Carol Daniel Kasbari, conflict transformation specialist and veteran facilitator for groups in conflict in the Middle East since 1995. She managed several USAID programs through local and international NGO’s such as Search for Common Ground, Catholic Relief Services and other in various fields such as in media, dialogue, education and advocacy. She worked with numerous groups such as wounded crossing borders, senior media professionals, high school educators, women activists and many others in Israel, Palestine, Turkey, Greece and Bosnia. She was the co-founder and director of the Israeli Palestinian Media Forum (IPMF) and a consultant for UNESCO’s division of Freedom of Expression for 8 years. She is well known in the region for her capability to create partnerships among organizations and people in conflict and has succeeded to gain the trust of Palestinians and Israelis actors personally and professionally. In 2003 she produced the only co-production ever between Israeli and Palestinian official TV stations, a documentary “On the Road to Dialogue” which was co-broadcasted simultaneously on PBC and Channel 2 to give a message of tolerance and hope in the heat of the second Intifada. She has written several academic papers and presentations on critical media consumptions, war/peace journalism and other. Her op-ed articles on Jerusalem and reflections on the Israeli Palestinian dialogue were published widely in several languages internationally in Washington Post, NY times and media outlets in the Middle East. In 2011, she held a powerful TEDx talk on “Going beyond the Dialogue of Words” to illustrate through her personal
