1st Edition

Hope and Contemporary Israeli Peace Movements The Emotional Dimension of Collective Peace Politics

By Liv Halperin Copyright 2026
158 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book investigates and compares two contemporary Israeli peace movements through the angle of collective emotions, and specifically of hope. Drawing on empirical qualitative research combining interviews with Jewish and Arab-Palestinian activists and ethnographic work, the work provides unique documentation of the birth and development of Standing Together (a mixed-gender peace movement)... Read more

Acknowledgments

List of tables and figures

Chapter 1: Introduction 

Chapter 2: Standing Together: Intersectional Politics, Bilingualism and Jewish–Arab Partnership 

Chapter 3: Women Wage Peace: Non-partisan and Positive, Maternalist Politics of Peace 

Chapter 4: What Hope Means for Israeli Peace Activists 

Chapter 5: How Standing Together and Women Wage Peace Trigger Hope 

Chapter 6: Conclusion 

Appendix: List of Israeli/Palestinian activists groups/movements mentioned in the book

Index

 

Biography

Liv Halperin is Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Senior Advisor for Peacebuilding during Peace Negotiations at PeaceWomen across the Globe. She is a feminist peacebuilding practitioner and scholar, whose work and research focus on peace, conflict transformation, non-violent resistance and gender in Israel/Palestine, and was Director of Research and Policy at the Israeli policy think tank ECF until 2023. She holds a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.