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Trauma and Group Conflict: Victim/Aggressor Relations in Jewish-Palestinian Encounters, —Ahmad Hijazi, MA

Palestinian participants in the encounters are 2nd & 3rd generation decedents of victims of El Nak'ba, the Disaster, the war of 1948. The Jewish participants are 2nd or 3rd generation decedents of Holocaust survivors. Placed in opposition to one another, these two identities struggle over which group is more humane and more of a victim. After the arguments exhaust themselves, participants find themselves in a more equal and progressive dialogue, and the establishment of a working group. The presentation will involve recounts of experiences from working in this process, and stories brought by the participants themselves. These stories are not only personal, but familial and cultural, demonstrating the national aspect of a shared trauma.