Welcome to season 2 of Info Under the Radar. New topics, new guests with your familiar hosts.

In the third episode of this new season, we are talking about something which everyone talks about but no one really knows how to do it. We are talking about establishing peace in conflicted regions, be it Israel-Palestine or in Afghanistan, Myanmar, or any other regions with conflicts.

For this special topic, our guest is Prof. Eran Halperin. Eran is a professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his research involves understanding how to resolve inter-group conflicts in highly conflicted regions and establish peace. Prof. Eran is a perfect guest to talk about this topic not only because of his work in the field but also because of his personal story.

(04:55) - Eran’s personal story, from being an Israeli soldier in special forces to a peace and conflict researcher

(12:10) - Is conflict a primal instinct for Humans?

(15:05) - How do different types of conflicts look like?

(26:05) - How do stronger and weaker groups in a conflict can feel differently about the conflict?

(34:30) - How does Eran justify his own biasness coming from Israel and working in the area of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

(39:00) - Pause

(40:00) - How to shift the mindset of people living in conflict from fear, anger, and other negative emotions to Hope?

(45:05) - How to bring people from different extremes to meet in the middle to create peace?

(60:00) - Funny story of an Israeli and a Palestinian’s interaction in the US and how people in the UK are changing their perception of Islam based on their view of footballer Mohammad Salah

(63:30) - How does the process of conflict resolution start at the ground and how to scale it?

(68:00) - Process of peacebuilding in the active violent areas such as Afghanistan, Yemen, etc.

(75:10) - Are there any factors that could determine if a conflict can be resolved for good?

Reach out to Eran on his Twitter: @eranh75_era (https://twitter.com/eranh75_eran)

You can find all the work Eran is doing on his website: https://www.eranhalperin.com/

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