Communication between nations is one of the key factors for world peace, together with respect and understanding. One of the most terrible conflicts known worldwide is between Palestine and Israel, and how these two cannot coexist without segregating themselves into groups. The Palestinian and Israeli societies are segregated into little urban gatherings, differing from Jews to Christian to Muslims to many other religions, and they can not find the way to share that territory in a human way.

In the film we saw during Academic Leadership class, called Promises, there was a clear analyzing of the situation made by a jewish man, who keeps his religion secret until the end, called B.Z.. He traveled around these two countries with no further intentions, just to make regular kids talk through their conflict. He made these seven kids tell their opinions on how Israel and Palestine were separated so rigorously, according to their nationality and religions. They all live 20 minutes apart from each other, but none of them know how each other’s life is like, from the other side of the fence.

These seven kids - Moishe, Faraj, Mahmoud, Daniel, Yarko, Sanabel and Shlomo - all live in different universes, and once in a lifetime, they get the chance to meet each other. The goal of this meeting was to let all the kids share their opinions and their perspectives on the conflict, but they went far beyond that point and, in one day only, they became friends.

The only kid who was not offering to meet the others was Shlomo, a Jewish quarter, Orthodox, son of a Jewish rabbi from Jerusalem. He was not willing to take the opportunity of meeting the other side, since he believed that their split of the territories was fine, and the pain and suffering that the others went through had no effect on him. His decision took him to isolation and ignorance, in my opinion. He never met the rest of the kids.

Daniel and Yarko, twins, Israeli boys living in Israel, were the most accepting and tolerant kids in the film, I think, due to their curiosity to know more about the other nations. They were honest kids, respectful and benevolent. They were indeed the most pacific people in the movie, since they were looking forward for understanding between nations. They were the first kids to communicate with the other children.

The point is, communication made everything easier for the children who met all together. They told each other what they felt, they had talks about how the world is, and they finally got to a conclusion in the end of the day: nations need to talk to each other, meet, understand and collaborate to have a better present, with equality and world peace.

I believe it is not possible at ANY rate, since nations refuse to talk through their conflicts. People will die, but even if it is not possible to have absolute peace, the only thing we can do is try to have some. The answer to every problem, is the word. Communication, understanding, respect. We all need to have those three, and share them, to get to this common goal we can have, and pursue.