People

Dr. Yehudith Orbach

Dr. Yehudith Auerbach

Conflict Research
Bar Ilan University

Dr. Yehudith Auerbach is a (by 2015 retired) senior lecturer at the department of Political Science and school of Communication and  Senior Fellow at the Center for International Communication, Bar Ilan University.

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Dr Auerbach is the Director of the Center for Promotion of Teaching at Bar Ilan University. Her main research interest is conflict resolution and reconciliation between enemies in protracted, identity based conflicts.

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Yuval Benziman

Dr. Yuval Benziman

The Swiss Center for Conflict Resolution
Social Science, room 3515

A conflict studies scholar and practitioner. His fields of interest include formal and non-formal (track two) negotiations, society's understanding of conflicts in the change from old wars to new wars, fictional texts (mainly films and literature) in a conflicted society, and social narratives of conflicts.

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Yuval's approach to conflict research is interdisciplinary: his teaching and research cross traditional academic fields and group together political psychology, cultural studies, political science, Israel studies, international relations, and peace and conflict studies. He teaches the theory of conflict research, skill and methodological courses, and case-studies of conflicts. His recent publications were in Negotiation Journal; Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology; Peace & Conflict Studies; and Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict.

 

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Dr. Maya De-Vries

Internship Project Coordinator
Conflict Research
Social Science, room 5424

Maya de Vries graduated from The Swiss Center for conflict Research in 2011, today the coordinator of the Swiss Center Internship Program

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Conducted in the framework of the Faculty of Social Science Project, and a doctoral student at the Department of Communication and at the Swiss Center (supervisor: Professor Ifat Maoz). 

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Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Dr. Tobais Ebbrecht-Hartmann

Department of Communication and Journalism;
German Social History and Culture in the DAAD Center for German Studies

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann is a Lecturer of Cinema Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism and of German Social History and Culture in the DAAD Center for German Studies. His fields of research, teaching and publication are film history and film theory; memory culture and cinematic remembrance of the Holocaust; West and East German cinema; German-Israeli film relations; filmheritage, archival films and echo cinema.

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He holds his PhD from the Free University in Berlin where he also graduated in Film Studies, New German Literature and Political Science. From 2004 to 2010 he was research and teaching assistant in the field of media history at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. After defending his doctoral thesis on cinematic narration of the Holocaust in 2010 he was senior researcher and postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Research Program “Media of History – History of Media” at the Bauhaus University of Weimar. In 2012 he was awarded a fellowship of the International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. From 2013 to 2014 he was head of a research project on East German Student Films based at the University for Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” and funded by the German Research Foundation.

Ebbrecht-Hartmann is author of three German monographs on German-Israeli film history, cinematic narration of the Holocaust and the filmmaker Romuald Karmakar; co-editor of three German anthologies on emotions and film perception, East German documentary cinema and contemporary German cinema; and contributed numerously to journals, collections and online-publications in German, English, French and Hebrew.

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Adv. Yael Ezrati

Adv Yael Eezraty

Conflict Research

Yael teaches mediation at the Swiss Center in the Hebrew University. She is a partner and joint manager of Goshrim mediation center.  Professional mediator since 2006, practicing and instructing mediators.

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Worked in a community mediation center in Jerusalem as coordinator of unique programs of mediation and special needs, employment, the elderly and restorative justice. Formerly a manager of an aviation and tourism services company. LLB (Hebrew University), M.A. in Conflict Research and Resolution (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

Yael currently coordinates a novice restorative justice project at the Mosaica center in Jerusalem and chairs a pioneering practicum program for divorce mediators.

Her areas of interest and expertise are community mediation, restorative justice, family disputes and conflict resolution mechanisms among immigrant groups

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Dmitry Epstein

Dr. Dmitry Epstein

The Department of Communication and Journalism
Federmann School of Public Policy and Governance
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Federmann School of Public Policy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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His research focuses on digital policy, internet governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and the social impacts of technology.
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Carmit Fenton

Adv Carmit Fenton

Conflict Research

Carmit Fenton completd her LL.B (Cum Laude) at the Hebrew University Law School (1987) and her LL.M (Cum Laude) at the Law School combined with History studies (1994). She became member of the Israel Bar at 1988. During her professional career at the public service in various senior roles, she decided to focus on A.D.R. studies, including completion of courses on the subject at Harvard University Law School.

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She is also alumni of the Salzburg Seminar.

She has been lecturer at the Hebrew University Law School since 1998 and focuses on Mediation courses since 2000.

Carmit Fenton teaches and taught  Mediation and Negotiation and State Audit Laws  at the Law School, and Public Mediation at the Conflict research, Management and Resolution Program and the Public Policy second-degree program. Since 2000 she focuses on Mediation and Public Mediation, teaching and practicing as a Mediator.

She was also Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Israeli Mediators Association and member of the Mediation and ADR Committee and Institute of the Israel Bar, as well as member of the Ethics Revision Committee of the Bar and a member of the Public Commission for Protection of Privacy at the Ministry of Justice.

Carmit Fenton's areas of research are Alternative (or Appropriate) Dispute Resolution and Public Mediation.

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Prof. Itai Fishendler

Prof. Itay Fischhendler

Department of Geography

Prof. Itay Fischhendler research interests focus on environmental conflict resolution; natural resources management and governance and decision making under conditions of political and environmental uncertainties.

Tal Orian Harel

Tal Orian Harel

Conflict Research
Room 3515, Social Sciences
Tal Orian Harel is a scholar whose research focuses on political polarization, political discourse on social media, and the psychology of intergroup conflict in contested societies. She holds a B.A. in Psychology and Middle Eastern Studies and an M.A. in Conflict Resolution from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Tal has served as a research fellow at the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution and at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Her work investigates how the Israeli‑Palestinian conflict and domestic ideological divides interact and influence public discourse and social media environments.
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Ibrahim Hazboun

Dr. Ibrahim Hazboun

Dr. Ibrahim Hazboun is a researcher whose work focuses on the lived experiences of Palestinian communities under conditions of conflict, marginalization, and socio‑political exclusion.

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His research examines how individuals and communities navigate daily life, crises, and systemic pressures—including public health challenges such as the COVID‑19 pandemic—within complex geopolitical contexts. Dr. Hazboun’s work combines in‑depth qualitative methods to shed light on resilience, agency, and social processes among conflict‑affected populations.

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Adv. Yael Ilany

Dr. Adv. Yael Ilany

Conflict Research

Yael Ilany, Adv. is a lecturer in The Swiss Center for conflict Research, Management and resolution, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2006.

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Her fields of interest are Labor law and mediation. She is currently studying PhD program in Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland in the field of Labor law. Subject of research: "Factors influencing compensation for Wrongful Dismissal." She studied International Law (EU Law) in Amsterdam University, The Netherlands and received Master of Law. LLB received from Tel Aviv University. She is a Mediator since 1998, taught mediation and the practicum in meditation. Lectures in other institutes.

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Dr, Maya Khanoff

Dr. Maya Kahanoff

Dialogue Program Coordinator
Conflict Research
Dr. Maya Kahanoff is a lecturer in the Conflict Research, Management and Resolution Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Anthropology from the Hebrew University and has extensive experience facilitating dialogue and peacebuilding initiatives between diverse social groups in Israel, including interreligious and intercultural encounters.
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Dr. Kahanoff’s research interests include social conflict transformation, intergroup recognition and dialogue, and peace education. Her work bridges academic theory and practical engagement in fostering shared understanding and collaboration among groups in conflict.
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Dr. Neta Kligler

Prof. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Department of Communication and journalism
Social Science, room 5411

Her research focuses on youth civic and political participation in the context of the changing media environment. She is particularly interested in the ways that young people, who often feel disconnected by traditional political institutions, can find voice and agency in the context of digital participation.

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Her current research projects include a theoretical elaboration of “Alternative Citizenship Models” as an emerging paradigm, and an examination of informal political talk and disagreement in WhatsApp groups. Neta has published in leading communication journals, including New Media & Society, International Journal of Communication, European Journal of Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Social Media + Society and more. She is a co-author on the book “By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism” (New York University Press, 2016).

Kligler-Vilenchik’s work has received Top Paper awards from the AEJMC Cultural and Critical Studies Division and the ICA Mass Communication division. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University ofSouthern California, where she was the recipient of a Fulbright doctoral student grant.

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Dr. Lior Lehrs

The Departments of International Relations
The Swiss Center for Conflict Resolution

Dr. Lior Lehrs is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations and The Swiss Center for Conflict Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include conflicts, peacemaking, diplomacy and mediation, and he works on various conflict areas, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the Balkans.

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The journals in which he has published include International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, Cooperation and Conflict, and Peacebuilding, and his book Unofficial Peace Diplomacy, was published in 2022 by Manchester University Press. Dr. Lehrs was a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University, and a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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Dr. Yiftach Ron

Dr. Yiftach Ron

Academic Projects Coordinator and Methodological Advisor
Conflict Research
social Science, room 5825

Yiftach Ron is a lecturer in The Swiss Center for conflict Research, Management and resolution and in the Department of communication, and research Fellow in the Harry S. Truman Research Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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His current main interests include processes of intergroup communication, collective and personal narratives in conflict, discourse, media and psychology related aspects of intergroup conflict, dialogue, conflict resolution and peacebuilding

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Dr. Hananel Rosenbreg

Dr. Hananel Rosenberg

conflict Research, Management and resolution

Dr. Hananel Rosenberg is a Lecturer in The Swiss Center for conflict Research, Management and resolution, a Lecturer in the the Department of communication and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow inThe Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the advancement of peace.

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His main research interests are the psychology and sociology of mobile phone usage and media usage among minority social groups.

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Dr. Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt

Prof. Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt

Department of Communication and Journalism
Social Science, room 5423

Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (Ph.D. 2011) is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on cultural and political dimensions of journalism from a comparative perspective, media and conflict, mediated memory, and the intersection of journalism, political communication and popular culture.

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She is currently working on two major research projects: a comparative study of news temporalities (funded by the Israeli Science Foundation) and an EU FP7 collaborative project on the role of the media in conflict and peace building (INFOCORE). She is also member of the COST Action on Populist Political Communication in Europe.

Her work has received international recognition, including the International Communication Association's Outstanding Article Award (2014), the inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award of the International Communication Association's Political Communication Division (2013), the ICA Political Communication Best Article of the Year Award (2010), and several Top Paper awards from the Journalism Studies Division of ICA. She received her PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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