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CONTRIBUTORS Sami Adwan is co-Director of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) and Professor of Education at Bethlehem University, Palestine. He is author of The Status of Religious Education in Palestinian Schools (2001) and co-author (with Ruth Firer) of The Israeli–Palestinian Con®ict in History and Civics Textbooks of Both Nations (2004); The Palestinian and Israeli Environmental NGOs in Peace Building (with Dan Bar-On) (2004); Victimhood and Beyond (2001); and The Role of Palestinian and Israeli NGOs in Peace Building (2000). Dan Bar-On is Chair and Professor of Psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, and co-director (with Sami Adwan) of PRIME. He is author of Legacy of Silence: Encounters with Children of the Third Reich (1989); The Indescribable and the Undiscussable (1999); and Fear and Hope: Three Generations of Holocaust Survivors’ Families (1998). Mordechai Bar-On is a historian and research fellow at the Yad Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. He served for twenty-two years in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a career soldier, and as Chief Education Of¤cer, retiring with the rank of colonel. He is author of The Beginning of the Israeli Historiography of the 1948 War (2001); Smoldering Borders: Studies in the History of the State of Israel, 1948–1967 (2001); In Pursuit of Peace: A History of Israel’s Peace Movements (1996); The Gates of Gaza: Israel’s Defence and Foreign Policy, 1955–1957 (1994); Etgar ve Tigra: Israel’s Road to Suez (1991); and Peace Now: A Pro¤le of a Protest Movement (1985). Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor of Psychology at the School of Education and Director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish–Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University. He is co-editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal and author of Stereotypes and Prejudice in Con®ict: Arab Representation in the Israeli Jewish Society (with Yona Teichman) (2004); Shared Beliefs in a Society (2000); and Group Beliefs (1990). Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is author of Palestinian Politics since the Oslo Accords (2003); Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World (2001); The Rule of Law in the Arab World (1997); and Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt (1990). Saleh Abdel Jawad is Associate Professor of History and Political Science at Birzeit University. He is author of The Israeli Assassination Policy in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2001); Toward a Palestinian Strategy on Jerusalem (1998); and The Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles: Present and Future Perspectives (1994). Eyal Naveh is Professor of History and Chair of the General and Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Tel Aviv University and Professor of History at the Kibbutzim College of Education. He is author of Crown of Thorns: Political Martyrdom in America, Reinhold Niebuhr and Non-Utopian Liberalism (2002); and Histories: Toward a Dialogue with the Israeli Past (2002); and four history textbooks written for the Israeli educational system. Ilan Pappe is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Haifa University and the head of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies. His books include A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (2003); The Making of the Arab-Israeli Con®ict, 1947–1951 (1992); Britain and the ArabIsraeli Con®ict (1988); and The Israel/Palestine Question (edited) (1999). Dina Porat is head of the Chaim Rosenberg School for Jewish Studies, Alfred P. Slaner Chair for the Study of Racism and Anti-Semitism, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, and Director of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism. Her publications include Beyond the Corporeal; The Life and Times of Abba Kovner; Am Oved and Yad-Vashem (2000), which received the Zandman Award and the Buchman Award; and The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David, The Zionist Leadership 272 ❖ Contributors ❖ in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945 (1990), which won the Yad Ben-Zvi Award and the Kubowitzki Award. Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Con®ict and Con®ict Resolution at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. His many authored and edited books include Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa (2005); Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges (2004); When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (2004); State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (2003); and Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of...

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