Peace Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship
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Peace Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship

Life Stories from Israelis and Palestinians

9781035315550 Edward Elgar Publishing
Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Professor of Organizational Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tammar B. Zilber, Professor of Organization Theory, Jerusalem School of Business, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haneen Sameer Magadlah (PhD), Faculty member, Department of Educational Studies, Al-Qasemi Academic College of Education, Baqa Algrbiah, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, (PhD), Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Faculty member, Department of Educational Studies, David Yellin Academic College of Education and teaching fellow, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Publication Date: 2023 ISBN: 978 1 03531 555 0 Extent: 264 pp
This timely book comprises detailed personal narratives of entrepreneurs who have worked towards peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It begins by offering an innovative framework of analysis based on scientific knowledge about social entrepreneurs, defining ‘peace entrepreneurship’ and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and provides a short history of the conflict in the region.

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This timely book comprises detailed personal narratives of entrepreneurs who have worked towards peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It begins by offering an innovative framework of analysis based on scientific knowledge about social entrepreneurs, defining ‘peace entrepreneurship’ and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and provides a short history of the conflict in the region.

The book focuses on 11 life stories of Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs who have strived for peace through social ventures. Chapters discuss the various forms of social activism that peace entrepreneurs have pursued, the challenges that they have faced and the motivations behind their ventures. The authors conclude by considering the similarities and differences across the stories, offering insights into what drives people to act as peace entrepreneurs and what sustains their activities in the face of ongoing conflict.

Documenting rousing and inspirational life narratives, this book is crucial for scholars and researchers of social entrepreneurship who are searching for new avenues of inquiry into ventures in a conflict context. It will also provide motivational reading for other practitioners of peace entrepreneurship, as well as policymakers working with social entrepreneurs in conflict zones.
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Contributors: Bassam Aramin, Huda Abu Arqoub, Khaled Abu Awwad, Gershon Baskin, Eliaz Cohen, Yakir Englander, Yitzhak Frankenthal, Hadassah Froman, Ghadeer Hani, Amin Khalaf, Shiri Levinas, Haneen Sameer Magadlah, Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Tammar B. Zilber
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Contents:

Introduction: peace entrepreneurship, life narratives, and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1
Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Tammar B.
Zilber, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, and Haneen Sameer Magadlah
1 Jewish–Arabic collaboration through education 17
Amin Khalaf
2 No one can conquer you because when you are free inside,
you live in peace 29
Bassam Aramin
3 Peace, a mission for generations 50
Eliaz Cohen
4 A Jewish radical 68
Gershon Baskin
5 Small initiatives with great impact 88
Ghadeer Hani
6 The freedom to choose 102
Hadassah Froman
7 No one can occupy my heart, my mind, and my identity 113
Huda Abu Arqoub
8 To solve the puzzle 126
Khaled Abu Awwad
9 To make a change, we must be willing to change 143
Shiri Levinas
10 A life of peace is not whole: peace is not whole – it is broken 163
Yakir Englander
11 I am me because Arik was Arik 181
Yitzhak Frankenthal
12 Discussion: peace entrepreneurship – insights and reflections 202
Haneen Sameer Magadlah, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz,
Yosepha Tabib-Calif, Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, and
Tammar B. Zilber

Glossary 223
References 243
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