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		<title>When Identities Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also published in Columbia University&#8217;s ICCCR blog. A great deal of our most difficult conflicts appear to be identity-based: Israeli vs. Palestinian, Democrat vs. Republican, Christian vs. Muslim, and so on. Identities are pitted against one another in a win-lose fashion. &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/when-identities-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2680&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nominate Orphaned Land to 2013 Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heavy Metal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my petition to nominate the Israeli metal band Orphaned Land to the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Orphaned Land has managed to create a reality of coexistence in the region that has escaped politicians and peacemakers alike. This petition is &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/nominate-orphaned-land-to-2013-nobel-peace-prize/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2679&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israel, Iran and the Cuban Missile Crises.</title>
		<link>http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/israel-iran-and-the-cuban-missile-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuban Missile Crises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Al Jazeera, Trita Parsi and I explore both the limitations and potential of using the Cuban Missile Crises as an analogy to the current situation between Israel and Iran. &#8220;Watching the conflict between Iran and Israel escalate, it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/israel-iran-and-the-cuban-missile-crises/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2674&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Illness Within.</title>
		<link>http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/an-illness-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 01:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avri Gilad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest in Haaretz. A look at the importance of language and metaphors in the recent anti-immigrant rhetoric in Israel. Sometimes (if I may paraphrase Nietzsche), one needs to opine with a hammer. On the day that the first, and &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/an-illness-within/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2656&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Together Now</title>
		<link>http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/all-together-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chip Heath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective effervescence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time scholars have speculated that coordinated activities between individuals – dancing, singing, walking, and exercising – increases both cooperation and a sense of group cohesion. As early as 1915, sociologist Emile Durkheim spoke of “collective effervescence”, a &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/all-together-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2647&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Heavy Metal Save the World?</title>
		<link>http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/can-heavy-metal-save-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest on the way in which Orphaned Land, Israel&#8217;s biggest heavy metal band, is transforming relations between Muslims and Jews in the MENA. Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely of people. In &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/can-heavy-metal-save-the-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2635&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Doves Cry</title>
		<link>http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/but-are-we-rational/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 05:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Bias]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Kahneman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is said that wars begin in the minds of men. Considering the people charged with running Israel and Iran today, this is indeed a frightening prospect. But it’s also a chilling insight into the workings of the human mind &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/but-are-we-rational/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2613&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amin Maalouf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, (1996) French-Lebanese novelist Amin Maalouf argues that group violence is a consequence of over-simplified “tribal” identities and that its antidote lies in awareness/recognition of self complexity. &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/complexity-matters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2608&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awakening to Women: The Nobel Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roi Ben-Yehuda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leymah Gbowee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do women make peace in a different voice? Peter Coleman and I explore some essential peacebuilding lessons culled from the work of recent Noble Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee. As always, if the spirit moves you, please share with your &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/awakening-to-women-the-nobel-effect/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2595&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac to Sacrifice Abraham?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Aziz Abu Sarah, regular columnist for 972, published a piece based on a drasha he gave in a synagogue for Rosh Hashana. Its an important sermon that is worth your time. I make a small cameo in &#8230; <a href="http://roiword.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/isaac-to-sacrifice-abraham/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=roiword.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2112804&#038;post=2584&#038;subd=roiword&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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