Talking to the enemy: the role of trust in peacebuilding (the case of Israel/Palestine conflict

The proposed research is a multi-lens analysis to unpack the complex interconnections between peace and trust within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The research focuses on trust in intergroup relations that have developed between the Israelis and the Palestinians throughout the decades-long conflict, and its impact on the peacebuilding process. It specifically studies joint people-to-people initiatives as a means to explore the dynamics of Israeli-Palestinian “hidden” peacebuilding, but also to examine the wider changes in the Israeli-Palestinian interrelations/conflict