NEW YORK | Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Sa’eb Erekat engaged in discussions with 80 supporters, including Seeds, on September 24. Erekat, who is in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, discussed the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian peace process and how to move it forward. “I don’t think it’s God’s will or Allah’s will for us to remain in conflict,” he said. Erekat stressed how close past rounds of negotiations had come to yielding an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement … FULL STORY

NEW YORK | Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was honored with the 2012 John P. Wallach Peacemaker Award for her decades of service at the annual Seeds of Peace Spring Dinner on May 16. She was joined by Google Ideas Director Jared Cohen, who received the Young Peacemaker Award. Over 380 people attended the dinner, held at the Conrad New York Hotel, which raised $1.36M in support of Seeds of Peace programs worldwide. Secretary Albright first welcomed Seeds … FULL STORY

Dear Friends, Thank you for supporting Seeds of Peace through yesterday’s 2012 Spring Dinner. We are grateful to Secretary Albright and Google Idea’s Jared Cohen for affirming so vividly the essential role Seeds of Peace plays in regions in conflict. As Madeleine Albright said, our Seeds “liberate themselves from the past through the simple process of talking to one another, sharing their doubts and fears, participating side by side in everyday tasks and discovering the aspirations and values that they … FULL STORY

NEW YORK | The 8th Annual Stand Up for Peace on November 7 raised nearly $45,000 to support the Seeds of Peace International Camp, regional programming, and the nearly 5,000 graduate Seeds around the world that are actively pursuing the goal of peace. The event took place at the renowned B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, NYC, and was hosted by the Young Leadership Committee of Seeds of Peace. The room was filled with laughter as a packed house enjoyed the … FULL STORY

LAHORE | Eleven teams from various government, semi-government and private schools of Lahore participated in the Seeds of Peace Dramatics Festival 2011 on October 22 at the Ali Institute of Education. The grade 8 to 10 students participated in the competition and performed a 10 to 15 minutes skit on the theme of “Imperfection: Man’s Greatest Beauty.” The competition encouraged the participants to see beauty in the imperfect world around them. They took different issues (disability, hopelessness and its solution, … FULL STORY

NEW YORK | Richard Holbrooke, late US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was awarded the 2011 John P. Wallach Peacemaker Award on May 18. Seeds of Peace also honored Carlson, whose chairman was presented with the 2011 Corporate Peacemaker Award. Kati Marton Holbrooke accepted the award on behalf of her late husband, saying “I cannot tell you how much it means to me that Richard is being honored by an organization that really embodied his core values throughout his … FULL STORY

NEW YORK | Event photos are posted on our Facebook page. Please feel free to post your own photos from the night. Special thanks to our event sponsors Event production sponsor Lead catering sponsor Supporting caterers Atlas Cafe, Cafe Orlin, Hummus Place, Yaffa Cafe Raffle sponsors Dressler NYC, Nobu, Alanna Bess Jewlery, NBA Entertainment and Player Marketing, Bunny Chow Our wonderful onboard hosts And our dedicated Host Committee!

NEW YORK | New Yorker magazine Editor David Remnick addressed more than 300 philanthropists, dignitaries and community leaders at the Annual Seeds of Peace Benefit Dinner at the Plaza Hotel on May 26. Christine Baranski, award winning star of stage and screen, hosted the evening. Remnick, a Pulitzer-Prize winning author whose latest work is The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, said that Seeds of Peace turns “other people—the great scary ‘other’—into human beings, one person at a … FULL STORY

NEW YORK | Over 1,100 people helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Seeds of Peace’s work at the annual event. “It is the first time that a Peace Market has been sold out,” said Peace Market co-chair Scott Birnbaum. “And we are proud to announce that we raised $200,000.” This year featured live performances by John Forté and Salman Ahmad, as well as speeches by three Seeds and Ozi Amanat and Asema Ahmed, the 2010 Young Peacemaker Honorees. … FULL STORY