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Middle East student dialogue: As an expert in deep conflict, what I’ve learned about making conversation possible

Middle East student dialogue: As an expert in deep conflict, what I’ve learned about making conversation possible

On a dreary winter evening in a university building basement in March 2015, I stood before some 100 students for a dialogue on the conflict in the Middle East. University of British Columbia (UBC) undergraduates were voting in a referendum to decide whether their student union should boycott products and divest from companies that support Israel’s occupation […]…