Peacecamp 2007

participants of peacecamp 2007 were asked AFTER the peacecamp to relate to the following 4 questions:

We are trying to understand how young people imagine peace.
Please answer briefly (in one or two sentences) each of the following questions (give only your personal opinion);
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
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Arab participants:
1. Jousef
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to our world?
I think that if we love and respect each other we can get more peace, and another thing I think the activities and the music can help.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
I think that the main obstacles to peace in our world are:
wars, cold war, the different interests between countries.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I always encourage my friends to know more about the different civilizations and to make new relationships with another people.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I want to set up a place for meeting people from different cultures.
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2. Narmin

1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
More happiness and quiet for our life and the love will increase more and more....will live in more security and comfortable

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
less security, non acceptable the other's opinion, hating, don't live together in the same circumstances, less knowledge more about the other's culture, habbits, afiliation, rasial, war, occupation

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
participate in more than one course that work to aware, in camps like peace camp, and i am member in the arab association for human rights.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
to let the others think and to be convincen
in what they want and believe, to motivate the others to know about defferent people from them
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3. Ayah
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
equality, knowledge about each communities, more happiness, caring between each other, security and less porness

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
porness, discremination, rasist

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
encouraging my friends to build friendships with jewish people and they are best friends now so i think that it's a great achievement

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
organizing peacecamps between Arabs and jewish boys and girls
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4. Rawan
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
sure we can bring safe and love, good treatment with each other

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
the polatics persons goals, polatic

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I write some things about peace and I joined to many politic groups and organizations

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I will stay in this organization and I will publish my own idea and opinion around my country and the world
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5. Lyali

1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
Relationships very important to bring peace, because after building relationships you realize that it is so easy to imagine peace , so you can live peace. and i think "peacecamp" brings peace

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
poorness, less knowledge. the war. misunderstanding. interests, disagreement

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
respect each other (our society) and to participate in many activities in this domain between Arabs and Jewish

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
to have a good relationsip with other sides (to be friends) and to try to let the others in our society understand that peace is easy and beautiful, and we can make peace...
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6. Amer
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
making more peacecamps to make their members more involved and have relationships between them without raisism

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
the politics men and their running after interests without caring to others feelings and to the society in their country.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i had been in peacecamp in germany with jewish and arab persons

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
to make more peacecamps and to careful for achieve imagine peace with mixing gorups by several nationalities
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7. Naser
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
peace of course can bring more love between countries and develop the ralationships between countries

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
i think the racisim is make the conflict between countries,

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
to make organisations to care about peace

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
noting
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8. Borak
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
descremanation expression will be eliminated and rasicm person will flout out. bring more safety and comfortable way to live. the most important thing is people will live in peace without problems.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
being stupid people who lack of knowledge and think in disagreement, misunderstanding and other reasons. but the most obstacle is the trust. being you without selfconfidence is person without peace.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?

nothing almost, because the environment won't let us, but our culture and religion help us to deal with the others without promoting peace.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
to have an organization with some .. members... to help me promoting peace immedaitly and clearly
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Austrian participants
1. Timar
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
PEACECAMP!! equality of all the people. Uniting nations and people for ex. USA. EU

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
Wars, misunderstandings, lack of knowledge, different experiences, prejudices.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
participated in peacecamp

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
help companies and organisations like peacecamp
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2. Maria
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
Understanding what people want and need and how they live. knowledge, throwing away prejudices and learning that they don't exist.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
lack of knowledge of other cultures, prejudices

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I attended peacecamp and always try to erase stereotypes out of my head

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?

share my knowledge of what i learned on the peacecamp 2007
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3. Junita

1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
communication, cooperation, comprommission


2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
I consider that lack of knowledge, communication, missunderstanding and maybe stereotypes are obstacles to lead peace to the world


3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
myself nothing, but i participated in the peacecamp to try to understand and comprehend matters.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
To arrange more peacecamps
and try to motivate the youth to spread our the peace.
Maybe raise a foundation to promote peace. To make peace happen, it is impossible if one person tries to change the world, but a group of people can fight for peace.
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5. Lucas
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
Intercultural conversation


2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
lack of knowledge

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I participated in peacecamp 2007
4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?

gaining knowledge
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6. Lisa
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
More understanding for the "enemy"

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
the stereotypes and politicians who make the wrong decisions


3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I participated at a peacecamp

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
support evelin so she can organize many more peacecamps
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Hungarian group
1. evelin
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
the people (esp. young people) should know what does mean the war the world without peace :(

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
the people don't know what does mean the war, the children learn prejudice, violence :(

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
firstly i have come here :))

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I will march for the peace with torch (do a peace symbol with others) and i will teach to my children how can they live in peace. and i will advertising lucas' national sign of peace :))
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3. Gabor
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
understanding other's feelings and problems
not having prejudice or any kind of stereotypes.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
when politicians misunderstand each other

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i participated at a peacecamp

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
tell other people about peace and about war. so they know that living in peace is much better
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4. Niki
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
if you join to camps for example, student change programs, if all weapons are missed from the world. if you more talk about your problems. if you stay more patient.
2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
if you feel misunderstand to somebody. if you don't talk about your problems, you'll be angry and the peace can't be maintained. people first use the weapon than talk.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?

i helped somebody from another country, but i didn't know him/her. i participated in peacecamp, change student program.


4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I'll kind, nice with peole, if don't know him/her. i'll participate in camps. i try to understand why people act the way they do.
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5. Viktor
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
I think that life without any war can bring more peace to our world. life without prejudices can also bring peace.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
there are a lot of wars in the world, the people have stereotypes about other people, the differences between poor and rich people is also an obstacle.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i was in a student exchanged program in belgium; with my family i was also in turkey, in spain, in italy, so i knew different cultures and liefestyles. i was in the peacecamp to :) (which was a great experience to me)

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I will be able to teach people to the peaceful life. i will be able to tell to people that the prejudices are wrong and living in peace is not impossible.
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6. Dora
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
peoplecould pay more attention to the others.
weshould clear all the stereotypes because these are the main obstacles of peace.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
misunderstanding and the stereotypes.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i was in the peacecamp :-)
I participated in a thing called "peacesign" in Budapest. it's an organisation against violence.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
i may give lectures of arabic and jewish culture and about their feelings and problems with each other to my classmates and try to make them more understanding with other cultures.
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7. Kinga
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
people would take care more of each other

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
people just interested in ourselves

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i participated in the peacecamp

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
make a big peace camp :))
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8. noémi
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
if big governments are not want to exploit people, it can bring more peace. if such person lead a country, who's got brain and doesn't want just money...

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
the main obstacles are: money, selfishness and stealing ministers.
everybody wants just money, and can do everything for it ;(

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i accept people from other country, culture etc. I don't have any prejudices and .. i've been to this camp ;))

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
i will advertise the national sign of peace (lucas' hand motion ;))
and i will advertise the peacecamp!!! ;))))
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Jewish-Israeli group
1. Assaf

1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
I think that cooperation between both sides in other subjects, patience and understanding will help us to develop more cooperation in otehr levels and in the end will help to the peace in the world.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
i think the main obstacles are misunderstanding and uncoopearation in other subjects. i also think that if people will compromize and understand each other and will be more activities in peace organisations or discussions it will be the end of stigmas and misunderstandings.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i've been in peacecamp and listened to the other sides, their feelings and opinions, and what they think about the situation and i think that in the future it will help me to be more effective about other people, my friends etc.


4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
i am sure that in will continue to change my friends' opinions and stigmas, as in did until now. before i came to peacecamp i thought that he will give me the tools to change something, and help in new ways, but he didn't-
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2. >AMIR
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
PEOPLE SHOULD THINK AND TALK WITH EACH OTHER BEFORE THEY ACT:

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
some peole benefite the situation of war and violence

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I usually act with respect to people of different cultures and religions

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
i think that i can teach people to listen before they act. to give other peole equal rights as i get.
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3. Lotem
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
to respect our enemy and to respect his opinions. you shouldn't think in stereotypes.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
lack of respect to other people.
stereotypes and prejudices.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
i am a member in a youth movement that supports in equality and democratic values. I have been in peacecamp 2007.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I am going to be a leader in the youth movement.
I can transmit the experience and feelings I have had in peacecamp to my family, friends and others.
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4. Ohad
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
Understanding, cooperation, patience, sport, camps and more.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
extrem people. misunderstanding. hate


3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
join guiding children in my settlement

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
break my friends' stereotypes. guiding in my settlement
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5. Lyr

1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
To bring together people from different groups and cultures and help them know each other so they could understand that they are the same.
change the way people think (with the stereeotypes)

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
- the lack of knowledge of peole about other cultures/people
- different languages, countries (states)
- stereotypes

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
- youth movement
- peacecamp
- to learn about other culture and when i be back in Israel I'll share this knowledge.

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
- stop stereotypes
- bring together different cultures
- tell people about the people i met in peacecamp
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6. Segev
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
cooperation between human and understanding each other

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
religions, paradigms, stereotypes, missunderstandings, stigmas

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
being in peacecamp and trying to break stigmas

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
break stigmas, and trying to understanding of people for trying to search for peace.
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7. Shir
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
I think that knowledge and such meetings as this peacecamp will help very much

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
I think that stereotypes and limited knowledge are the main obstacles.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I tried to talk to some of my friends

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
keep taking, organise meetings...
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8.Illy
1. Imagine, what can bring more peace to the world?
If everone changes himself and really want the society to change, and will do things to change the society. religions should stop being the main thing in life.

2. Imagine, what are the main obstacles to peace in our world?
religious fanatics.
thinking to much about the past/history instead of looking forward to the future.

3. Imagine, what have you done so far to promote peace in your own country?
I am active in a youth movement that promotes social equality. I also participated in the organization that is called "children for peace"

4. Imagine, what can you do in the future to promote peace in your own country?
I can go on with the youth movement and "children for peace". I will also try to change people who are close to me and break stereotypes.





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