This is how you could sum up the philosophy of "Breaking the Ice", a non-profit foundation founded in Israel in 2003, based in Berlin.
It's an organisation that brings together people at war, Israelis and Palestinians, and puts them through a survival test (the first exercise was climbing an unconquered peak in the Antarctic). By the end of the test they had got to know and understand each other and learnt how to work together in peace.
One of the characteristics of the foundation is its choice of participants: not pacifists but former soldiers, people who have experienced the war and its horrors directly.
The next challenge will be a journey from Jerusalem to Tripoli in Libya, in a specially converted old fire engine, symbolising the need to put out conflicts.
