ORGANIZERS:
Amal Jamal (Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Relations at Tel Aviv University)
Nava Sonnenschein (School of Peace at Naveh Shalom)
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, will convene an international conference: Dilemmas of Recognition in Asymmetric Conflicts: the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Comparative Perspective.
The first day of the conference will be held at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University and the second day will be held at the Tel Aviv University. The conference will focus on major issues relating to various angles of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in the country:
- 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 will also be a panel with foreign guests from other places of conflict: South Africa, Serbia, Northern Ireland, which will allow us to make comparisons. It is important for us to present the voices of academics who are the current leaders in this field.