Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians

In Wrong Anticipation - Miscalibrated Beliefs between Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians

The reconcilability of actions and beliefs in inter-country relationships, either in business or politics, is of vital importance as incorrect beliefs on foreigners' behavior can have serious implications. We study a typical inter-country interaction by means of a controlled laboratory investment game experiment in Germany, Israel and Palestine involving 400 student participants in total. An in...

"It's About Business not Politics": Software Development Between Palestinians and Israelis

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_3 Abstract This paper focuses on the collaboration in an Israeli-Palestinian tech start-up company. We investigate the strategies enacted by the IT dev...

The incidence of coronary heart disease among Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem.

BACKGROUND Lifestyle factors relevant to coronary risk factors differ between Palestinians and Israelis. Both have been exposed, albeit differently, to the stressors of the long-term conflict. We determined the incidence of coronary heart disease, previously unreported in Palestinians, in these Mediterranean populations and made international comparisons with the MONICA Programme. METHODS We ...

Peace-building through health: challenges and opportunities for an American NGO working with Israelis and Palestinians.

Protracted national conflict and fertility change: Palestinians and Israelis in the twentieth century.

TIIECOURSE OF fertility change in Palestine and Israel over the second half of the twentieth century might seem of negligible interest for the history of the demographic transition, since their combined 8.9 million inhabitants represent only one-sixth of one percent of the world population. Yet the exceptional political history of these populations, in which demography played a major role for b...