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New Approaches to Conflict Management in Israeli Society

Now in its 15th annual cycle this special graduate level training course combines theoretical and practical aspects of cultural approaches to conflict management challenges within Israeli society. Considered a major fixture of the Graduate Program in Conflict Management and Project for the Study of Religion, Culture and Peace at Bar-Ilan University, and run in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation it has served as a conflict management "multiplying" training program through the impact of its many graduates.

Furthermore the course has a public affairs impact through an on-going culminating seminar, now in its seventh year, in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Akko. The emphasis has been on inter-religious and intercultural dialogue involving key actors such as the city's deputy mayors from both the Jewish and Arab sectors, Chief Rabbi and Chief Sheikh, and conflict management mediators.