Lecture by Iyad AlDajani as part of the forum “What’s the Way Out? Jews and Palestinians between Walls and Wants”

As part of the forum on civil society’s requirements for peace, representatives of four institutions offer their perspectives on the issue of reconciliation and the effects that 7 October and the war in Gaza have had on their work. Iyad AlDajani offers a scholarly view on reconciliation and outlines the work of the Jena Centre for Reconciliation Studies.

Iyad AlDajani – Researcher on reconciliation

Iyad AlDajani was born and raised in East Jerusalem in a Palestinian family. He is Director of the Ph.D. programme for Reconciliation, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding Studies and Executive Director for the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Jena. His research focuses on overcoming violence, religious peacemaking, and reconciliation through applied internet communication technologies.