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Int’l conference on Dilemmas of Recognition in Asymmetric Conflicts

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On 4-5 May 2015 the School for Peace, in cooperation with the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education of Tel Aviv University, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, convened an international conference: Dilemmas of Recognition in Asymmetric conflicts: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Comparative Perspective.

The first day of the conference was held at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and the second day was held at the Tel Aviv University. The organizers, Prof. Amal Jamal and Dr. Nava Sonnenschein say that about 90 people took part. The conference focused on major issues relating to various angles of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the country. It dealt with:

  • Management of contradictory historical memories within an asymmetrical reality

  • Whether Israeli-Palestinian cinema passes the test of providing an ethical presentation

  • Issues of delegitimization and dialogue in public opinion, education, literature and social media platforms,

  • The issue of national ethnicization and empty citizenship,

  • Patterns of legislation over the last decade,

  • Politics of space and the actions of civil society organizations in promoting equality and working against racism.

  • There was also a panel with foreign guests who came from other places of conflict: South Africa, Serbia, Northern Ireland, which allowed us to make comparisons. It was important for us to present the voices of academics who are the current leaders in this field.

For each panel, video clips are attached in the original language. These are followed with audio files in English translation

Panels:

Managing the Historical Memory: History in Asymmetric Reality

Chairperson: Professor Yechiel Klar
Dr. Hillel Cohen: Perception of the Historical Past and the Future among Jewish and Arab Students
in Israeli Education and the Palestinian Authority: One Memory? Many Memories?
Dr. Iman Nahas: Transferring the Memory of the Nakba through Generations
in Arab Society in Israel
Dr. Adel Mana’a: Forgetfulness and Oppression of Palestinian Historical Memory
Prof. Yechiel Klar and Hadas Baram: On the Ability and Inability to Accommodate
the Other’s Historical Narrative: A Social Psychological Identity

Video:

Audio (English):

Israeli and Palestinian Films: A Test of Ethic Representation

Chairperson: Raya Morag
Dr. Sande Meiri: Go Backward – Myths and the Messiah in Israeli Documentary Films
Prof. Raya Morag: Israeli and Palestinian Documentary Films – “Blood Relations”
Raji Bathish, Novelist: Presentation of the Nakba in Palestinian Films
Anat Zuria: Film Director: Ethical Conflicts in Presenting the Other – From the Filmmakers
Point of View

Video:

Audio (English):

Dilemmas of Conflicts with Majority-Minority Relations

Chairperson: Mr. Wasim Biroumi
Prof. Leslie Schwartz: Stellenbosch University, South Africa:
“Out of Bounds: – ‘Post Conflict’: Beyond the Pale, ‘Beyond the Post’ ”:
Working with Disparity in Higher Education in South Africa
Dr. Orli Fridman: Albanian-Serb Relations/ Kosovo and Serbia: Challenges
and Realities in Post Conflict
Prof. Colin Craig: Northern Ireland: Executive Director Corrymeela Community:
20 Years After the Cease Fire: Living with a Hollow Peace
Prof. Camelia Suleiman: Hybrid Identities in Israeli-Palestinian Reality and their
Reflection in Literature
Video:

Audio (English):

Between Delegitimation and Dialogue in Public Opinion,
Education, Literature and Social Media

Chairperson: Prof. Ifat Maoz
Dr. Yiftach Ron: The Israeli Palestinian Dialogue in Israel and Dealing with
Delegitimization with the Help of Meetings
Asmahan Samri: Social Media, the Construction of Solidarity and
Mobilization for Protest among Palestinians Residents of East Jerusalem
Prof. Ifat Maoz and Yossi David: Dehumanization, Threat, and Human Rights:
Data from Opinion Polls
Dr. Zvi Beckerman: Bilingual Schools as a Metaphor for a Different Reality – Success or Failure?
Video:

Audio (English):

Hollow Ethnicization of National Citizenship – Reading Patterns
of Legislation in Israel over the Past Decade

Chairperson: Prof. Amal Jamal
Dr. Hala Khoury-Bisharat: The Nakba Law and the Question of Transitional Justice.Dr. Ilan Saban: Recent Legislation Action and the Arab-Palestinian Minority:
The Additional “Price Tag” of the Occupation
Professor Amal Jamal: Misrecognition and the Politics of Hollow Citizenship
Video:

Audio (English):

Politics of Space

Chairperson: Prof. Oren Yiftachel
Prof. Oren Yiftachel: “Reforms” Land and Ethnic Relations in Israel / Palestine
Prof. Yosef Jabareen: Territoriality of Negation and the Creation of Bi-National Space
Dr. Safa Abu-Rabia: The Struggle over the Land, Identity and History:
Arab and Bedouin Women Tell about the Impact of the Nakba on their Lives
Dr. Hanna Swede: Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Housing Space in Israel
between the Majority and the Minority
Video:

Audio (English):

Civil Society: Working for Equality and Against Racism

Chairperson: Dr. Nava Sonnenschein
Samar Swede: Druze Arab Initiative Committee: Does Equal Responsibility Bring Equal Rights?
Dr. Nava Sonnenschein, SFP, Wahat al Salam-Neve Shalom: Life Stories of Graduates
of the SFP: What Transforms Social Awareness to Action for Political and Social Change?
Chia Noach, Negev Coexistence Forum: Dilemmas and Lessons Learned for the Human
Rights Defenders Project
Professor Ariela Friedman, “Without Blurring the Lines”: Arabs and Jews in a Shared College
Video:

Audio (English):

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