It is for this reason that the German NGO Peace Counts began three years ago. To give greater visibility to these men and women of goodwill who are working in their corner. A corner which takes place necessarily a tragedy, war, poverty, violence… often three block. Created by journalists, the NGO has initiated a project supported by UNESCO and the German Foreign Ministry. Eight reporters and five photographers have traveled 60,000 kilometers on five continents to observe extol the virtues of pacifism act every day in 25 conflict zones. A book is born of this adventure, The Peacemakers, which finally gives a face to these humanists discreet. .

This is another successful strategy of peaceful and constructive exchange Pastor Benedikt Lindemann has opted to reduce somewhat the multiple fractures that separate Palestinians from Israelis. His credo: meet in person the people of both states, religions carry a priori as incompatible as oil and water. The German pastor, assisted by his Benedictine monks chose the work on the gray matter to take to reverse centuries of hateful prejudices. What gives these men and women – some victims of suicide bombings, others looted by illegal colonization of their land – it is little and a lot: a neutral space – that of a cloister – a Swiss Full Jerusalem where one learns to know and behind the antagonism, to listen to others, where we also encourage learning objective history, and any initiative to facilitate comparisons. Each year, the Reverend and symbolic rewards a Jew and a Muslim for the forces they were both thrown into the battle of peace.

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