"The first step for world peace is for people to meet each other," says Jehane Noujaim, film maker and photographer with degrees in visual arts and philosophy

Her 2004 film documentary Control Room, tells the story of Al Jazeera and its relations with the US Central Command (CENTCOM), as well as the other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Al Jazeera was accused of spreading American propaganda in the East, and being a proponent of terrorism in the West. Her web site states, "The military. The media. The war in Iraq. Who is making history?"

Noujaim tells the story of her efforts at testing and learning about peace on TED.