A brown bag lunch with Professor Dan Bar On and Professor Sami  Adwan, co-directors of Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME).

Light Refreshments will be served.

Prof. Adwan and Prof. Bar On of PRIME will discuss their groundbreaking project, "Learning Each Others Historical Narrative".  The project focuses on teachers and schools as the critical force over the long term for changing deeply entrenched and increasingly polarized attitudes on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by engaging teachers on both sides in an entirely new collaborative process for teaching the history of the region.

Dan Bar-On is a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.  Dr. Sami Adwan has been a member of the Faculty of Education at Bethlehem University. They are both co-directors of PRIME, a non-governmental, nonprofit organization established by Palestinian and Israeli researchers with the purpose of pursuing mutual coexistence and peace- building through joint research and outreach activities.

Dr. Adwan and Dr. Bar-On were awarded the Alexander Langer Foundation Prize for their work and their dedication to peace as co-directors of PRIME.  Similar honors were bestowed on them in 2005 when they received the Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize for Peace and the European Association for Education of Adults Prize.