Building Peace Through Knowledge The Israeli-Palestinian Case
This groundbreaking volume documents a comprehensive peacebuilding initiative in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reviews the broad theoretical base underlying these efforts. Theory chapters discuss intrinsic peace-related concepts, includi
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Building Peace Through Knowledge The Israeli-Palestinian Case
Building Peace Through Knowledge
Alean Al-Krenawi
Building Peace Through Knowledge The Israeli-Palestinian Case
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Alean Al-Krenawi Spitzer Department of Social Work Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva Israel
ISBN 978-3-319-56278-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56279-7
ISBN 978-3-319-56279-7
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This book is dedicated to my father Theep Al-Krenawi
Whose life and words of wisdom And whose understanding of and respect For all people Serve as a guidepost For my life and career And To my family Dr. Monowar, Liali and Muhammad Al-Krenawi For their inspiration and support
Preface
This book is the fruit of efforts that spanned years, and, in truth, even decades. It is my deep pleasure to now offer the reader a brief sketch of such efforts, and the process by which the volume was birthed. The proximal roots of ‘Building Peace Through Knowledge: The Israeli-Palestinian Case’ lie in the multi-year USAID project of the same name. This project, which was codirected by the author and the author’s colleague and friend, Dr. Tawfiq Ali Mohammad Salman, emerged from our joint sense that a very particular Israeli–Palestinian collaboration was urgently called for in the region. Such a collaboration—novel in the world of peace work—would have as its main pillar the dissemination of knowledge. Moreover, the collaboration would build upon cutting-edge science, yet extend this knowledge boundary by being constructed as a continuously tuned longitudi
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