EUME
2009/ 2010

Bashir Bashir

The Politics of Reconciliation and Bi-national Democracy in Palestine/Israel

is a research fellow in the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. degree in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He received his B.A. in Politics, Sociology and Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Bashir co-chairs with Prof. Yossi Yonah and Dr. Guy Ben-Porat a research group on Public Policy and Multiculturalism in Israel and co-edits a book with Dr. Amos Goldberg on The Holocaust in Israel’s Public Discourse: Between the Perpetuation of Victimhood and the Promise of Civility. He has taught Political Theory at the LSE, Queen’s University (Canada), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary research interests are: democratic theories of inclusion, multiculturalism, conflict resolution and the politics of reconciliation, deliberative democracy, and Bi-nationalism in Palestine/Israel. Among Bashir’s publications is: Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir (eds.), The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).

The Politics of Reconciliation and Bi-national Democracy in Palestine/Israel

Bashir's current research project that he will work on as a EUME Fellow in Berlin is titled The Politics of Reconciliation and Bi-national Democracy in Palestine/Israel.