Guy Ben-Porat January 2014

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1 Guy Ben-Porat January 2014 CURRICULM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Personal Details Name Guy Ben-Porat Date and Place of Birth September 19, 1967, Tel-Aviv, Israel Work Address Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel. Tel Home Address Ein Ofarim 10, Lehavim 85338, Israel, Tel Education B.A. Ph.D , Tel-Aviv University, Political Science and Psychology , Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, Advisors: Giovanni Arrighi and Siba Grovogui, Thesis: Globalization, Peace, and Discontent: Israel and Northern Ireland Employment History 2013 Present Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration, The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben- Gurion University Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University. Summer 2011 Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University Visiting Fellow, Political Science and Jewish Studies, University of California, Davis Lecturer, Department of Public Policy and Administration, The Guilford Glazer School of Management, Ben-Gurion University present Lecturer, Air Force Academy, BGU Adjunct Faculty, Sapir College Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv 1

2 University Teaching Assistant and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University Research Assistant, United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC Journalist, "H'Air", Tel-Aviv Professional Activities (a) Positions in academic administration Chair, Department of Public Policy and Administration Chair, Faculty Research Student committee 2011 Academic Director, Atidim Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Director, Rich Foundation Program for Master Degree in Public Policy and administration, Ben-Gurion University Teaching Committee Chair, Department of Public Policy and administration, Ben-Gurion University August 2003: Coordinator, "Rich" International Workshop "Economic Growth and Inequality", Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. (b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions Research Group Director, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Policing and Society Present Assistant Editor Citizenship Studies 2004 Present Research Fellow, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem Academic Advisor, Abraham Fund Initiatives Arab Society Police Relations Initiative 2012 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 12 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting 2011 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), St. Gallen, Switzerland, ECPR Joint Sessions 2

3 Research Group Director, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Religion, Economy and Secularization Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 11 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting 2009 Academic Coordinator, Senior Police Officer Course "Policing Multicultural and Multinational States", Israeli Police Academy 2008 Academic Coordinator, Senior Police Officer Course "Policing Multicultural and Multinational States", Israeli Police Academy 2008 Workshop Director (with Manfred Brocker) Globalization, Religion and the State: Between Conflict and Accommodation Catholic Academy, Berlin, Germany 2008 Workshop director (with Jeff Haynes), Florence, Italy, 9 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting Research Group director (with Yossi Yona and Bashir Bashir), "Multiculturalism and public policy" Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem Workshop director (with Eiki Berg), Florence, Italy, 7 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting 2005 Coordinator, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, International workshop: Implementing peace agreements Israel/Palestine, South Africa and Northern Ireland Research Fellow, Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem. (e) Membership in professional/scientific societies International Studies Association European Consortium of Political Research Israeli Political Science Association (f) Reviewer Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Citizenship studies, Crime and Delinquency, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Van Leer Press 3

4 Educational activities (a) Courses taught Diversity Management. MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. Religion and Public Policy. MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. "Managing multiculturalism: lessons from the Canadian Model", MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. "Advanced Issues in Israeli Politics", MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. "Globalization, State and Governance", MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. "Conflict Resolution and The Governance of Societies in Conflict", MA, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University. "International Interdependence", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis "Global Inequality", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis "The Arab-Israeli Conflict", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis "Conflict Resolution", BA, Political Science, University of California Davis "History of Modern Israel", BA, UC Davis "Introduction to Government and Politics", BA, Tel-Aviv University "Comparative Politics", BA, Tel-Aviv University "Globalization and the nation state", BA, Tel-Aviv University "Introduction to International Relations", BA, Sapir College, (also, Interdisciplinary Center, Ben-Gurion University. Homo-economicus, re-thinking Economic Rationality", BA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem "Governing Multi-Ethnic States", MA, Carleton University, Ottawa 4

5 "Topics in International Development and Globalization", BA, University of Ottawa (b) Research Students 2006 Nissim Cohen MA Ben-Gurion University 2007 Omri Shamir MA Ben-Gurion University 2008 Shmuel Nili MA Open University 2011 Dan Gurfinkel MA Ben-Gurion University (with Fany Yuval) 2009 Rafik Haj Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi) 2011 Omri Shamir Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi) In Process In Process In Process In Process In Process In Process In Process Irit Harbon Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Shlomo Mizrahi) Einat Zamwel Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University (with Orna Sasson-Levy) Michal Strier Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University (with Haggai Katz) Assaf Malchi Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University Hanan Magal, MA, Ben-Gurion University Yael Shmariahu, MA, Ben-Gurion University Ofir Abu (Dr.) Post-Doc (with Fany Yuval) Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships 2008 Ernest-Otto Czempiel Prize, Frankfurt Peace Institute, Best Book of Peace Research, 5000 EU 2006 Israeli Political Science Association, honorable mention for best book published in English Israeli Political Science Association, representative article for Encounters: Political Science in translation. 5

6 Tel-Aviv University, 10,000$, Post-doc fellowship Johns Hopkins University, 128,000$, Ph.D. scholarship Scientific Publications *since last promotion (a) Authored Books Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, Global Liberalism, Local Populism: peace and conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, Syracuse University Press *Guy Ben-Porat, Shlomo Mizrachi, Arye Naor and Erez Tzfadia, 2008, Israel Since 1980, Cambridge University Press *Guy Ben-Porat, 2013, Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Modern Israel, Cambridge University Press (b) Editorship of collective volumes Guy Ben-Porat (ed.) 2008 The Failure of the Middle East Peace Process? Palgrave Press Eiki Berg and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.) 2008 special issue Nations and Nationalism 14(1), *Bryan Turner and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), 2008, special issue Citizenship Studies, Vol.12, No.3 *Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat, 2010, special issue Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 11, 2 *Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), 2011 The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge *Zeev Shavit, Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), Boundaries, Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew). *Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, special issue Mediterranean Politics. Uri Gopher and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.) 2013 Policing Minorities (Hebrew), Pardes 6

7 (c) Chapters in Collective Volumes Guy Ben-Porat 2004 "Business and Peace: The Rise and Fall of the New Middle East" in Ram, U. and Filk D. (eds.) The Power of Property Jerusalem: Van-Leer *Guy Ben-Porat 2009 "Religion and Secularism in Israel: Between Politics and Sub-Politics", In Jeff Haynes (ed.) Religion and Politics in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Secularization, Democracy and Citizenship Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science. *Guy Ben-Porat 2009 Multicultural Realities in Mitchel C. Bard and David Nachmias (eds.) Israel Studies: An Ethnology Jewish Virtual Library Publications *Omri Shamir and Guy Ben-Porat 2010 "From the Parliament to the Market: Political Consumerism and the Fight for Sabbath" in Lyn Thomas and Kate Soper (eds.) Shopping at the shrine: Religion and Consumerism UK: Palgrave. *Ofir Abu, Fany Yuval and Guy Ben-Porat 2011 "All That is Left: The Demise of the Zionist Left Parties " in Asher Arian and Michal Shamir The Elections in Israel 2008, SUNY Press *Guy Ben-Porat 2011 Inward Turns: Citizenship, Solidarity and Exclusion in Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), The Contradictions of Israeli citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge *Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner 2011 Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship in Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner (eds.), The Contradictions of Israeli citizenship: Land, Religion and State Routledge. * Guy Ben-Porat 2012 Politics and Political Leaders in David Biale (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Jewish Studies. *Guy Ben-Porat, 2014, Market Economy and Secularization: Eating Pork in Israel in Zeev Shavit, Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), forthcoming, Boundaries, Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew). *Orna Sasson-Levi, Guy Ben-Porat and Zeev Shavit, 2014, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Israeli Identities in Israel in Zeev Shavit, Orna Saason-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat (eds.), forthcoming, Boundaries, Identities and Changing Categories in Israelis Society, Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew). 7

8 *Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, Secularization and Liberalism: Parallel Lines? in Yochi Fischer (ed.) Secularism and Secularization, Jerusalem: Van-Leer (Hebrew). (d) Refereed articles 1. Guy Ben-Porat 2000 In a State of Holiness; Rethinking Israeli Secularism Alternatives 25 (2), pp Q3 2. Guy Ben-Porat 2003 The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation of immigrants in Israel, " Immigrants and Minorities V.22, No.1, March 2003, pp Guy Ben-Porat and Amir Ben-Porat 2004 "(Un)Bounded Soccer: Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel" International Review of the Sociology of Sport Vol.34, No.4, pp Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Same Old Middle East? The New Middle East and the Double Movement" International Relations, 19 (1): Q2 5. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Between Power and Hegemony: Business Communities in Peace Processes" Review of International Studies 35 (2): Q1 6. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Grounds for Peace: Territoriality and Conflict Resolution" Geopolitics 10 (1): Q2 7. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Business and Peace: The Rise and Fall of the New Middle East" Encounters 1 (1). (Israeli Political Science Association, representative article) 8. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Netanyhau's Second Coming: A Neoconservative Policy Paradigm" Israel Studies 10 (3): Guy Ben-Porat and Shlomo Mizrachi 2005 "Political Culture, Alternative Politics and Foreign Policy: The Case of Israel" Policy Sciences 38: Q1 10. Guy Ben-Porat 2005 "Between Peace Dividends and Peace" Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy 6 (2): Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Markets and Fences: Illusions of Peace" Middle East Journal 60 (2):

9 12. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Dollar Diplomacy: Globalization, Identity Change and Peace" Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 12 (3-4): Q2 13. Guy Ben-Porat and Fani Yuval, 2007 "Israeli Neoconservatism: Rise and Fall?" Israel Studies Forum 22 (1): Omri Shamir and Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Protecting the Sabbath religious consumerism and public policy" Contemporary Politics 13 (1): Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Virtuous cycles, vicious cycles: Globalization and peace processes in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland" Dialogue Vol. 1, No. 2 *16. Eiki Berg and Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Partition vs. Power-Sharing" Nations and Nationalism 14(1), Q1 *17. Guy Ben-Porat "We are Here, They are There: Partition and exclusion in Israel/Palestine", 2008, Citizenship Studies 12(3): Q1 *18. Guy Ben-Porat and Bryan Turner 2008 "Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship", 2008, Citizenship Studies 12(3): Q1 *19. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Policing Multicultural States", Policing and Society 18( 4): Q1 *20. Nissim Cohen and Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Business Communities and Peace: The Cost-Benefit Calculation of Political Involvement", Peace and Change, 33(3): Q4 *21. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "What does Football Teach us of Globalization and Vice Versa" Politika (Hebrew) *22. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger 2009 "Live and Let Buy, Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism", Comparative Politics, 41(3): Q1 *23. Guy Ben-Porat and Omri Shamir, 2012, "Days of (Un)Rest", Politics and Religion, 5: *24. Haynes, Jeffrey and Guy Ben-Porat 2010 Globalization, Religion and Secularization: Different States, Same Trajectories? Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 11( 2): *25. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger 2012 "It Takes Two for a Culture War" 9

10 Social Science Quarterly, 9(3): Q1 *26. Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval 2012 "Minorities in Democracy and Policing Policy: From Alienation to Cooperation", Policing and Society 22(2): *27. Guy Ben-Porat, Fany Yuval and Shlomo Mizrahi Diversity Management and the Role of the Police, Policy Sciences 45 (3): Q1 *28. Guy Ben-Porat and Yariv Feniger "Unpacking Secularization" forthcoming, Ethnicities Q1 29. Guy Ben-Porat 2013 Are We There Yet? Religion, secularization and Liberal Democracy in Israel forthcoming Mediterranean Politics 30. Jeff Haynes and Guy Ben-Porat 2013 Religion, secularization and democracy in the Mediterranean region: Problems and prospects forthcoming Mediterranean Politics. 31. Einat Zamwell, Orna Sasson-Levi and Guy Ben-Porat, forthcoming, Voluntary simplifiers as political consumers: Individuals practicing politics through reduced consumption. Revise and Submit Guy Ben-Porat, Omri Shamir and Fany Yuval "Value for Money: Political Consumerism in Israel" Under Review Policy and Society Guy Ben-Porat, Yossi Yona and Bashir Bashir (eds.) Multiculturalism and Public Policy (Hebrew) Under Review, Van-Leer Books and articles in Progress Guy Ben-Porat, Carpe Diem: Secular Entrepreneurs in the Public Sphere Book Manuscript (Hebrew), Under Review, Van-Leer. (e) Unrefereed Professional Articles Guy Ben-Porat 1998 Beyond Peace; the search for security in the Middle East, Book Review, Shofar, July 1998 Guy Ben-Porat 2009 Review of Lev Grinberg: "Imaginary Peace, Talk of War" Israeli Sociology, 10, 2, pp (Hebrew) 10

11 Lectures and Presentations (b) Presentation of papers at conferences and meetings 1. Guy Ben-Porat, 1998, The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation in Israel, ", presented at the Institute for Global Studies in Culture Power and History, Johns Hopkins April, 2. Guy Ben-Porat, 1998, The Ingathering; State, Capital and Assimilation in Israel, ", Association for Israeli Studies annual meeting, Rutgers, June Guy Ben-Porat, 1999 In a State of Holiness; Rethinking Israeli Secularism, Association for Israeli Studies annual meeting, Washington DC. 4. Guy Ben-Porat, 1999 Salt of the Earth, the Nation-State and the Politics of Nostalgia, Nationalism, Identity and Minority Rights, Bristol UK 5. Guy Ben-Porat, 2002 "Globalization, Peace and Discontent", International Studies Assocaition, New Orleans, USA. 6. Guy Ben-Porat, 2002 "Virtuous cycles, Vicious Cycles, Globalization and Peace Processes in Israel and Northern Ireland" CISS-ISA, Brugge. 7. Guy Ben-Porat, 2003 "Between Jewish and Democratic" European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Edinburgh, Scotland. 8. Guy Ben-Porat, 2003 "The Same Old Middle East?" CISS/ISA, Budapest. 9. Guy Ben-Porat, 2004 "Exclusions, Inclusions and Public Policy" Israeli Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Beer-Sheva 10. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "Grounds for Peace in Resolving Territorial Conflicts: A Comparison of Israel / Palestine and Northern Ireland", CROSSING CULTURES, CROSSING DISCIPLINES, CROSSING SCALES, Van-Leer, Jerusalem. 11. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005, "Between the Market and the Temple: The Struggle over Sabbath in Israel" 37 th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm. 12. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "Religion, Capitalism and the Public sphere: the Struggle over Sabbath in Israel" International Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb. 11

12 13. Guy Ben-Porat, 2005 "On the politics of diversity" Van Leer Entity Event: Diversity, Identity and Empathy Jerusalem. 14. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006 "The neoconservative revolution" Contemporary Capitalism International Workshop, Ben-Gurion University. 15. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006, "Dollar diplomacy: globalisation, identity change and peace" ITENIBA Conference, UCD Geary Institute, Dublin, Ireland. 16. Guy Ben-Porat, 2006 "We are Here, They are There: Partition and exclusion in Israel/Palestine" Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, Italy. 17. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "The New Middle East, Lessons from Northern Ireland", International Conference on the Links Between Economics and Security, The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 18. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "Religion and Secularism in Israel: Between Politicization and de-politicization" ECPR Joint Sessions, Helsinki Guy Ben-Porat 2007 "Secular but Illiberal?" Association for Israeli Studies, Raanana, Israel. 20. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "Global Liberalism, Local Populism" Seventh International CISS Millennium Conference Bucaco, Portugal. 21. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "De-nationalization, re-nationalization and the prospects of peace" Beyond The Nation? Critical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Uncertain Times Belfast, UK 22. Guy Ben-Porat, 2007 "policing and the multicultural challenge" Immigration, Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies Montreal, Canada 23. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Policing Multicultural States" Israel Association for Canadian Studies Jerusalem, Israel 24. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Sub-Politics and Political Consumrism in Israel: The case of the Struugle Over the Sabbath" Globalization, Religion and the State: Between Conflict and Accommodation Catholic Academy, Berlin, Germany (with Omri Shamir) 25. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "It takes two for a Culture War" Florence, Italy, 9 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting 12

13 26. Guy Ben-Porat 2008 "Global Liberalism, Local Populism", San Francisco, CA, International Studies West Association Meeting. 27. Guy Ben-Porat and Omri Shamir 2010 " Days of (un) Rest: Political Consumerism and the Struggle over the Sabbath", Florence, Italy, 11 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting. 28. Guy Ben-Porat 2010 Policing Multicultural States Northeastern Political Science Association. 29. Guy Ben-Porat 2011 Religion, Secularization and the State: re-negotiating the Political ECPR Joints Sessions, Switzerland. 30. Guy Ben-Porat 2012 Are We There Yet? Secularization and Liberalization in Contemporary Israel Florence, Italy, 13 th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting (d) Seminar presentations at universities and institutions 2003 "The Middle East and the Double Movement" Presented at the Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University "From the New Middle East to the Separation Wall, What Went Wrong?" presented at Singapore Management University, Singapore "Markets and Fences: Illusions of Peace?" Presented at Tartu University, Estonia, May "Peace Dividends, Lessons from the Middle East" presented at the Institut Barcelona D'Estudias Internacionals (IBEI), October "Farewell to the New Middle East?", presented at the Orfalea Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, December "Farewell to the New Middle East?", Levinson Lecture, San Jose State University, California "Global Liberalism, Local Populism", Presented at Northeastern University, Boston "Live and Let Buy, Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism", Presented at the London School of Economics and at the Middle East Center, St. Anthony College, Oxford. 13

14 2010 "Israeli Secularization: Liberal and Illiberal Aspects" Presented at Helsinki's People Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey Paths for Peace Presented at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan 2012 Policing and Minorities, presented at the University of Bologna, Italy 2013 Between State and Synagogue Presented at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University 2013 Between State and Synagogue Presented at the Jewish Studies Department, University of Illinois, Chicago Research Grants Synopsis of Research 2003 Guy Ben-Porat Israel Foundations Trustees, "When Saturday comes: Commercial activities on Saturdays", $7500, 2 years Guy Ben-Porat, Israeli Association for Canadian Studies, "Managing multi-ethnic states",$4800, 1 year Guy Ben-Porat, Israeli Association for Canadian Studies, "Policing multiethnic states", $4800, 1 year Paul Saurette and Guy Ben-Porat (research collaborator) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada "The Rhizomatic Right: The Philosophy and Discourse of the Right in North America",$ 25,000$, 4 years Guy Ben-Porat Internal Grant, Ben-Gurion University "Israeli Secularism: Sources and Resources", $ Guy Ben-Porat Israel Science Foundation "Israeli Secularism: Sources and Resources",$75,000, 3 years Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval Abraham Fund "The Arab Minority and the Israeli Police" $10,000, one year 2014 Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval Israel Science Foundation Policing and Minorities $110,000 3 years My early research has focused on the peace processes in Israel and Northern 14

15 Ireland. The research, published in 2006 (Global Liberalism, Local Populism; Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, Syracuse University 2006), examined the influence of globalization, and the social-economic changes it entails, on peace processes in Israel and Northern Ireland. In 2008 the book was awarded the Ernest-Otto Czempiel Prize from the Frankfurt Peace Institute, for the Best Book of Peace Research. My new research has shifted "inwards" to domestic policy making but continues to explore the relations between economic changes, the politics of conflicts and policy making. The first research I am currently engaged in examines the impact of economic changes on church-state relations and existing arrangements. Looking at Israel and elsewhere I am interested to learn how the changes of a market society influence the relations between religious and secular and what possibilities are there for new policies and institutions that would prevent conflict. The research that began in 2006 has yielded several publications and a book with Cambridge University Press. My second field of research concerns public policy in a multicultural state and society. This research aims to study the role of institutions as causes for ethnocultural conflicts but also as potential response for the challenges raised by linguistic, ethnic, religious and cultural differences that translate into a variety of challenges that Israel and other states face. A preliminary research in Canada allowed me to study questions of policing in multicultural societies. This research is continued in Israel and involves work with the Israeli police. Overall, I am interested on questions of institutions as tools of policy making and their ability to reduce conflicts within states between cultural groups. In the next years, therefore, I plan to develop my field of study in public policy by studying the different relations between economic changes, globalization, multiculturalism and secularization and their relation to policy making and to further develop research and teaching methods in diversity management. 15