"Peace is not everything, but without peace everything is nothing." This saying by Willy Brandt, the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize winner, still holds true decades later. One look at the borders of the EU is enough to prove it: Whether, more topically than ever, in Ukraine, in the Middle East in Israel or in North Africa. Numerous armed conflicts lead to misery, displacement, hunger and death. On the other side is the EU, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012. Within the EU, wars seem to have no chance. But here, too, nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism grow, borders are closed and refugees are turned away. What can we learn from European unification for the peaceful future in the crisis areas of our neighboring countries? Where are dangers, weaknesses and resistances for peace in Europe? In this project between young people from Germany and Israel, we wanted to work out what makes peace possible and how democracy can be learned. We are convinced that through intercultural learning and international youth encounters, common values such as tolerance, respect, empathy, equality, solidarity can be experienced, which form the basis for a peaceful society both internally and externally. This is what our project is about: peace building through intercultural, democratic, historical learning. Using approaches of democracy education through the Betzavta method, we wanted to make democratic principles with their opportunities and difficulties tangible and enable the participants to experience fields of experience that help clarify their own social behavior and develop tolerance and respect. Minority, fundamental rights and equality before the law enabled the participants to perceive the advantages and disadvantages of a democratic system and the tense relationship between fundamental rights and self-interest, and to build up a "qualitative understanding of democracy" in the process. They understood that the right to free development applies equally to all people. Furthermore, we wanted to promote the historical learning of the participants with the help of the program. Since many young people have difficulties with European integration and often lack knowledge and understanding, we implemented various methods of historical-political learning in combination with movement pedagogical approaches. Among other things, we focused on the Middle East conflict in order to make clear that both Israeli and Palestinian societies are culturally, ethnically and politically very heterogeneous. Many young people are opposed to dealing with the Holocaust because they do not want to feel guilty. With the visit to the memorial site, we wanted to show that the focus is not on guilt but on responsibility for one's own actions. The conscious participation in the visit to the memorial site should make the young people aware of where exclusion, misanthropy and racism can ultimately lead and that the open confrontation with the dark chapter of history is the prerequisite for a common life in Europe. Anti-Semitism, nationalism and racism are experiencing a renaissance among young people in Brandenburg and Israel. Often, a lack of respect and tolerance for other population groups is the cause. Often, however, it is simply a lack of reflection. The German-Israeli composition in this project brought the chance for a cross-cultural exchange, in which culturally conditioned misunderstandings and fears could be worked through constructively. Through our diversity approach and through intercultural learning, we wanted to create changes of perspective and new evaluations in order to make culturally conditioned worldviews and behaviors visible and understandable. The project work was intended to force the process of deconstructing seemingly fixed stereotypes in order to give participants the opportunity to get to know the "other" as an individual with a personal opinion and their own experiences and thus counteract all forms of discrimination.