Lecture by Mohammad Darawshe 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. Mohammad Darawshe talks about the aims and programmes of the Givat Haviva Education Centre and how their work and the activities of other peace initiatives in Israel have been made more difficult since 7 October. 

Mohammad Darawshe – Head of Givat Haviva Educational Centre for Jewish-Arabic Understanding

Mohammad Darawshe is the Director of Strategy at the Givat Haviva Center for Shared Society in central Israel. He is considered a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations and has presented lectures and papers at the European parliament, NATO Defense College, World Economic Forum, and Club de Madrid, US Congress, Herzliya Conference and Israel’s Presidential Conference. In 2009 he served as a member of the national committee which drafted Israel’s Coexistence Education policy. He is a Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, researching national minorities.