LECTURE | Is peace education effective in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

WALTHAM, MASS. | Is peace education effective in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? That is the heavy-duty question raised in the next lecture organized by the Coexistence and Conflict Graduate Programs (COEX) at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.

The speaker: Dr. Ned Lazarus, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution of George Mason University. He will speak on the impact of his study Wednesday, December 5th, 2012, 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm, Room G2, Heller School at the university.

Is it possible to successfully educate youth for peace when they live in a reality of intractable conflict? Ned Lazarus presents findings and reflections from 15 years of dialogue and peace education practice, evaluation and research in the Middle East. Dr. Lazarus’s dissertation is a long-term impact study of the Seeds of Peace program, inspired by eight years’ work as the organization’s Program Director in Jerusalem.

While rigorously evaluating a popular peace education model, this study tells the stories of a pivotal generation: Palestinians and Israelis who entered adolescence at the hopeful dawn of the Oslo peace process, to emerge as adults in an era of intifada and “separation.”

Read Dr. Lazarus’s CV here. –rg, theaterofOne World