The Fieldbuilding Journal

The Fieldbuilding
Journal.

From the field

Ali Abu Awwad:
‘I promise you: there is enough humanity on the other side’

Rhea Arora | November 16, 2021

Resolutions Will Not Build Peace:
Meredith Rothbart’s Testimony Before the UN Security Council (8869)

Meredith Rothbart | October 3, 2021

From the field

NOTES

Escaping Lockdown, Pursuing Israeli-Palestinian Peace: My Covid-Era Internship Experience with Peace Now

Having been raised in America by two Hebrew-speaking parents on the writings of Amos Oz, the Shir LaShalom ("A Song for Peace"), and on the legacy of pro-peace Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, I deferred my acceptance to Cornell University in 2015 to explore the barriers to Israeli-Palestinian peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

EDITORIAL

Why Fieldbuilding?

In the enduring absence of direct negotiations (the "peace process"), peacebuilding in our context is in need of serious reevaluation. Merely bringing Israelis and Palestinians together cannot be the full extent of our tactics and strategies.

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Undergraduates have embraced social media to take sides on Israel-Palestine. Should we?

Without the involvement of more moderate voices, more ideological and hardline opinions will continue to fill social media with antisemitic and Islamophobic content. In this highly polarized environment, a lack of investment in and preparation for political peace will lead to the failure of any political agreement or treaty, Rosenberg warned.

FIELD

Unlocking Transformation: Why People-to-People Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine is more urgent than ever

While the devastation and death inflicted by these asymmetric military exchanges is – of course – tragic, merely focusing on the recurring saber-rattling between Hamas and Israel fails to look beyond the most palpable symptoms of the ongoing struggle for genuine equality, self-determination and peace in Israel/Palestine.

FIELD

An Imperative for the Hybrid Model in Peacebuilding: Moving Beyond Dialogue at Tech2Peace

Where entrepreneurship and technology intersect, there is an oft-obscure space that presents opportunities for peacebuilding. In Israel-Palestine, this space is harnessed by organizations that actively bring together Israelis and Palestinians in pursuit of a peace that relies on conditions beyond the conventional foundations of mutual understanding and co-existence.

FIELD

How to Support People-to-People Peacebuilding: Meredith Rothbart’s Testimony to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee

Through passing MEPPA into law, you have demonstrated an understanding that peace between the Israelis and Palestinians must be built strategically, between the people themselves who are at war with one another, living right next to each other.

FIELD

How to Successfully Build Peace Without Saying You Are Building Peace – The Case of 50:50 Startups

Activities falling into the category of 'peacebuilding', especially in the protracted and ever-changing context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, are increasingly difficult to categorize. While the focus of peacebuilding before the Oslo Accords revolved around intergroup dialogue and education, the events that occurred since then have pushed peacebuilders to reconsider their means.

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From Student to Activist: Lessons from Closing the Gap

In May of 2021, at the end of my junior year in college, I published a book titled Closing the Gap: Sustainable Infrastructure to Save the World. Writing this book was a year's journey of learning about one of our world's foremost challenges: the global infrastructure gap.