The trap of intractable conflicts:

ASERI is pleased to present the volume

The trap of intractable conflicts. The Israeli-Palestinian case

by Daniel Bar-Tal
Franco Angeli Editore

Monday 17 March 2025, 5.30 p.m.
in ASERI (Via San Vittore 18)

The event will take place in English and exclusively in presence

Introduces:

Riccardo Redaelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Speakers:

Daniel Bar-Tal, University of Tel Aviv (Emeritus)
Paolo Maggiolini, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
 

The Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 and the war that followed caused trauma in Israel and the world. The book explains how Israeli Jewish society had sunk in the last twenty years into a comfort zone, with a process of collective removal of the reality in which it found itself: the narratives inculcated by political leaders, the author explains, have forged the consciousness of Israeli Jewish society by presenting half-truths about the past, concealing the present and describing a partial vision of the future.
The Trap of Intractable Conflicts explains how the psychology of the occupation of the West Bank and the ideas underlying it have corrupted Israeli Jewish society to the point of diverting its democratic development with the rise of an authoritarian regime marked by extremist nationalism and religious fanaticism that has been among the causes of the war in Gaza. 

The author:
Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor Emeritus of Political Psychology at Tel Aviv University. He is one of the most respected scholars of the socio-psychological barriers underlying intractable conflicts and on the infrastructures that promote peace education. Over the course of his fifty-year academic career, he has become one of the leading experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has published more than 25 books and more than 250 academic articles in scientific journals and collective essays. He was president of the International Society of Political Psychology and has received numerous international awards for his research and for transforming it into Israeli-Palestinian cooperation projects. 

Participation is free upon registration. 
Registration will take place at the conference venue
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