Dr. Ned Lazarus is a conflict resolution scholar,
practitioner, and evaluator, currently a Research Fellow
at the University of Maryland and Program Officer at
the Israel Institute. He has evaluated Israeli-Palestinian
peacebuilding initiatives on behalf of USAID, the U.S.
Institute of Peace and the European Union. He served
as Middle East Program Director for Seeds of Peace in
Jerusalem from 1996-2004.
Hundreds of participants of youth peace education programs – Jewish Israeli, Israeli
Palestinians, and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories – have gone on to engage
in peace-building efforts.