PRINCETON, NJ Restaurant Dining Guide Announcement

Ultimate Frisbee Summer Camp at The Lawrenceville School

Ultimate Peace to hold second groundbreaking international Ultimate Frisbee Summer camp at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ from June 29th to July 5th.

Ultimate Peace’s mission is to build bridges of friendship, understanding, and leadership between youth separated by social, cultural, and political divides. Ultimate Peace uses the values-based sport of Ultimate Frisbee as context for its unifying work – with no referees in the game, players learn to resolve differences on the field. These skills transfer off the field, cultivating mutual understanding, unlikely friendships, and shared leadership.

Since 2010, Ultimate Peace has run year-round community-based sports and leadership programs in the Middle East, bringing together disconnected Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish youth.  Ultimate Peace is acclaimed for its non-political approach to peacebuilding, succeeding by strengthening trust, respect, and relationships first, delaying confronting divisive topics that plague the region.

Jim Levine, Princeton resident and Camp Co-Director, reflected: “2023 was a huge success. Diverse campers from across the US and Canada spent a transformative week together, in many ways creating a similar culture to our Middle East camp, one in which acceptance, self-discovery, and community bonding are all integral to the days’ fun. The Lawrenceville School is an exceptional partner for this work”.

Just like 2023, diverse North American teens will travel from Atlanta, Philadelphia, Vancouver, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle, as well a First Nations Community in BC, and nearby Columbia High School, ultimate frisbee’s birthplace.

The 2024 camp will up the ante. This summer, 12 Israeli and Palestinian campers, as well as 4 of their coaches will also travel to camp. Unable to convene the usual summer camp locally due to the current war, Ultimate Peace has found a way to provide this rejuvenating opportunity for youth and adults from the Middle East program. 

Additionally, twelve young women from India will be coming to camp as part of a gender-equity project that aims to train 100 female coaches who will lead youth teams in India. Six top youth athletes from communities in Colombia with little access to organized programs will join this extraordinary community.

Ultimate Peace Executive Director and founder, Dr. David Barkan, explained the rationale for these efforts: “The reason we are forever dedicated to bringing youth together who would never otherwise meet, play together, and become friends is based on one simple belief: people on this planet need one another more than ever, and we must prepare the youth of today to carry this tenet forward as they become tomorrow’s leaders.”

Additional information is available at www.ultimatepeace.org, and everyone is invited to follow Ultimate Peace on Facebook and Instagram for updates from camp.