We examine the role of family- and individual-level protective factors in the relation between exposure to ethnic-political conflict and violence and posttraumatic stress among Israeli and Palestinian youth. Specifically, we examine whether parental mental health (lack of depression), positive parenting, children's self-esteem, and academic achievement moderate the relation between exposure to ...

In recent years German media coverage of the Middle East conflict has been accused of an anti-Israeli bias that reinforces old, widely held prejudices and stereotypes about Jews and supports the common accusation that Israel misuses the tragedy of the Holocaust to justify anti-Palestinian policies. In particular, there is the accusation that during and after the Gaza War the media portrayed Isr...

Many real world conflicts can be understood in terms of logical inconsistencies between goals. In this paper, I present an approach to conflict resolution that unifies logic, goalreduction and condition-action rules in a cognitive model of intelligent agent. The approach uses goal hierarchies to reconcile goal conflicts by finding alternative, logically consistent ways of solving higher-level g...

Abstract The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, highlight dilemma between different uses popular culture context conflict resolution resistance. Our argument identifies represented wha...

The Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem was originally an Islamic building. Later 20th century, as Palestinian-Israeli conflict intensified, religious function gradually gave way to a political one, becoming symbol conflict, which Palestinians saw statehood and Israel administered part its national territory. transformation from is not only expression building symbol, but also manifesta...

A crucial problem of conflict management is that whatever happens in negotiations will be interpreted and framed by stakeholders based on their different belief–value systems and world views. This problem will be discussed in the first part of this article as the main cognitive problem of conflict management. The second part develops a general semiotic solution of this problem, based on Charles...

Two studies examined the association of particular sentiments and political identities with Jewish-Israeli students’ responses to a generic plan to end the Israeli– Palestinian conflict and to narrower proposals for cooperative undertakings. Three composites—hatred/anger, compassion/empathy (reverse-coded), and guilt/shame (reverse-coded), and also a global composite combining these three sets ...

This extended article argues a case for an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation, proposes the central elements necessary to realize this in practice, and offers policy advice key players as well makers United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. After 73 years of conflict, following Arab Spring, intermittent violence between Israel Palestinians, Palestinians will not give up on their as...