Muli Peleg We didn’t come there to impose any fancy solutions or magical panaceas. We arrived to elicit their stories and their perceptions of the reality they live in. We simply encouraged them to talk by asking them simple questions: “What does it mean to be a Ramlian from your perspective”, and “How would you… read more

Muli Peleg Ramla is truly a microcosm of the Israeli society. Despite its small population (65,000), Ramla is home to several ethnic, religious, lingual and national entities, which endeavor to coexist under a municipality of scant resources and occasionally biased priorities. This is an ideal location for social research: it is relatively small and hence,… read more

Early Spring, 2012.  A private residence in Ramla, Israel.  Twenty participants representing disparate identities engaged in a conversation of the issues facing their town.  The environment is relaxed but the discourse is passionate.  The conversation evolves as each participant is offered the chance to speak, and the current subject is prospects for social mobility embedded… read more

The team for the “Pavilion for Sustainable Peace,” a part of the Cosmopolis 2045 project, has taken on the task of envisioning what a center for sustainable peace would be and do in the year 2045. An assignment of this nature calls on us to be creative, suspend judgment and dream big. We also realize… read more