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The creation of 'ROOTED in PEACE' is a personal journey of filmmaker GREG REITMAN who relives his past experience of living in Israel during the first Gulf War and witnessing first hand the gruesomeness of war and its impact on the region. Living on Kibbutz Gesher, we experience first hand the threat of biological weaponry and the scars inflicted on the youth of Jews, Muslims, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu- having to wear the horrific gas masks for their survival. Traumatized by the Gulf War, we revisit GREG REITMAN's quest to return stateside to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to organize a tree drive on campus - called 'The Giving Tree: Rooted in Peace.' Why now, does the filmmaker decide to bring this story to life?

In response to our current global war crisis, the filmmaker examines what he believes to be the root of global conflict. In a quest to reconcile global violence, the filmmaker examines the roots of fundamentalism and how religious dogma affects the consciousness of humankind and the vitality of the planet Earth. The filmmaker's ultimate quest is to ascertain whether the dogma of religion will ultimately control the species and bring destruction to the planet or will humankind prevail and shift its consciousness toward reconciling interfaith coexistence, and the desire to live in a world filled with love and compassion for all humankind.

Along the journey, filmmaker GREG REITMAN will be coordinating a tree drives with PATAGONIA to plant 'trees of hope' and 'trees of peace' in an effort to reconcile global conflict and to send a message of world peace to all the peoples of the world.