Ben Mollov

Ben Mollov
Bar Ilan University | BIU · Department of Political Science

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This chapter will focus on two main approaches connected to seeking to advance both Jewish-Arab relations in the State of Israel and between Israelis and Palestinians with emphasis on inter-religious and intercultural dimensions for dialogue and peace education. Based on both qualitative and quantitative assessments, these approaches focus: (1) on...
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This chapter will focus on the prospects of inter-religious dialogue as a means of fostering the Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding process, both from a theoretical and empirical perspectives. The two authors come from the disciplines of political science and social psychology and employ qualitative and quantitative methods, respectively. Although c...
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Contact theory is a fundamental theory in social psychology, suggesting that contact between antagonistic groups can reduce prejudice and stereotypes. The current study applies former studies in evaluating a specific case of the connection between contact and attitudes toward minorities in work contexts. A survey was conducted using 873 Israeli Jew...
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This chapter will focus on two main approaches connected to seeking to advance both Jewish-Arab relations in the State of Israel and between Israelis and Palestinians with emphasis on inter-religious and intercultural dimensions for dialogue and peace education. Based on both qualitative and quantitative assessments, these approaches focus: (1) on...
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The challenges of accommodative cultural interaction are clearly evident in this chapter, which shows that a religiously based intercultural dialogue is imperative to moderating perception. By emphasizing the commonalities of Judaism and Islam, such dialogue is, in its view, the best means for altering narrow-minded Israeli and Palestinian viewpoin...
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This paper seeks to present the framework of a developing research project aimed at filling a gap in existing approaches to conflict resolution resting on theoretical and empirical elements. We propose an innovative paradigm integrating cultural and religious approaches to conflict management based on an interdisciplinary approach. It aims: (1) To...
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This article seeks to provide a preliminary framework for advancing intercultural dialog, from the point of view of political science, social psychology, and anthropology as it relates to computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face (FTF) contact. It offers a basis for integrating elements which hithertofore have not been integrated as pa...
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This paper is part of a continuing research project assessing the impact of: Israeli- Palestinian dialogue, contact in work and educational settings and Jewish-Arab perceptions. Building on a research project that began in the late 1990’s with roots in the period immediately following the 1967 Six Day War the researchers have assessed the impact of...
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This paper will focus on two case studies concerning the impact of extended contact between Jews and Arabs: (1) In an extended joint educational setting; and (2) in an extended work setting. These two case studies afford the opportunity to further test the contact hypothesis (Amir, 1969) and compare several types of contact. A year long Arab-Jewish...
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This paper will assess: (1) The impact of two semester long Jewish-Arab co-existence courses at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and its affiliated college in Western Galilee; and (2) a joint Jewish-Arab student and faculty study mission to Poland and Jewish Holocaust sites undertaken in 2005 as a culminating activity for the two courses. Our study wi...
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The purpose of this paper will be threefold: (1) To assess attitudes towards contact between Jews and Arabs particularly during the current period of conflict regression in the framework of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; (2) to explore differential attitudes between men and women within the context of the current conflict; and (3) to further ass...
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The vast majority of nation states today are no longer ethnically homogenous and the maintenance of inter-group cohesion is considered to be a significant challenge to policy makers. This is the case in Israel, where social tensions between disparate groups of Jews and tensions concerning the integration of Israel's Arab community have called into...
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This paper explores the possibilities of intercultural dialogue as a means of peace building on the people-to-people level. With its focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the work assesses a number of efforts, which have utilized cultural dialogue rooted in religion to facilitate dialogue, relationship building, and perception change during the...
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Hans J. Morgenthau's legacy has been undergoing a scholarly reevaluation. From an earlier perception of Morgenthau as a one-dimensional advocate of pure realpolitik, more recent scholarly literature has been emphasizing significant transcendent themes in Morgenthau's thought, that reflect his concerns relating to the importance of morality in state...
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Daniel J. Elazar saw the idea of societal partnership—rooted in the Judaic idea of brit, a key explanatory element in the Jewish political tradition—as the basis of federalism. In his view, brit as the foundation of federalism essentially concerns interaction and relationships. Elazar's approach to federalism has possible applications to contempora...

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