Advancing Science Together: Undertaking Joint Research in the Israeli-Palestinian Context

Abstract

One of the hallmarks of conflict resolution and peace-building is that these fields integrate scholarly work with grassroots work (Deutsch, Coleman, & Marcus, 2006). The role of the scholar-practitioner is a very important one, because in order to be good theoretician in this field, one also needs to be connected to the arenas in which conflicts are actually unfolding. Good, sensitive, and creative practitioners, who help facilitate conflict resolution and peace-building efforts, are well versed in the theories and concepts of the discipline of peace research and also able to conceptualize cases and phenomena that they are confronted with “on the ground” (Lederach, 2005).