Game Changer: How Backgammon Will Bring Peace to the Middle East | Zaki Djemal | TEDxWhiteCity
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- čas přidán 19. 03. 2017
- How backgammon can change the world and even bring peace - starting in Jerusalem.
Zaki Djemal is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of fresh.fund, the first student-run venture capital fund in Israel. He is also Co-Founder of דאבל ירושלמי | دابل مقدسي | Jerusalem Double, Jerusalem’s first backgammon league and championship for Jews and Arabs.
Past adventures of Zaki include: starting tradr, an e-commerce platform for independent fashion brands that is consistently among the most popular in the Brazilian App Store, and serving as a humanitarian aid worker in South Sudan, Japan, Haiti and Nepal. A prolific writer, Zaki has published work in Ha’aretz, Times of Israel, Galatz, Channel Two News, CNN and others. He’s on the board of Tevel BeZedek, a non-profit that promotes sustainability in the Global South, and the Israel Harvard Club. Zaki graduated with honors from Harvard University where he studied Behavioral Economics.
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This talk is a miniature masterpiece! I just returned from a big tournament in Tskaltubo, Georgia, with players from all over the world engaging in friendly competition, and everything you said rings true! Keep playing --
Profoundly beautiful! Count me IN.
I strongly recommend this TED-Talk!!!! Brillant project. I'm in!
Very grateful
Wow Zaki - beautiful!
love this idea!!
Games will bring world peace
Backgammon is Persian game which belongs to iran today
I'm in.
Does anyone who where I can find the study about the rats he talked about? Thanks!
It's either this study or it's probably cited by it:
"The neurobiology of social play and its rewarding value in rats"
For more details about what we are doing or to join in our event please visit our Facebook page - come play! facebook.com/jerusalemdouble/
Because Backgammon, unlike Chess is based on peace
4 seasons and 4 basic elements of earth and life...
Backgammon meet SE1 7-midnight - all creeds welcome - cocktails and mocktails on tap. Not sure we can solve politics. A night on or off the rocks heehee
Considering the fact that backgammon is forbidden in Islam, I'm curious to know what he will say haha
Great and promising idea. However...why words Palestine and Palestinians havent been mentioned? Its not "arabs" is Palestinians living in occupied Palestine, plain and simple. I wish this could heal their wounds and pain, but that will be very hard to do.
naive idea that will never catch on
You have a better idea? Glass half full.
@@chein33 to identify a bad idea you do not have to provide an alternative one. Actually most peace comes if different regions and countries become economically dependent on one another. Less nationalism and more globalization = more peace.
Tipical TED (small) Talk....shallow...