John Kiss
In his workshop, Seeking Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Situation Kiss developed his approach to addressing the conflict: to expose children from both sides to each other by offering them human encounters with the other side of the conflict, and to give both Arabs and Jews equal rights and security. Although he was labeled by the media as an "optimist", Kiss often admitted that peace activists in the Middle East were "in the minority." According to Kiss, Islam in and of itself does not encourage violence, and "Islamist fanatics are a tiny minority." In interviews, he shared that he and his Arab friends often disagree around political issues, yet the mere culture of conversing peacefully was, in his view, to be celebrated.