Professor Nurit Shnabel is a psychologist at Tel Aviv University, who researches the way in which empathy can diminish the sense of exclusive victimhood that each side feels in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Some of her findings could be leveraged by leaders and other members of both societies to help find a way toward peace and reconciliation.

Links:

• Haaretz newspaper recently published a story about Shnabel’s research, under the ambitious headline How to Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, According to Psychology Research.
• A newspaper story with an image of the rabbit-duck optical illusion