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WHO
WE ARE
JEMS was created as a partnership between the
Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI),
a joint Palestinian-Israeli public policy think-tank devoted to developing
practical solutions to the Middle East conflict, and the Consensus Building
Institute (CBI), a non-profit organization
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, that provides mediation and dispute
system design services to public and private clients worldwide.
Professor Larry Susskind, Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes
Program at Harvard Law School and President and Founder of CBI, is taking
a lead role in the development of JEMS. Professor Susskind is one of the
most experienced public and environmental dispute mediators in the United
States and also a leading researcher, writer, and trainer in the dispute
resolution field. He has mediated more than fifty complex multi-party
disputes worldwide related to the siting of controversial facilities,
the establishment of public health and safety standards, the formulation
and implementation of development plans and projects, and conflicts among
racial and ethnic groups.
The JEMS initiative has the approval of the Israeli and Palestinian Ministries
of the Environment. The project's main funding is being provided by the
Scandinavian V. Kann-Rasmussen Foundation.
Distinguished Israeli and Palestinian environmental activists and professionals
are taking an active part in the project.
The Board of Trustees:
Dror Amir,
Deputy Director General - Infrastructure and Development, Jaffa
Dr. Gershon Baskin, Co-Director
of IPCRI
Professor Sari Nusseibeh,
President of Al-Quds University
Dr. Zakaria Al-Qaq, Co-Director
of IPCRI
Professor Hillel Shuval,
Environmental Sciences of Hebrew University
Hanna Siniora, Chairman of
Palestinian Chamber of Commerce
Professor Lawrence Susskind,
President of Consensus Building Institute
The Board of Advisors:
Dr. Muhammad
Ajjour, Director General of Ministry of Environmental Affairs
Akram Awawdeh, Director General
of Ministry of Transportation
Dr. Shmuel Brenner, Head
of National Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health
Valerie Brachya, Senior Deputy
Director General; Israeli Ministry of Environment
Gideon Bromberg, Director
of Friends of the Earth - Middle East
Khulud Dajani, Associate
Dean of School of Public Health of Al-Quds University
Hassan Dweik, Dean, School
of Science of Al-Quds University
Noam Gressler, Senior Partner
in ASSIF-Strategies
Yolla Haddaden, Deputy Director
of DPK Consulting International
Dr. Mohammad Said Al-Hmaidi,
Advisor to Minister of Environmental Affairs
Professor Dafna Izraeli,
Director of Gender Studies of Bar-Ilan University
Nadar Al-Khateeb, Director
of WEDO
Dr. Yossi Leshem, Faculty
of Life Science of Tel Aviv University v
Dr. Uri Marinov, Senior Environmental
Consultant
Dr. Arieh Nesher, Director
of Porter Environmental Center of Tel Aviv University
Dr. Peretz Segal, Director
of National Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution of Ministry
of Justice
Dr. Alon Tal, Chairman of
Life and Environment
The Management Team:
Ronnie
Cohen-Ginat, Israeli Co-Director
Amjad
Jaouni, Palestinian Co-Director
Michèle
Ferenz, CBI Senior Associate
Robin
Twite, Director, Environmental Programs, IPCRI
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