In this video, Siham Abu Awad discusses how her life changed when her brother Yousef was shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Her political activist mother, who’d spent four years in jail, brought her and her remaining brothers to Parent’s Circle, a remarkable organisation that brings together bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families. Parents Circle from Insight [...]

Below are listed peacebuilding and conflict resolution organisations active in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Just click on a group’s name for further information. This section of Insight on Conflict has been prepared in alliance with the Peace NGO Forum, a network of over 100 Palestinian and Israeli NGOs working towards peaceful relations. All [...]

Shaare Zedek Medical Centre is in a suburb of Jerusalem and one of three Israeli hospitals where Palestinians are permitted to go for treatment. The lobby is filled with a presentation on the history of Israeli medicine, the cafes full of visitors and patients. On the fifth floor in a small waiting room in the [...]

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the longest-running and most contentious in the world. The conflict can be seen at one level to be essentially over the competing claims of two different nations to one area of land. However the issues are deeply complex and contested, and in 2010, despite many years of a peace [...]