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Partnership Between Arab and Jewish Communities for the Construction of Shared Society Givat Haviva Model Partnership between Arab and Jewish Communities for the Construction of Shared Society Givat Haviva Model Author: Ran Kuttner, Ph.D. Development Team: Yaniv Sagee, Riad Kabha, Yael Ben-Zvi, Orit Meoded, Gazal Abu-Raya Partnership between Arab and Jewish Communities for the Construction of Shared Society Givat Haviva Model Author: Ran Kuttner, Ph.D. Development Team: Yaniv Sagee, Riad Kabha, Yael Ben-Zvi, Orit Meoded, Gazal Abu-Raya Members of the Shared Communities team at Givat Haviva: Yaniv Sagee – Givat Haviva Executive Director, Shared Communities Initiator and Head Riad Kabha – Director of the Jewish-Arab Center for Peace, Shared Communities Originator and Director Ran Kuttner – Academic Advisor, Knowledge Developer and Partnership Facilitator Yael Ben-Zvi – Shared Communities Integrator and Partnership Facilitator Mohammad Darawshe – Givat Haviva Board Member Gazal Abu Raya – Partnership Facilitator Orit Meoded – Community Program Coordinator at Shared Communities Samer Atamneh – Director, Education Department Mara List – Information Management and Youth Delegation Coordinator Ella Eisner – Liaison Coordinator Anhar Masarwa – Director of Gender Equality Center Anat Lidror – Director of the Collaborative Art Center and Peace Gallery Marwa Badran Mjadla – Partnership Facilitator Anat Avrahami Marom – Shared Communities program evaluator The Author Ran Kuttner is a Givat Haviva Academic Advisor and a Senior Lecturer at the International Graduate Program in Peace and Conflict Management Studies at the Haifa University. Until 2013 he was an Associate Professor of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and prior to that a Visiting Scholar at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School for three years. In recent years, as a member of the Givat Haviva team, Ran has facilitated two of its partnerships and advised other facilitators, in addition to developing theoretical and practical knowledge for the Shared Communities program. Ran is also a mediator and mediation instructor who has facilitated dozens of mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution courses and workshops at universities and organizations and for the general public. Editor: Naomi Gluck Uzrad Arabic translation: Odeh Bisharat Editor (Arabic): Hussein Sweiti English translation: Shlomit Cnaan Graphic design and production: Stephanie and Ruti Design © Givat Haviva and Ran Kuttner, December 2019 ISBN 978-965-92616-7-3 This book was made possible by the support of the Robert Bosch Foundation and the New Israel Fund. The contents of this book are the sole responsibility of Givat Haviva and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Robert Bosch Foundation or of the New Israel Fund. Contents Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................... 6 Foreword: Givat Haviva and Its Activities .................................................................................. 8 The Shared Communities Program: A Short Introduction................................................... 12 Part I: Theoretical Background Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 16 The Context within which “Shared Communities” Operates ............................................... 17 From Co-Existence to Shared Society: A Paradigm Shift ...................................................... 23 Dialogue: A Relational Practice .................................................................................................. 28 Stages in Partnership Development ........................................................................................... 34 The Role of Givat Haviva as an Integrator and Backbone Organization ............................ 44 From Representative to Participatory Democracy as an Anchor for Jewish-Arab Partnership ........................................................................................................ 48 For Further Reading ...................................................................................................................... 54 Part II: Shared Communities Program Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 60 The Municipal Circle ..................................................................................................................... 64 Case Histories and What They Can Teach Us .......................................................................... 70 The Community Circle ................................................................................................................. 86 Case Histories and What They Can Teach Us .......................................................................... 89 The Educational Circle ................................................................................................................105 Case Histories and What They Can Teach Us ........................................................................ 115 The Course and the Stages of Partnership-Constructing Work .........................................121 Stage 1: Contact with Municipalities, Starting the Process and Building The Program’s Foundation ........................................................................................................ 125 Stage 2: Ongoing Work in Working Teams ............................................................................ 155 Stage 3: Transition to the Program’s Second Year .................................................................. 164 Stage 4: The Third and Fourth Years ....................................................................................... 177 Part III: Regional Work Regionality: A Theoretical Introduction .................................................................................192 Regional Programs and Forums Initiated and Facilitated by Givat Haviva ....................197 Conclusion: Lessons Learned and Challenges for the Future ............................220 Executive Summary The purpose of this book is to present the Shared Communities program to the professional community, and contribute to the body of knowledge that informs the endeavor towards a shared society. For the past decade Shared Communities has been Givat Haviva’s flagship program, developed and implemented to promote partnership and equality at a time of dissatisfaction with the idea of “coexistence”, and a growing preference for tackling the challenges of building and sustaining a shared society in Israel. The book presents a theoretical and practical model in the form of a multilayered four-year program that facilitates sustainable partnerships between pairs of neighboring Jewish and Arab communities, headed by local authorities, as a basis to developing a concept of shared region. The vision that drives the program is that by using daily experience to exemplify the mutual benefits of cooperation, and by advancing both differing and shared interests, it will lay the foundations for a shared future and a shared society. This book presents the accumulated challenges, successes, experiences and insights gained through Givat Haviva’s work for the past decade. The book examines Givat Haviva’s activity in the Wadi A’ra region. It aims to make our model accessible to policy makers and to the public, in the hope that its message will resonate and serve as a basis for a shared society throughout the country. We invite the various national and local government agencies to make use of this model, expanding it or adapting it also to other regions. The first section of this book is devoted to the theoretical principles of Shared Communities. It lays out the challenges inherent in building a Jewish-Arab partnership, including the transition from coexistence to shared society. It demonstrates that developing a partnership-oriented consciousness is congruent with cultivating a profoundly dialogic mindset. It describes the progression from participation through collaboration to partnership. It discusses Givat Haviva’s role as an integrating organization, which draws many organizations and players – from the public, the business and the non-profit sectors – into municipal-led partnership-building processes. It also draws attention to the challenge of balancing bottom-up and top-down processes. The second section presents Givat Haviva’s working model for partnership facilitation. The first three chapters of this section describe the three circles that constitute the Shared Communities program – municipal, community, and educational – illustrated by practical examples and actual dilemmas from partnerships facilitated by Givat Haviva. The fourth chapter sets out a structured working format, a detailed multi-stage plan for facilitating a partnership through a four-year process. The third section discusses regionally-oriented action as an anchor for creating Jewish-Arab partnership and a basis for a cohesive, equal, shared society on the regional level. It describes the 6 concept of regionality and the range of regional programs and initiatives undertaken by Givat Haviva in order to construct regional consciousness and cohesion. This book presents a multilayered, innovative theoretical model based on an analysis of five partnerships supported by Givat Haviva (and two potential partnership projects which it recommended not to attempt at this time), ten test
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