In The Power of Dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, scholar and activist Nava Sonnenschein shares a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews she conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, a decade after their graduation. Participants with diverse personal and professional backgrounds completed a series of conflict transformation workshops using the model developed by the School for Peace at the world's only intentional Jewish-Palestinian community, Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam ("Oasis of Peace" in Hebrew and Arabic). Critically, the interviews vividly demonstrate that peacebuilding does not end with the courses. Most of the graduates choose to work professionally in roles that contribute to peace-building. Sonnenschein shows the transformational potential of encounter between members of groups in conflict, sharing how ordinary Israelis and Palestinians coming together in an open and honest environment undergo life-changing experiences that provide concrete hope for a sustainable path to a peaceful shared existence as equals in Israel and Palestine.



About the Author
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.

Reviews
"This anthology of Israeli Jewish and Palestinian narratives expressed through in-depth interviews reveal the meaningful process of dialogue that changed participants' life-experiences, perspectives and even aspects of identity, and demonstrates how seeds of change begin in questioning long-lasting social convictions." -- Yona Teichman * Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel *



Book Information
ISBN 9780813599212
Author Nava Sonnenschein
Format Paperback
Page Count 388
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 513g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm