Peace Building Through Women’s Health

Norbert Goldfield is founder and executive director of the American not-for-profit Healing Across the Divides. He is a practicing physician, editor of the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, and has authored more than 50 articles and books. He believes that health professionals can and do play an important role in society beyond direct care.

Preface, acknowledgments, and organization of this book PART I - Introduction and overview of the first fifteen years of Healing Across the Divides 1. Peace Building Through Health – A Review with Specific Attention to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2. Psychic Trauma and Competing Nationalisms in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict PART II - Case studies 3. Ahli Balatah Al-Balad Club: Impacting Diabetes Control with a Focus on Chronic Disease Self-Management 4. Al-Maqdese : Drug Abuse Prevention Among Palestinian Youth in East Jerusalem 5. ASSAF/Israel AIDS Task Force: Promoting Equal Rights for HIV-positive Refugee Asylum Seekers in Israel 6. Beterem: Grandmothers for Social Change in an Arab Town in Northern Israel 7. Family Defense Society – Decreasing Obesity and Early Detection of Domestic Violence in Refugee Camps and Metropolitan Nablus, Occupied Palestinian Territory 8. Hadassah Optimal: Exercise and Nutrition in the Immediate Postpartum Period in Israel – a successful intervention accompanied by government adoption 9. Kayan: Sustainable New Leadership and Health Improvement for Palestinian Women in Northern Israel 10. Ma’An – Impacting Domestic Violence Against Bedouin Women in Southern Israel 11. One in Nine: Community Based Breast Cancer Initiatives 12. Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development – Building Resilience in the Hebron Hills in Occupied Palestinian Territory 13. White Hill Farm: Desert Farming, Improving Nutrition and Communication between Israeli Jews and Bedouin in Southern Israel 14. Strengthening Women Leaders since Healing Across the Divides was Founded in 2004 PART III - Is peace building through health possible in a setting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Past, presemt, future 15. Can Health Professionals Effectively Engage in "healing across the divides" in a Setting of Ongoing Conflict? 16. The Impact of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Palestinian Health Care Professionals Working in Occupied Palestinian Territory 17. Looking Forward: Peace Building through Health Options for Healing Across the Divides Appendix: List of organisations that Healing Across the Divides has worked with and a brief decription of their intervention Contributing authors Index