The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians

NAVA SONNENSCHIEN is the founder and current director of the School for Peace in Israel. She has trained more than a thousand Palestinian and Jewish facilitators and social change agents to plan, structure, and lead programs for groups in conflict in Israel, Palestine, and around the world.  In 2010, she received the U.S. Department of State’s Women of Courage award for her leadership and advocacy for social change and coexistence.

Foreword
Chapter 1: When Groups Meet:  Understanding How Power Dynamics Shape Intergroup Encounters
PART ONE: HUMAN RIGHTS & POLITICAL ACTIVISM
Chapter 2: Michael Sfard - Lawyer and human rights activist specializing in human rights law and the laws of war
Chapter 3: Suhad Hammoud Dahleh - Lawyer focusing on the human rights of East Jerusalem’s 260,000 Palestinians; co-founder of the law firm Dahleh, Hammound and Associates
Chapter 4: Mohammad Abu Snineh - Lawyer with the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center
Chapter 5: Yonatan Shapira - Activist and musician with music available on Spotify and iHeartRadio; member of Boycott from Within
PART TWO: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, EDUCATION & PLANNING
Chapter 6: Ayelet Roth - School Network Director of Hand in Hand bilingual school
Chapter 7: Harb Amara - Program Director for the School for Peace
Chapter 8: Youval Tamari
Chapter 9: Rachela Yanay
Chapter 10: Nazih Ansaari
Chapter 11: Sebastian Wallerstein - Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Center at Tel Aviv University
PART THREE: FAMILY & COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
Chapter 12: Wassim Biroumi - Program Coordinator of ICCI and coordinates a program called “From Memory to Reconciliation” for Youth and Young Adults with the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel
Chapter 13: Yoav Lurie - Psychotherapist with both individuals and groups; Occupational Therapist; Works in private practice and the Center for the Victims of Sexual Assaults in Tel Aviv; Teaches in Occupational Therapy Department in Tel-Aviv University; Board member of the Israeli Association of Group Therapy
Chapter 14: Dina Zarega - Clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Jerusalem
Chapter 15: Slieman Halabi - Coordinator of Internal Events at the Salaam-Shalom Initiative; Research Associate at Jacobs University in Bremen; Current Ph.D. candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena at the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World
PART FOUR: UNIVERSITY TEACHING & RESEARCH
Chapter 16: Norma Musih - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University; Ph.D. candidate the Indiana University
Chapter 17: Roi Silberberg - Program Director of the School for Peace
Chapter 18: Nada Matta - Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at New York University; Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the Department of Sociology at Drexel University
Chapter 19: Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder - Senior Lecturer on the sociology of gender and education at Ben-Gurion University
Chapter 20: Maram Masarwi - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University; Head of the early childhood education department at Al-Qasemi College of Education; Lecturer in the faculty of Education at the David Yallin College in Israel
PART FIVE: PIONEERING NEW ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 21: Eitan Bronstein - Co-Director, Video Director, and Editor of De-Colonizer, a research and art laboratory
Chapter 22: Amin Khalaf - Leader of the East & West Center for language study in Jerusalem
Chapter 23: Maya Mukamel
Chapter 24: Badria Biromi
Chapter 25: Avi Levi
Chapter 26: Amal Elsana Alh’jooj
Afterword: A Critical Analysis of the Interviews
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