The Human Needs Map: A Tool for Peacebuilding | Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium

Hosted by Dina Roginsky

Deborah Heifetz is a social anthropologist, mediator, and professional facilitator who developed the concept “non-mediated peacekeeping’ from her ethnographic study of Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation during the Oslo years (1994-2000). She has acted in Track II Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, co-founded the peace-building and community development NGO – HiMaT – with projects in Pakistan and actively engaged in the international grassroots movement, the Transition Network. The Human Needs Map, introduced at this colloquim, has been published as a Map to Compassion in MIT’s Journal for Awareness-Based Systems Change.