As we wrote about the last Israel trip, noting the complications and contradictions of the country are crucial to also understanding it. On the 65th anniversary of Israeli independence, this blog post from student Kristina Minor discusses the importance and implications of Zionism: Israel is by far the most complicated place I have ever been. … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–It’s Still Complicated
At the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting last week, Senator George Mitchell spoke about Northern Ireland and how important hope and patience is for a peace process. On the other hand, and contrary to much that we read about in negotiation, he did not argue that trust is needed. Several of our speakers in Israel spoke … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–is trust necessary?
Hi all—lovely to see so many of you last week at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference! Just to follow up from my mini-presentation in the morning of the LEC, I wanted to send around live links to the two teaching materials I shared. The first is the article on teaching the TKI and … Continue reading DYNAD Exercise
From Glen Parker at Cardozo, below is an announcement about a writing competition in conflict resolution open to students in the Tri-State area or from that region: The ACR-GNY has organized a Student Writing Competition to coincide with its 2013 Annual Conference being held on June 20, 2013. The goal of the competition is to solicit scholarly … Continue reading New York Area Writing Competition
Tonight begins Holocaust Remembrance Day–Yom Hashoah–and so today’s post is from Brendan Byrne on visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial–a regular stop for visitors to Israel including the President this past month. Yad Vashem is the official memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust that took 6 million lives and left physical and emotional … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Yad Vashem
This year traveling up to the Golan Heights was a little more fraught with tension–after all, UN peacekeepers had been held for three days by Syrian rebels and the Syrian civil war made the historically quiet area more active. It also ended up being the location of one of the most amazing learning experiences of … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–The Golan Heights
As part of the Israel trip, we met with different groups working on coexistance. One group–Encounter–focuses on bringing American and Israeli Jews into the West Bank to meet with Palestinians. They describe their work thus: Encounter provides the only opportunity for mainstream American Jewish leaders to visit Palestinian territories in the West Bank. On our … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Encounter & Parent’s Circle
Easily the worst part of the trip for me was at the beginning when one of my students was detained by Israeli immigration upon our entry to the country. Although it was an experience that we had discussed as a possibility (she had visited grandparents in Pakistan and had the stamp in her passport), it still came … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Too Muslim or Not Muslim Enough?
Much as I did in 2011, I will be posting some of the student reflections on the trip to Israel as the best way to reflect on the conflict. I could brag about the students–what the students have learned, how being actually there is so important, how proud they made me with their insight and … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Introduction to the Old City
So without the amazing Professor Hinshaw along on my Israel trip this past week, there was no live blogging. Now that I am back, having survived traveling with 32 law students to Israel last week (just in time to lay the groundwork for the President’s visit this week!), I plan on blogging about the trip … Continue reading Not-Quite-Live Israel Blog 2013–Conflict Sells
