Peace it Together Society
Empowering youth to promote peace through dialogue, filmmaking, and multimedia.
Our Vision
Our vision is to build a culture of creative leaders inspiring and educating others to work toward peace. It is unreasonable to expect youth to come to a peaceful resolution to a regional conflict if they are growing up in an environment of fear, anger, and alienation. Our programs are designed specifically to overcome these hurdles, while at the same time giving youth educational tools to disseminate to wider audiences, and facilitating their transition to community leaders.
We are currently focusing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As our organization grows we will expand our work to address the needs of other domestic and international clashes and tensions.
Why Films?
In order to create films together, youth have to make deep inquiries about what is important to each other and give up some of their own ideas. Here is what past participants have said about the filmmaking process:
- "It forces everyone to work together because the end result is in everyone's best interest."
- "We had to make real choices that everyone had to agree on."
- "We had to confront real life implications and issues."
Peace it Together 2008