Wednesday, August 18, 2010

can a game of ultimate Frisbee be one little step towards making peace possible?

Image: Ultimate Peace
These young people have found a most practical way to have fun, find camaraderie, and foster understanding by coming together through sports. Ultimate Peace is a summer camp for Israeli and Palestinian kids to meet in a safe location and simply play together, as human beings; not enemies, not rivals.

For so long, it's been the accepted wisdom in much of the world that it's best to raise your kids in a sheltered environment, where they learn only the practices, doctrines, and political convictions of their own local or idealogical community, and spend their formative years spending time only with others who are more or less the same. Such kids as these at Ultimate Peace show us that maybe, there's a much better way to grow.

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