process is.”

Campers reflect on change

The campers culminated their camp session on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where they met with members of Congress and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Despite their homesickness, Koren and Zuaiter said the time passed quickly and they would miss camp very much.

“I think that I will miss most the quiet environment where no one will hurt you, no one will do you wrong. And, everyone inside wants peace and the same thing,” Koren said.

Charles hopes that both girls will take their camp experience and the emphasis on respecting others that they learned this summer back home with them.

Both Koren and Zuaiter hope to keep in touch with their new friends, but admit it may be tough. They also worry what their friends will think.

“You don’t know how much I’ve changed in the past few weeks. I didn’t expect to become such good friends with [Zuaiter], but we did,” Koren said. “But I don’t think I’m going to share everything with [my friends at home,] because they didn’t really support me in the first place,” Koren said.

“I don’t regret that I came,” Zuaiter said. “I wanted to come and see the others’ opinions. I don’t know what my friends’ reaction will be back home. You can’t know.”

Read Stephanie Morris’ article at CNN »

VIDEO: Maine camp brings Israelis, Palestinians together
Boston Herald

Aug 10, 2014 / Comments Off

As warfare continues in the Gaza strip, Israeli and Palestinian teens at camp in Maine struggle to find common ground.

Israeli and Palestinian kids coming face-to-face at a camp in Maine are finding ways to bridge a divide that has again cast their war-torn homelands into chaos as the international community looks to their leaders to follow suit and forge a peace agreement that will end the bloodshed.

“I just knew the other side as being people with guns, people who ban me from traveling, people who destroy my father’s land, people who kill us and torture us,” said a 17-year-old Palestinian named Salma, who lives in Gaza. “I realized that some of them are capable of being changed, and some of them just have this thing that makes me feel OK talking to them.”

Seeds of Peace Camp in Otisfield, Maine, brings together teens from international conflict zones using games, group activities and open dialogue in the hopes that putting a human face to their enemies will change the way they look at the war.

The monthlong battle raging in Gaza has made this summer’s session particularly tense for the 182 campers, more than half of whom are Israeli and Palestinian, who are looking to find common ground, Associate Director Wil Smith said.

“One of the best things about camp is when you see two kids who are adamantly opposed to each other in the beginning and as camp goes on you see them wander off two by two and you know by their hand movements that they’re having a pretty intense discussion around the conflict and they’ve gotten to a point where they’re ready to hear each other,” Smith said.

To force them to interact, campers at Seeds of Peace are assigned to mixed cabins and lunch tables. They’re required to speak English and political discussion is restricted to daily 90-minute facilitated sessions, where things can get heated.

“I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience that you can listen to the other side’s stories and you can also represent your own opinions,” said Omri, a 15-year-old Israeli. “How can you be friends with people who want you to die and support organizations that want you to die? Nobody wants armies. Nobody wants checkpoints. Nobody wants borders, but this is what reality has made us do.”

Ophir, 17, an Israeli, said she made her first Palestinian friends at camp and admitted that she “didn’t have a clear point of view” on Palestinians before she arrived.

“I didn’t really have hatred toward them and I was really open-minded and really wanted to hear and learn more,” she said. “They tell their own personal stories … There was this tough story of a father of one of my dialogue group. He was in the Israeli prison for like 14 years … It was very hard to hear that.”

“When I came to camp, I was really shocked to see what they have to say and the amount of anger they have toward Israelis,” Ophir said. “It was really tough at the beginning for me to hear ‘genocide’ or things like that. For me, it’s really hard to hear this comparison, because my grandfather was in the Holocaust. So, to hear the word ‘genocide’ compared to the situation in Gaza was just really overwhelming.”

Smith said some may never warm up to the other side, and that’s OK, because the memories will linger and at least they’ve had the chance to share their feelings and hear the same from the other side.

“It’s those informal moments that create the relationships that ultimately allow them to be heard by one another,” he said.

Read Prisca Pointdujour’s story at the Boston Herald ››

Emotions run high at Seeds of Peace camp in Maine amid Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Bangor Daily News

Aug 9, 2014 / No Comments

OTISFIELD, Maine — As young campers emerged from cabins on Thursday morning, some were holding each other crying, while others laughed and sang songs. Emotions have run high during this session of Seeds of Peace, a camp that brings teenagers from opposing sides of conflict zones around the world to the Maine woods for three weeks each summer.

The campers, about 180 of them, come from the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. They also come from warring neighbors Israel and Palestine.

The more somber campers had just finished what is referred to as “dialogue,” an hour and 45 minute-long session where the children converse with their peers from the countries they are in conflict with. The conversations are guided by trained adult facilitators.

The youngsters are grouped by region, with American students in each group. Some sessions are made up of Indian, Pakistani, Afghan and American campers, and the others are Palestinian, Israeli, Egyptian, Jordanian and American.

“Sometimes you’re yelled at,” said Ophir, 17, a camper from Israel who is in her second summer at Seeds of Peace. Camp staff requested that campers last names not be used for security reasons.

“It’s not really comfortable or fun. But they work on how to separate the person from his or her point of view,” she said of the facilitators. “I want to emphasize that this is a really long process.”

The process of thinking about the other campers as individuals rather than the “other side” is always challenging, but this summer, the war between Israeli and Palestinian forces has made it more so, counselors said.

“The kids and the adults are coming way more charged up,” said Sarah Brajtbord, the assistant camp director and U.S. based programs director. “Feelings are intensified. Their reasons for coming here are much deeper and more personal.”

The monthlong conflict has left about 1,800 Palestinians and 68 Israelis dead, and whole neighborhoods in Gaza destroyed, according to Reuters. A ceasefire that started Tuesday ended Friday when Palestinian rockets were fired at Israel and Israel retaliated.

Counselors pin news updates to a bulletin board twice per day so campers, who do not have cellphones, can stay informed about events from home. Articles that are printed in Arabic or Hebrew are translated into English so all information is accessible to everyone. Campers call home regularly to check on family members, Brajtbord said.

“No, it’s not the same,” counselor Eias Kahatib said of this summer. The Palestinian, who lives in Jerusalem, was a camper as a teen in 2004 and 2005 and is working here for his second summer.

“For campers, they used to come to camp having read about war,” he said. “They’d remember numbers, dates, numbers of deaths. This time they didn’t have to do that. They came with full anger. They knew everything. No one told them, no one brainwashed them. They saw everything before their eyes. That’s what makes this session different. There’s a lot of hate.”

Kahatib said changes take place slowly.

“I looked around and saw the lake, it’s all green and it’s summer, a big soccer field,” he said Thursday, referring to the first time he arrived at the lush campus on Pleasant Lake. All his life he’d lived in a conflict zone, and the tranquility at the camp was new to him.

“For a second you forget where you’re from,” he said. “But as soon as you see the face of the other side, you remember. Bam. In four years, you’re going to be solider.”

Kahatib said the point of the dialogues was not necessarily to find resolution.

“I wanted to meet that enemy that I always run away from,” he said of his decision to attend the camp. “I wanted to tell him about my suffering. I consider myself as on the weak side as a Palestinian. I became the strong side; my voice was heard.”

Despite initial distrust, Kahatib has close friendships with Israeli counselors, who he hangs out with in Jerusalem, and he said he’s particularly popular with the Israeli campers, which he attributes to his open mindedness.

“You’re funny, I like you. You’re going to be cocky, I’m like, dude, we’re at summer camp,” he said, recounting what he says to campers. “But they take a step back when they hear I’m Palestinian.”

Another feeling that is heightened this year is guilt, said Sarah Rubin, assistant camp director, who also is a teacher at Gorham Middle School.

“Somebody could say, you’re having fun while people are dying here. You’re not truly part of our side anymore,” she said. Campers are playing basketball, canoeing and sleeping next to people who are supposed to be their enemies, she explained.

Ophir, the camper from Israel, said her experience has been greeted with mixed emotions by people back home in Israel.

She said she was once told by someone who runs an organization she participates in at home that he disapproves of Seeds of Peace because it makes Israelis naive.

“I was like, wow if this is the reaction, how can I spread the message?” she said.

But spreading the message also is part of the point.

“Seeds provides hope for the rest of the world when there is absolutely no hope,” said Valerie, 17, of Chicago. “If you say that’s just how it is, it’s going to become a reality. The only way to make it not a reality is to not accept that.”

The fact that the camp takes place in Maine also is important, particularly for the counselors and campers who are from the state.

“Maine is the whitest state,” said Jake Lachance, a counselor and former camper from Windham. “Over time it’s becoming more and more diverse. To be honest, some people don’t know how to handle and approach that. What our program tries to do is to open people up to diversity.”

During the first half of the summer, Seeds of Peace hosted children from 14 Maine high schools. The idea during that program is to bring together first generation Americans with Mainers whose families have been here for decades.

Seeds of Peace first began hosting international campers in Otisfield in 1993, while the program for Maine students began in 2000.

The mission is similar for both sessions, staff said.

“Kids will be kids,” said Lachance. “They’re willing to learn and can still come to conclusions on their own. Here they learn that the other side really does have a face, a name, a favorite sport, a family.”

Read Nell Gluckman’s story at the Bangor Daily News ››

Seeds of Peace organizes cross-border workshops for Middle East educators

Nov 23, 2009 / No Comments

USAID

JERUSALEM | Since September 2007, Seeds of Peace has organized two cross-border workshops per year for Palestinian and Israeli educators. These workshops are part of the USAID-funded set of Seeds of Peace initiatives, “Promoting Peace Education & Dialogue in Israeli & Palestinian Centers of Learning.” Workshops have taken place in the deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan, in Tiberius, and in Neve Ilan, outside of Jerusalem.

Workshops, which last three days, focus on various aspects of peace education—on the process of facilitation, on human rights education, on the role of the media in the conflict, on the best practices of participants. The workshops provide a rare opportunity for Palestinian and Israeli educators to share their experiences, their reflections, their best practices. The workshops are open to all Seeds of Peace educators—Delegation Leaders, participants in USAID-funded workshops for educators, graduates of the Seeds of Peace facilitation course. These workshops strengthen and enlarge the circle of cross-border educators working for the mission of Seeds of Peace. In the early part of 2009, these workshops were postponed because of the Gaza War.

In June 2009, a remarkable group of Palestinian & Israeli educators gathered in Tiberius to meet for the first time since the War. They traveled from Jenin and from Haifa, from Ramallah and from Tel Aviv, from Hebron and from Eilat, to participate in a workshop and to meet friends and colleagues from the other side. The Palestinian and Israeli participants helped to organize this event. They could not agree on a topic, so Seeds of Peace used the process of “Open Space” to meet the wide range of needs, to focus on what bubbled up from the participants. For a detailed look at what was accomplished at this event, see the Summer 2009 issue of The Olive Branch Teacher’s Guide or this booklet created by the workshop participants.

Karen, a teacher from Tulkarem said the following about the Tiberius Workshop:
“After a very disheartening period in the conflict, the Tiberius cross-border seminar refreshed my spirit and renewed my commitment toward improving cross-border understanding and communication. To finally experience a face to face meeting with people whom I share similar thoughts, concerns and interests with gave me the fortitude to carry-on with my work. Moreover, these similarities made me feel welcomed, appreciated and empowered in this gathering.”