I stopped taking their calls. They talked sense in camp, but now they talk nonsense. Seeds wasn't reality, it was just words. Now I see the truth. Seeds of Peace was founded by American journalist and author John Wallach in 1993 and has since hosted 1,200 students between the ages of 14 and 17 at summer camps held in Maine.
Seeds is funded by the U.S. government and private donors.
The governments of participating nations select delegations of students, which have included both the elites of Arab and Israeli society and teenagers from Jewish settlements and Palestinian refugee camps. They have taken it harder as a group and have been caught off-guard. The longer the fighting goes on, Shapiro said, the harder it will be for the teens to maintain their links, though he hopes the program will hold trauma counseling if and when the violence ends. People in their communities so easily fell into the old thought patterns. Israelis and Palestinians who participated in coexistence groups have been taunted, even threatened, within their own societies for consorting with the enemy.