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Group Promoting Peace Between Israel And Palestine Visits Las Cruces

For nine years, Santa Fe-based Creativity for Peace has sponsored speaking tours that allow its most advanced Young Leaders to share their life experiences and personal journeys as peacemakers with students and adults in high schools, universities, faith communities, and other private and public venues.  The young women are speaking at 7pm Wednesday at Temple Beth-El, 3980 Sonoma Springs Avenue, in Las Cruces.

Creativity for Peace says, “These tours are an opportunity to raise awareness and inspire action and are an important training tool for our young women, who have reached more than 8,000 people in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Oregon.”  

October 2015 speakers include:

  NURAN ABU TABIKH is 18 years old from Jaffa, Israel. Her mother is Palestinian, her grandmother and great-grandmother are from Gaza, and her father is half Jewish. A Creativity for Peace camper in 2012, Nuran chose to be a peacemaker in order to “show how Arabs and Jews can work together despite the conflicts and the hatred.” During summer vacations, she is a young leader in the Arab Jewish Community Center’s camp for Palestinian and Jewish children. In 2013 she took part in a Canadian program called LOVE: Leave Out Violence, in which teams of young people learn to communicate messages of nonviolence. She plans to study medicine. “Peace can be achieved as long as people believe in it,” she says. “Dialogue, patience, and hope are the first steps.”

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Fred Martino interviews JOHANNA GINBAR

    

  JOHANNA GINBAR is 19. She was born in Nazareth and grew up in Kibbutz Harduf in Israel, where she attended the Waldorf School. She has been involved in Creativity for Peace as a camper and Young Leader since 2013 and has volunteered in numerous programs for children from difficult backgrounds in Israel and Switzerland. A cellist, equestrian and fencer, Johanna has worked as a tour guide in her community’s organic farm and as a waitress and bartender. She has decided to postpone her army service for a year in order to work with teenagers from varied backgrounds. 

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Fred Martino interviews SARAH ABU BAKER

  SARAH ABU BAKER is 20, from Nablus, Palestine. She has been involved in Creativity for Peace as a camper and Young Leader since 2013. A student of political science and public administration at Birzeit University in Ramallah, Sara has been involved in many activities to promote the cause of Palestinians. She speaks Turkish and has given interviews on Turkish television.

From Creativity for Peace:

Vision

Creativity for Peace is the leader in preparing young Israeli and Palestinian women to pave the way for peace in their communities and across borders with compassion, courage, and an understanding of the story of the other.

Mission

Creativity for Peace trains young Palestinian and Israeli women to partner as leaders by breaking down barriers of anger and prejudice, facilitating friendships, and inspiring action to promote peace.

Key Programs

Summer camp in New Mexico

Home country gatherings

Young Leader training and support

Young Leader community action

Young Leader peace advocacy and workshops for youth in Israel, Palestine, the United States, and internationally

Accomplishments

We are the only organization simultaneously working with young Palestinian and Israeli women on collaborative leadership and peacemaking.

223 young women have participated in our program since 2003.

Sixty Young Leaders are actively engaged in our work as public speakers, meeting organizers, program advisors, and camp counselors. Many have continuously attended training workshops and gatherings for a decade.

Our young women have made presentations and taught workshops in schools, universities, the army, their communities, and international conferences, including the United Nations and World Economic Forum.