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Nadim Rouhana

Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies

Education

Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Graduate Student Associate, Harvard University
PhD, Wayne State University
MA, University of Western Australia
BA, University of Haifa

Professional Activities

Former Henry Hart Rice Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University; visiting teaching roles held at Harvard University, The Fletcher School, Tel Aviv University, Boston College, Najah National University and The University of Massachusetts at Boston; founding Director of Mada al-Carmel: Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa, Israel.

Courses

Fall 2009

• DHP D228 - Protracted Social Conflict: Dynamics, Major Issues and Possible Consequences

Research Interests

Faculty Research Profile - “We have to be very careful about symmetricizing conflicts. We also have to allow the parties themselves, including the low-power party, to define what issues concern them most.”

Selected Publications

• Rouhana, N. N. (2008). Reconciling history and equal citizenship in Israel: Democracy and the politics of historical denial. In Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir (Eds.). The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• April 2008 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair. “The Future of Dialogue and Problem Solving Workshops”. A one-day workshop held at Point of View, George Mason University.
• January 2008 Exile and Return in Israeli and Palestinian Discourse: between Division and Coexistence. A paper presented at conference on “Di/Visions: Culture and Politics of the Middle East.” The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany.
• January 2008 Participant in the Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar. The Moral Imperative in the Middle East. Yale Law School. Istanbul, Turkey.
• November 2007 Organizer and Co-Chair. “Towards Defining the State of the Field: A Research Agenda for Conflict Resolution.” A one-day workshop organized by Point of View at George Mason University.
• Rouhana, N.N. (Ed.). (2007). Attitudes of Palestinians in Israel on Key Political and Social Issues: Survey Research Results. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel. http://www.mada-research.org/publications/sruan2.htm.
• Rouhana, N.N. (Ed.). (2007). Supplemental Readings to the Haifa Declaration: Israel, from a Jewish State to a Democratic State. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel. (Arabic). http://www.mada-research.org.
• Peled, Y. & Rouhana N. N. (2007). Transitional justice and the right of return of the Palestinian refugees. In E. Benvenisti; C. Gans; S. Hanafi (Eds.). Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. 8, 141-158.
• Rouhana, N. N. & Saabneh, A. (2007). The question of equality between Arabs and Jews in Israel. In N. N. Rouhana (Ed.). Attitudes of Palestinians in Israel on Key Political and Social Issues: Survey Research Results. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel.
• Rouhana. N. N. & Saabneh, A. (2007). The relationship of the Palestinian minority with the state of Israel. In N. N. Rouhana (Ed.). Attitudes of Palestinians in Israel on Key Political and Social Issues: Survey Research Results. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel.
• Rouhana, N. N. & Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2007). The right of return and the internally displaced Palestinians (IDPs) in Israel. In N. N. Rouhana (Ed.). Attitudes of Palestinians in Israel on Key Political and Social Issues: Survey Research Results. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel.
• Rouhana, N. N. (2006). Zionism’s encounter with the Palestinians: The dynamics of force, fear, and extremism. In R. I. Rotberg (Ed.). Israeli and Palestinian narratives of conflict: History’s double helix. Bloomingdale, IN: Indiana University Press.
• Rouhana, N. N. (2006). Jewish and democratic? The price of a national self-deception. Journal of Palestine studies, 35, 64-74.
• Rouhana, N. N. & Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (2006). Force, privilege, and the range of tolerance. In K. Lahad & H. Herzog (Eds.). Knowledge and silence: on mechanism of denial in Israeli society. Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute/Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. (Hebrew).
• Glick, P.,…, Rouhana, N. N., …, & Yzerbyt, V. (2006). Anti-American sentiment and America’s perceived intent to dominate: An 11-nation study. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. 28.
• Rouhana, N.N. (Ed.). (2003). Voting Without Voice: The Palestinian Minority in the Israeli Parliamentary Elections. Haifa: Mada al-Carmel. (Arabic).
• Rouhana, N.N. (1997). Palestinian citizens in an ethnic Jewish state: Identities in conflict. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 312 pp.