“I agree with bloodless dissent...” “I choose to avoid war…”

(A debate at the Max Bell Theater, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, 1982)

THE first sentence was uttered by Tammy, an Israeli student, and the second by Abdullah, her Palestinian peer, in a World Debate forum held regularly at the Max Bell auditorium on the hill at the campus of Lester B. Pearson College. Both were two of the 200 students selected from 65 countries