Presents a collection of twenty-five powerful interviews Nava Sonnenschein conducted with Palestinian and Jewish Israeli alumni of peacebuilding courses, a decade after their graduation. She shows the transformational potential of encounters between members of groups in conflict.

Foreword Chapter 1: When Groups Meet:  Understanding How Power Dynamics Shape Intergroup Encounters PART ONE: HUMAN RIGHTS & POLITICAL ACTIVISM Chapter 2: Michael Sfard - Lawyer and human rights activist specializing in human rights law and the laws of war Chapter 3: Suhad Hammoud Dahleh - Lawyer focusing on the human rights of East Jerusalem’s 260,000 Palestinians; co-founder of the law firm Dahleh, Hammound and Associates Chapter 4: Mohammad Abu Snineh - Lawyer with the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center Chapter 5: Yonatan Shapira - Activist and musician with music available on Spotify and iHeartRadio; member of Boycott from Within PART TWO: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, EDUCATION & PLANNING Chapter 6: Ayelet Roth - School Network Director of Hand in Hand bilingual school Chapter 7: Harb Amara - Program Director for the School for Peace Chapter 8: Youval Tamari Chapter 9: Rachela Yanay Chapter 10: Nazih Ansaari Chapter 11: Sebastian Wallerstein - Executive Director of the Affordable Housing Center at Tel Aviv University PART THREE: FAMILY & COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH Chapter 12: Wassim Biroumi - Program Coordinator of ICCI and coordinates a program called “From Memory to Reconciliation” for Youth and Young Adults with the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel Chapter 13: Yoav Lurie - Psychotherapist with both individuals and groups; Occupational Therapist; Works in private practice and the Center for the Victims of Sexual Assaults in Tel Aviv; Teaches in Occupational Therapy Department in Tel-Aviv University; Board member of the Israeli Association of Group Therapy Chapter 14: Dina Zarega - Clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Jerusalem Chapter 15: Slieman Halabi - Coordinator of Internal Events at the Salaam-Shalom Initiative; Research Associate at Jacobs University in Bremen; Current Ph.D. candidate at Friedrich Schiller University Jena at the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World PART FOUR: UNIVERSITY TEACHING & RESEARCH Chapter 16: Norma Musih - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University; Ph.D. candidate the Indiana University Chapter 17: Roi Silberberg - Program Director of the School for Peace Chapter 18: Nada Matta - Ph.D. candidate in the sociology department at New York University; Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies and Modern Languages and the Department of Sociology at Drexel University Chapter 19: Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder - Senior Lecturer on the sociology of gender and education at Ben-Gurion University Chapter 20: Maram Masarwi - Member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Comparative Conflict Studies at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Belgrade Singidunum University; Head of the early childhood education department at Al-Qasemi College of Education; Lecturer in the faculty of Education at the David Yallin College in Israel PART FIVE: PIONEERING NEW ORGANIZATIONS Chapter 21: Eitan Bronstein - Co-Director, Video Director, and Editor of De-Colonizer, a research and art laboratory Chapter 22: Amin Khalaf - Leader of the East & West Center for language study in Jerusalem Chapter 23: Maya Mukamel Chapter 24: Badria Biromi Chapter 25: Avi Levi Chapter 26: Amal Elsana Alh’jooj Afterword: A Critical Analysis of the Interviews References