Summary: Dr. Galia Golan, professor emerita, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presently leads the program in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in the School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She is a leader of Peace Now (the Israeli Peace Movement), Bat Shalom (of the Jerusalem Link, a Palestinian and Israeli Women’s Joint Venture for Peace), and the International Women’s Commission for a Just Peace. She also serves on the Council of Pugwash and on the editorial board of The Palestine-Israel Journal and is a member of the executive committee of Meretz (Social Democratic Party). Dr. Golan joins Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Chautauqua Institution’s director of Religion, in a discussion of the peace process between Israel and Palestine. Key points of the conversation include Judaism as a religion versus a Jewish identity of belonging to a people, her decision to emigrate to Israel, enormous changes to Israel in recent years and reasons why she thinks real peace in the region is possible and growing closer. Golan states “I think it is possible today…the region has changed and things are actually in favor of an agreement…there are solutions.”
