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Internationally Acclaimed Peace Activist, Scholar and Author

Galia Golan, PhD, has also been a leading Israeli peace activist for many decades, having co-founded and served in the leadership of Peace Now and a number of women’s local and international peace groups. Currently she a leading member of Combatants for Peace.

Similarly she has been an active feminist, involved in the founding and leadership of a number of organizations including the Lafer Center, Israel’s first university institute for women’s studies.

She is also an editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal and an associate editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics.

Professor Golan is the author of ten single-authored books, most recent of which is Israeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors Behind the Breakthroughs and Failures.  Together with Walid Salem, she is the co-editor of Non-State Actors in the Middle East: Factors for Peace and Democracy, and with Gilead Sher, a volume