International Fellows Institute
A virtual academy of global scholars engaged in international research regarding redressing poverty, building community and fostering peace through nonviolence.
The International Fellows Institute focuses on identifying reputable scholars from countries around the globe who can assist the King Center in researching issues pertinent to their given area of expertise or to their home country. The ultimate goal is to foster a new generation of researchers interested in topics of nonviolence, while serving as a “brain trust” to support our efforts worldwide.
The maiden member of the International Fellows Institute is Dr. Samuel Muli Peleg of Israel, an expert in nonviolence and conflict resolution strategies. If you would like to learn more about the Fellows program or are interested in participating, please contact the program's director, Maneshka Eliatamby, at meliatamby@thekingcenter.org.
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International Fellows
IsraelMuli Peleg, PhD
Muli Peleg is a professor of political science and communication at the School of communication at Netanya College and a senior lecturer at the Inter-Disciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya. Dr. Peleg is an expert in conflict and conflict resolution processes and is a research fellow at the Stanford Center for International Conflict resolution and negotiation (SCICN). His affiliation with Realizing the Dream started in 2008, and he has since contributed in areas of leadership, activism and conflict resolution.
Dr. Peleg's areas of research and interest are conflict and conflict resolution, dialogue and discourse, social activism and nonviolence. He has published several articles and books, among them Spreading the Wrath of God (1997, Hebrew), Zealotry and Vengeance- quest of Religious Identity Group (2002, Lexington Books), If Words Could Kill: the Failure of Public Discourse in Israel (2003, Hebrew University Press), and Fighting Terrorism in the Liberal State (2006, IOS Press).
He is currently completing his new book about Dialogue as Conflict Management. Professor Peleg writes columns in the Israeli daily press and appears frequently on TV and radio as a political and cultural commentator. He is a senior researcher at the Japanese peace research TODA organization and of the APSA- American Political Science Association and IPRA- the International Peace Research Association. He has taught courses in prestigious universities in the USA and is a regular participant in professional and activist conferences. In March 2005, he was one of the honoraries to be invited by the esteemed Club of Madrid, to the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security in Madrid. Later that year he won a research grant of $30,000 for an international project titled the Origins of Extremism.
Professor Peleg is a renowned expert on Israeli politics and culture. He is frequently invited to talks and lectures in the United States and Europe on Palestinian- Israeli affairs and on social activism topics. He has served as a top advisor on leadership and negotiations for the Peres Center for Peace and has also counseled the Prime Minister’s office, the Foreign Office and the National Security Council.
Professor Peleg has been the Israeli Co-Chairman of One Voice, an organization which promotes dialogue and reconciliation between the various factions of the Israeli society as well as between Israelis and Palestinians. He is also an accomplished poet and his poetry book Kor Ot Haim (A bleak Sign of Life) won the prestigious Haifa University and Ron Adler Award. Currently, Dr. Peleg is the Schusterman Visiting Professor at the Bildner Center, Rutgers University for the 2009-2011 school years.
