Part of the confusion and the natural recoil to talking about the possibility of peace on the 'day after' the war in Gaza stems from a binary and also naïve understanding of the concept.

A chorus of Israeli and Palestinian teens won hearts, applause and a chance at $1 million with a successful 'America's Got Talent' audition.

Across social media, posts can fly up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, and they are often an unpredictable mix of true, fake, out of context and straight propaganda.

In a land torn apart by conflict, hatred and violence the Tent of Nations, is a monument to the idea that Arabs and Jews can live together in harmony.

Profiles of courage and belief, resiliency and hope, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ramallah…

Profiles of courage and belief, resiliency and hope, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ramallah…

[Zahra Sakkejha] and about 25 members of the LA support group for Standing Together, an Israeli social movement of Jews and Arabs demanding political and social equality and reconciliation, constituted a small, third group at UCLA protests…

Peace activists share why it is so hard to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a campus event.

[A] survey found that 83% of Arab workers and 72% of Jewish workers reported the state of relations between Arabs and Jews at their workplace to be good or very good.

The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES)… has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a group of academics, citing their ‘groundbreaking work in the fields of dialogue and diplomacy, climate engagement, education, and research.

Grant makers are not the primary drivers of toxic polarization. Nor do they intentionally operate as conflict entrepreneurs. But despite our best intentions, we are human and susceptible to habits and behaviors that stoke and fuel toxic polarization.

As a passionate Muslim and a passionate Jew, we have come together to humbly share a path forward for how to transcend the construct of “us vs. them” and side with humanity instead.

Israel’s Arab citizens have not taken up Hamas calls to join the fray. Heart of a Nation Board Member Mohammad Darawashe was instrumental in dousing the flames.

Cultural change tends to have a pendulum-style rhythm, and we are now at the dawn of another collective phase. This mode of collectivism embeds us in communities—but they’re not friendly communities; they’re angry ones.

For the past two and a half months, with the help of an American professor, Robert Vogel, teens from a number of Jewish and Palestinian communities in Israel were encouraged to write about their identities and process their feelings. Heart of a Nation had the privilege of hosting six of these remarkable students.

International high school and college-level students are invited to participate in a social media storytelling contest surrounding October 7 and the ongoing war.

Emerging voices are making the case that the failure of political leadership means that a top-down resolution of affairs… will not be possible to achieve without the greater engagement of civil society…

As we watch the horrors of another war in the Middle East, it is easy to get gloomy and depressed... But that misses an important shift that has taken place in recent times, one that provides some cause for optimism about the future…

Failure to capitalize on this transformative moment would have far-reaching consequences… Israel risks squandering this chance, a mistake with potentially grave consequences for us all.

Many peace groups have been struggling since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which have hardened the positions of many Israelis and Palestinians. But some activists, including those in Combatants for Peace, have quietly started to resume their work.