Do Israelis & Palestinians Really Want Peace?
What Opinion Polls in Both Societies Teach Us About The Conflict. Public opinion expert Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin in conversation with Ezzedine Fishere.
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Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert who conducts research and policy analysis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With over twenty years of experience, she has advised nine national campaigns in Israel and worked in 15 other countries. She is a co-founder at +972 Magazine, co-hosts The Tel Aviv Review podcast and writes regularly for Haaretz newspaper. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Post, Newsweek, Time, The Guardian, Observer, among other venues. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Jewish Currents magazine, and a fellow at The Century Foundation. Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin holds a PhD in political science from Tel Aviv University and she has taught at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, the Jezreel Valley College, and Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus. Her new book, The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel: Promise Unfulfilled, was published in September 2023.
Dartmouth’s interdisciplinary programs in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies have a longstanding commitment to fostering dialogue, community, and joint academic inquiry. Building on this decades-long partnership and recent campus forums on the current conflict, the Middle East Dialogues foster learning and an open exchange of ideas to bridge what can appear to be an impenetrable divide.
The Dialogue Project provides training in the development of essential collaborative dialogue skills—fostering a community that cultivates the respectful and open exchange of ideas. Programming for students, faculty, and staff builds skills in such topics as empathetic listening, managing emotions, navigating conversations, and finding points of connection. To learn more, visit dialogueproject.dartmouth.edu.
Sponsored by Middle Eastern Studies, Jewish Studies, the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, The Dickey Center for International Understanding, and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth