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VIDEO: Former Celt praises Seeds of Peace campers
WMTW (ABC/Portland)

Aug 8, 2014 / No Comments

Visit part of NBA day

NBA players, including the Boston Celtics’ Marcus Smart and former player Brian Scalabrine, paid a visit to Seeds of Peace camp on Friday.

More than 180 campers from around the world attended the NBA Day event. More than half of the campers are Israeli or Palestinian.

One goal of Seeds of Peace is to have an open dialogue between youth from around the world.

Scalabrine, who is now working as a basketball analyst, has visited the camp before, but he says this year is different.

“What we provide is basically an opportunity for them to have fun for a day and get away from the idea that back in their country there’s a war going on, and we’re not saying that we’re trying to ignore that. What we are saying is that it’s OK to have fun for a day, and here as NBA players, we can be here supporting you and admiring your courage,” Scalabrine said.

Read Mike Reagan’s story at WMTW.com ››

VIDEO: Seeds of Peace camp connects teens from all walks of life
WGME (CBS/Portland)

Jul 10, 2016 / No Comments

OTISFIELD (WGME) For 24 years, hundreds of teens from around the world converge on a camp in rural Maine on a mission to find peace among their nations …

178 campers, once divided by conflict, link together.

“Everyone is equal,” Elizabeth a camper from Palestine said. “We all wear the same shirts, we all sing the same song and we sleep in the same places.”

Teens from all walks of life meet friends they once called enemies.

“I met a girl from the “other side” and she has the same favorite movie as me,” Elizabeth said. “You discover that they’re not actually what you we’re raised to think they are. They’re not like monsters or enemies, they’re actually humans.”

Israelis working with Palestinians. Their flags flying side by side.

“I don’t think there’s another place in this world where those two flags would fly next to each other,” Sarah Brajtbord with Seeds of Peace said.

Finding peace in a world with so much conflict is the ultimate goal at Seeds of Peace.

“While those national identities are apart of who we are and who are campers are it’s also about getting to know the person underneath those identities and those labels,” Brajtbord said.

Through dialogue and conflict, these teens build relationships they never thought they could have.

“One of the reasons why we bring our campers to Maine is so they have a safe space,” Brajtbord said. “So they are able to learn and connect with one another which doesn’t translate for a lot of our campers when they go back home.”

Read Daniel Lampariello’s report at WGME.com ››

OPINION: Young people are showing up for democracy
CNN

Nov 15, 2018 / No Comments

As seen on CNN on November 15, 2018

George J. Mitchell is a former US senator and Senate majority leader. A Democrat, he has served as the US special envoy for Middle East peace, the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, and US special envoy for Northern Ireland. He is on the advisory board of Seeds of Peace. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.

Democracy is not for the faint of heart. It is hard work, and it takes time: Sweeping change doesn’t come from any one election.

Leading up to this year’s midterm elections, that’s one reason why so many reporters, pundits and other public figures cast doubt on whether young people would turn out to vote. They cited low youth turnout figures from past elections, and often various negative stereotypes of millennials, asking: Can we really expect change from our young people? Aren’t they just too ignorant, too apathetic, too selfish, too lazy to vote? Are they really up to the task of reshaping our democracy?

With the results of the midterms now in, we have an answer: The skeptics were wrong, and our youth are indeed ready to do the work of democracy. Across the country, young people turned out in numbers dwarfing the last several midterm elections; for many of them, it was their first time voting. Of course, the election results varied widely across the board, and in some cases, their candidate didn’t win. But I have full confidence that these youth have made a lasting, lifelong commitment to engaging in our democracy.

Why am I so confident? Because young people didn’t simply turn out at the behest of their elders, political parties, or other existing institutions run by adults. Rather, they took the lead in changing the political landscape, building their own organizations, amplifying each others’ voices, turning out their peers to vote, and sending our political leaders a powerful message: that hate, racism, and division are not our future, and that a government that looks like and represents the country we live in is.

Just look around the country for examples:

Since the February 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the survivors, who saw 17 of their peers killed, have emerged as the new faces of the gun control movement, starting with the March for Our Lives. On Election Day, they launched a phone bank to get out the youth vote on behalf of candidates who support sensible, widely supported gun control policies. While key races in their home state of Florida didn’t go as hoped (and remain unresolved), there was still much to celebrate, as the youth vote helped defeat dozens of NRA-backed candidates across the country.

In Shorewood, Minnesota, dozens of students walked out of their high school on Election Day; the school was just one of 500 schools across the country to participate in the national Walkout to Vote movement. In each walkout, students held rallies and marched their peers to the polls; whether or not they were old enough to vote, they took a strong, clear stand, telling
those in power that they are the future of the country, and that their voices must be heard.

In North Dakota, Native American communities faced a new voter ID law that heightened their barriers to voting. In response, teens and college students from the Turtle Rock reservation led a march to their polling place, standing up against discriminatory voter suppression with signs and slogans that included “We are the grandchildren of those you couldn’t remove.” One young woman said: “It made us want to go in there and vote twice as much and make a statement.”

The power of young people to effect change is not limited to this election, or to the United States. I’m proud to have facilitated it and learned from it throughout my own career, helping exceptional youth around the world come together in dialogue, overcoming immense social, political and economic divides.

In Northern Ireland, I was one of the organizers of a program that brought Catholic and Protestant youth together for this purpose. I also serve on the advisory board of Seeds of Peace an international organization that does similar work with youth on opposite sides of conflicts between Israel and Palestine, India and Pakistan, and even among youth from different backgrounds here in the United States.

Whether in Lahore, Ramallah, or my home state of Maine (where the Seeds of Peace Camp is based), the organization is inspiring the next generation of leaders worldwide by cultivating the skills they need: empathy, respect, active listening and critical thinking. That’s because progress can only be made through dialogue and constructive engagement across these lines of division, something we sorely need here in America in these polarized times.

Each and every time I meet those who participate in these programs or hear about the exceptional young people who made an enormous difference in the midterm elections, I find myself newly inspired. Just as American youth are defying conventional wisdom about their political participation, these young people elsewhere around the world are wisely defying the pessimism of too many of my generation, who see these conflicts as insurmountable.

It goes without saying that our young people aren’t fully formed leaders. They still have much to learn, and the immense challenges they must confront will take many years to resolve, as the mixed results of this midterm made clear. But even as we work to inspire and educate our youth, we can learn much from the dedication, courage and passion they are already demonstrating, because the change we need will ultimately not come from those already in power.

It will be our youth, the leaders of today and tomorrow, who are transforming our political conversation for the better. They’re off to a strong start.

Read Sen. George Mitchell’s op-ed at CNN.com ››

VIDEO: Making a Difference by setting an example
NBC News

Apr 27, 2007 / No Comments

Wil Smith is a role model for minority students at an elite college in Maine

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BRUNSWICK, MAINE | Starting with 11-year-old daughter Olivia, Wil Smith tries to point young people in the right direction. He’s an assistant dean at Bowdoin College, a small, elite school in Maine that, with Smith’s help, has changed from virtually an all-white campus to a school with nearly a 30 percent minority enrollment.

Smith’s mission is to make sure those students succeed.

“It takes support to remove that self doubt that they belong here,” Smith says.

One reason Smith connects so well with Bowdoin’s students is because he also attended college here — graduated back in 2000 — and those years are where this story really began.

When Smith enrolled at Bowdoin, Olivia was just 2. He was raising her alone, struggling to pay tuition, not eating some days so his daughter could.

He took her to class, to basketball practice. He had no money for day care. Eventually, the Bowdoin community learned their story and helped Smith become the first single dad ever to graduate from the college.

“He gives people like me inspiration, he gives everyone on this campus inspiration,” says student Hassan Mohammed.

Beyond campus, Smith just coached a girl’s high school basketball team to the state championship game. They lost, but players say Smith taught them how to win.

“He’ll always be, like, in the back of my head, come on you can do this, just push a little bit harder, you can go a bit further,” says Morghan McAleney, a student at Catherine McAuley High School.

Summers he spends at Seeds of Peace, a camp where Israeli and Palestinian kids come together, trying to build a peaceful future. And of course, he’s always there for Olivia.

“I think more than anything, young people need to know that the people who love them are going to love them no matter what,” Smith says.

He thinks of himself as a “coach” from a small place, helping young people do big things.

Read and watch Ron Allen’s report on NBC Nightly News »

Scholar: Maine’s Muslim History Goes Way Deeper Than Somali Refugees
MPBN

Jul 18, 2016 / No Comments

As the nation’s attention shifts to the city of Cleveland and the Republican National Convention, the party’s presumptive nominee is adding some new detail to his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country.

In an interview on the CBS news program “60 Minutes,” Donald Trump says he would order what he calls “extreme vetting” of Muslims from territories with a history of terrorist activity.

This is the first in a series of profiles of Muslims who have made Maine their home.

Listen to Maine Seed Abukar Adan’s report at MPBN.com »

Utah virtuoso’s “Concert for Peace” in Salt Lake City to benefit Seeds of Peace

May 15, 2003 / No Comments

SALT LAKE CITY | Gerald Elias, associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony, and local pianist Marjorie Janove will present their third concert to benefit Seeds of Peace, an international organization that seeks to empower the children of war to break the cycle of violence.

The Salt Lake City “Concert for Peace,” which follows the national benefit gala recently held in New York City, will be Saturday, May 31, at 7 p.m., at The Cathedral Church of St. Mark-Episcopal Diocese, 231 E. 100 S. Tickets are $25 for the concert and $35 for both the concert and post-concert reception. Food will be provided by Mazza, which specializes in Middle Eastern cuisine. For more information, or to make advance reservations, call 801-328-5043, or e-mail lbarlow@saltlakechamber.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.

Seeds of Peace offers one-on-one interaction for teenagers from 22 war-ravaged nations at an idyllic lakeside camp in Otisfield, Maine and runs follow up programs through its Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem. Through the creation of open dialogues, team building, group projects and activities and conflict-resolution sessions, the teens—or “seeds of peace”—begin the difficult process of developing the mutual trust, respect and empathy needed to break the cycles of hatred and violence. The organization’s goal is to humanize “the enemy” by breaking down barriers and by building bridges, all in a neutral, safe and supportive environment.

“This year the message of peace is more relevant than ever,” notes Elias, adding that his visit to the Maine camp and observance of the emotional and passionate “coexistence” sessions was a life-changing experience.

Although Seeds of Peace founder John Wallach passed away last year, the organization has been busier than ever. Over the past 12 months 450 teens, representing 22 nations, graduated from Seeds of Peace camps; over 150 Israeli and Palestinian alumni held a reunion through the Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem and ran leadership programs and coexistence dialogue groups; over 100 Seeds of Peace students were on scholarships at U.S. universities; and an Afghanistan program was initiated.

Current Seeds of Peace President Aaron David Miller writes, “No matter how compelling the terms of any agreement or treaty, peace will not be secured without an effort to break down barriers of suspicion and mistrust and create normal relations between people. Indeed, if peacemaking remains the purview of the diplomats alone, it will not succeed.”

Last year’s Salt Lake City Seeds of Peace Concert, played before a capacity audience at Gardner Hall, raised $11,000 in two hours. The 2002 event featured music by Tartini, Gershwin, Chopin, Deberiot and Strauss. This year’s concert, part of a larger community outreach effort, will surprise music lovers, as the evening’s program will not be announced in advance. “We are calling this a command performance,” notes Lizzie Barlow, one of the event coordinators.

Commenting on why he and Janove have decided to keep the program a secret, Elias explains, “We want the audience to be even more excited about the music when they hear some of their old favorites—and some soon-to-be favorites—pop out of our hats.”

Two representatives from the national organization of Seeds of Peace, Amy Baroch, senior event coordinator, and George Atallah, development associate, will attend the concert and will accompany two Seeds of Peace alumni. They are Malvina Goldfeld, a 21-year-old Israeli who is a sophomore at Princeton, and Mohammed Matar, a 17-year-old Palestinian from Gaza who, through a scholarship, is finishing his senior year at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts.

“This year our goal is to be able to send six teenagers to the Seeds of Peace camp, which costs $2,500 per student,” notes Barlow, adding that the national organization is funded through individual donors, foundation and federal grants, and corporate giving. “We hope to raise $16,000 through this event, with $9,000 of that donated outside of ticket sales.”

Deseret News music critic Ed Reichel has called Elias “an exceptionally talented and sublime musician” and Janove “a marvelous pianist and first-class accompanist.”

To schedule an interview, contact Ann Bardsley at 801-466-1127 or at annjb@xmission.com. Photos available upon request.

Seeds of Peace was founded in 1993 by award-winning author and journalist John Wallach. Foreign Editor of the Hearst Newspapers for 25 years, Wallach covered many regions of war and terrorism, including the Middle East. After the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, Wallach decided to reach out to the children of war and terror to find and nurture hope. Wallach created the organization to provide an opportunity for these children to plant the seeds for a more secure future. In its first year, the Seeds of Peace International Camp brought 45 youngsters from Israel, Palestine and Egypt to live together side by side.

Now, more than a decade later, almost 2,000 teenagers from the Middle East, the Balkans, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, India and Pakistan and the United States have graduated from the Seeds of Peace International Camp. In 2002, 12 Afghan youths attended the program. Seeds of Peace has created a variety of follow-up initiatives worldwide, including the Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem, which offers year-round activities for Seeds of Peace alumni to sustain their relationships and commitment to coexistence.

Seeds of Peace has achieved broad-based international recognition as a “best methods” conflict resolution program and has been featured on 60 Minutes, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Today Show and on CNN, PBS and NPR. Seeds of Peace received the UNESCO Peace Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Nonviolence in 2000.

Gerald Elias, associate concertmaster of the Utah Symphony since 1988, first violinist of the Abramyan String Quartet and a faculty member of the University of Utah, has performed in Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as well as in the United States. He has composed many works including “Conversations With Essie,” which was performed at the 2002 Moab Music Festival. He has been commissioned by the Utah Symphony to compose a piece for its chamber orchestra series in 2004. Elias is also the author of the mystery novel Devil’s Trill.

Marjorie Janove is an active soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Utah Symphony, NOVA Chamber Music Series, Temple Square Concert Series, the Vivaldi Candlelight Concert Series, the Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Composer Series and the Madeline Festival of the Arts and Humanities Series. She completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree with distinction in piano performance at Indiana University, where she studied with Karen Shaw and Menachem Pressler and where she taught as an associate instructor.

ADDRESS: 231 E 100 Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
DATE: May 31, 2003
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
LOCATION: The Cathedral Church of St. Mark-Episcopal Diocese
CONTACT: lbarlow@saltlakechamber.org

May 21, 2013 | 20th Anniversary Dinner (New York)

May 21, 2013 / No Comments

Please join us in celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Seeds of Peace with Senator George Mitchell and honoring Janet Wallach.

ADDRESS: 583 Park Avenue, New York, NY
DATE: May 21, 2013
TIME: 6:30 p.m. – Cocktails | 7:30 p.m. – Dinner
LOCATION: 583 Park Avenue
WEBSITE: 583parkave.com
CONTACT: Georgia Etheridge | getheridge@seedsofpeace.org

VIDEO: Seeds of Peace shifts focus to unrest in U.S.
WCSH (NBC/Portland)

Sep 7, 2016 / No Comments

OTISFIELD, Maine | A pilot program at Seeds of Peace summer camp came at the exact right time to deal with unrest in the United States this summer.

The program has already been used in Maine for the last 16 years, but this year the camp decided to hold a week long session with students from Maine, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago. The second year campers participate in closed dialogue sessions every day for 110 minutes where they discuss a wide range of issues facing the country.

“It helps you to understand like different perspectives about different people and also it helps you to like know about yourself more,” said second year camper Amy Umutoni.

Seeds of Peace was started in 1993 with just Israeli and Palestinian teenagers taking part, but has a much farther reach today. The sessions with daily dialogues consisted of 123 campers, with around 80 being from Maine. Leslie Lewin, Executive Director at Seeds of Peace, is hoping that the week long session will give kids a chance to find their voice while understanding those who have a difference of opinion.

“Meant to give young people an opportunity to engage one another and tackle together some of the most divisive issues facing us right now. Race, gender, economic disparity, educational disparity,” said Lewin.

For more information about Seeds of Peace, click here.

Watch the video at WCSH6.com ››