Conflicts never die, she said, they just change to politics.
“It won’t be over in 2010, but it will have begun to be over,” Fitzduff said. “‘2010’ will be a huge part of the hope that will take us forward.”
Zeev Ben-Shachar, a graduate student who co-directs the 2010 project with Heilman, came up with the idea last semester.
But for now, the plans of the 2010 group are not concrete.
Heilman, a former Israeli soldier, said he wants to return to the Middle East this summer to aid the peace process in the political realm.
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He said he wanted the group of roughly 20 people to expand, and particularly to include Arabs.
—Staff writer Susanne C. Chock can be reached at chock@fas.harvard.edu.