<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear CaMP readers,</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We
 will be chatting with Yael Warshel tomorrow
about her new book, Experiencing the Israel-Palestinean Conflict: Children, Peace Communication, and Socialization, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">She
 has asked us to read chapter 9 and parts of the introduction.  Please 
read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't
 managed to read everything.  <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The readings can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/54rm8ld5ha94iix/Warshel.Experiencing.the.Israeli-Palestinian.Conflict.2021.Chapter%209.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/54rm8ld5ha94iix/Warshel.Experiencing.the.Israeli-Palestinian.Conflict.2021.Chapter%209.pdf?dl=0</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, September 24th, and can be </span></p>
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<a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(14,113,235);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px" target="_blank">https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ilana</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">From Yael:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p></div></div>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"" align="center"><b><span style="color:black">Warshel, Yael. (2021). </span></b><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/experiencing-the-israelipalestinian-conflict/696329534C17D1B0BA9243FE02A7D0C8" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b><i>Experiencing
the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and
Socialization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</i></b></a><b><span style="color:black"></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b>“<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/experiencing-the-israelipalestinian-conflict/introduction/14ECA5D4AA097979672C93656A5C4C32" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Introduction:
Peace Communication and Why Study Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street’s Media
Intervention Model?”</a></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Read pp. 1-8 and 59-61 that outline’s the book's aims and
organization, and helps situate chapter 9.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The introduction explores the
emerging subdiscipline of Peace Communication (PeaceComm), beginning with a
discussion about the history of the practice, and the author’s ongoing quest to
introduce a subdiscipline, dedicated to assessing and evaluating the critical
efficacy of the practice. A methodological template for comparative global
assessment and evaluation is offered, stressing the need to prioritize
political conflict data and conflict zones-based context analyses, given that
political conflict is caused by collective grievances related to “group”-level
disadvantages and perceived disadvantages, not individual prejudice. The
template is operationalized through the assessment of <i>Sesame Street</i>
interventions into the Israeli Palestinian ethnopolitical nationalist conflict,
drawn from field work in 2001, 2004-2006, and 2011. Best practices and other
interdisciplinary contributions for practitioners are recommended, to
understand conflict intractability where socialization, culture, and
inter-“group” (mediated and interpersonal) communication intersect in
glocalized conflict zone contexts, and in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
specifically. The interventions targeted children, who comprise the majority
within conflict zones. The model used, mediated contact effects, is one of
seven models and six subtypes of PeaceComm practiced historically worldwide the
author has previously categorized, and is one of those most in need of
PeaceComm scholarship, with potential to succeed but scarce evidence collected
about its efficacy.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><b><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/experiencing-the-israelipalestinian-conflict/pursuing-equality/02846798E4AA4CA2E7ACB9E63F2F308E" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Chapter
9 "Pursuing Equality: Arab/Palestinian Israeli Children’s Schematic
Interpretations of Constructs of Opposing National and Civic Identities”</a></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="color:black">Chapter 9 of the book </span>depicts the community, socialization and
narratives of Arab/Palestinian Israeli children of Uhm Al-Fahm,<span style="color:black"> from where Warshel sampled the
Arab/Palestinian audience for her study of theirs, Palestinian and Jewish
Israeli children’s reception of Israeli and Palestinian <i>Sesame Street</i>,
to illustrate the assessment of a peace communication intervention.</span> This
large ethnopolitically Arab city in Israel has often been viewed by Jewish
Israelis negatively, as the “seat of Palestinian nationalism;” and by
Palestinians, also negatively, as “home to ’48 Arabs who did not resist
Zionists” but are culturally and politically key to pursuing justice for
Palestinians. From the inside, locals see inequity of resources, and police as
monitoring and targeting them. <span style="color:black">Their concerns
with police policies and practices, including as appeared largely to not
trickle down to children, are discussed in this chapter. </span>Fahmouwee
children’s interactions revolved largely around other Arab/Palestinian
Israelis. The majority did not position themselves as the conflict’s victim,
unlike the Palestinian and Jewish Israeli children; and defined themselves as a
third sub-state identity, “Arab Muslim Fahmouwees.” <span style="color:black">By documenting
the far less explored lives of Arab/Palestinian Israelis, this chapter gives
voice to these children’s positionality,<i> </i>serving to demonstrate how they
navigate their daily life through Palestinian and Jewish Israeli conceptions
that the coexistence of their two identities is a biological impossibility.
Importantly, and as contrasts with the one-fifth of the population of Israel
they constitute, Arab/Palestinian Israelis under 18, specifically, are
approaching one-third of the that population range. Resources however are
allocated on the basis of the former statistic, yet the latter re-frame questions
about who is an Israeli citizen.</span> Despite their awareness of “fighting,”
these children also painted a picture of normalcy. Though their everyday
conflict zone experiences also encoded them to erase their shared others in <i>Sesame
Street</i>, theirs was a relatively more nuanced interpretation, suggesting
that Arab/Palestinian Israeli children are uniquely open to the possibility of
being moved by the series’ aims. Still, they also normalized and reproduced the
violence, reinserting themselves into the status of state minority through
their identity negotiations and protest play patterns. For them too, like the
other sets of children, conflict resolution is achieved through extreme
negative means, by “converting Jews to Islam.” <span style="color:black">The divergence
of their extreme political opinions, despite whether they more readily might be
moved by the series to “like” Jewish Israelis, demonstrates the book’s
argument that PeaceComm must emphasize changing policy relevant political
beliefs, given underlying causes for armed political conflict.</span></p>





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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Yael Warshel</p></div></div></div></div>