Our Purpose

Ultimate Peace builds bridges of friendship and understanding for youth from different social and cultural backgrounds around the world. We focus on fun and education, not politics, using the exhilarating and character building sport of Ultimate Frisbee as our tool (read more).

Camp is off to a great start… your donation can help eliminate our deficit.

CAMP U.P. a Huge Success!

Ultimate Peace Summer Camp! This month Ultimate Peace broke new ground, holding its first annual Ultimate Peace Residential Summer Camp, in Acco, Israel. 120 youth from under-served Palestinian and Jewish communities in the West Bank and within Israel got a break from the tensions of their daily lives. They lived together for a week in beautiful, safe, secure surroundings, enjoyed a multitude of fun activities, and played and bonded around the sport of Ultimate. Teachers and coaches from their communities underwent a 3-day coaches training to ensure continuity.

The coaches were made up of international elite players, all of whom took time off from work/school to work with the Middle Eastern youth.

Ultimate Teams – It’s not too late to become an Ulti-Mate 2010 !

Learn more about CAMP U.P.! (read more).

Ultimate Peace in the U.S.A.

Ultimate Peace unveils its pilot domestic program:

We are proud to partner with Emerald City Ultimate in Seattle, WA, in order to provide 15 free Ultimate Frisbee clinics for underserved youth, within the U.S.A., who do not have the opportunity to learn or play the game.

Ultimate Peace in the Middle East in 2010 & 2011!

• Regular Community Sessions in 8 villages
• Ultimate Peace Overnight Summer Camp
• Regional Twinned Team Youth League

Following our ground-breaking first event in Tel Aviv in April 2009, the organizers of Ultimate Peace are excited to announce the next exciting phase of Ultimate Peace in the Middle East.

Our goals in 2010/2011 include building a sustainable program in the region. There will be 4 major initiatives:

1. Facilitate monthly sessions in 8 Palestinian and Israeli villages
2. Convene a full “immersion” Ultimate Peace overnight summer camp for 120 Palestinian & Israeli youth
3. Organize and convene the first Ultimate Peace Twinned Youth League
4. Train community coaches & instructors to teach the values and sport of Ultimate (read more).

Other Ultimate Peace Initiatives

While solidifying our commitment in the Middle East is our current priority, we will also be developing the following program components concurrently:

1. Initiate the “UP Catalyst Program” - We will be supporting Ultimate change agents around the world to start small programs and plant the seeds of Ultimate Peace, no matter where they are.
2. Implementing a Domestic Pilot – We will partner with an inner-city youth program to support the development of a small cross-cultural UP program.
3. Choosing the next International Region – We will explore opportunities to bring UP into one of the conflict zones that have expressed interest thus far, develop a local partnership, and make the decision to move forward together.

Ultimate Peace as an organization will also be busy building a sustainable infrastructure, which means that securing multiple funding streams, structuring effective governance, and building multifaceted organizational capacity will be paramount.

As always, we are counting on your support. This is an ambitious plan and we need all the help we can get! Be a part of Ultimate Peace. Donate, volunteer, spread the word, send your ideas!

North Bay Community Peace Builder Award

Dr. David Barkan, one of our directors, was presented with the “North Bay Community Peace Builder Award“, honoring him for initiating and leading the innovative work of Ultimate Peace.

The award was given as part of “Creating a World Beyond Violence”, an event held in Marin County on June 6, 2009, organized by The Peace Alliance, to benefit the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace.

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