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IDI Senior Fellow Prof. Tamar S. Hermann, a political scientist specializing in public opinion-making and its measurement, is the academic director of IDI’s Guttman Center and heads IDI’s Political Reform Project with Dr. Arye Carmon. Prof. Hermann also stands at the helm of IDI’s Renewing the Israeli Social Contract project and is the co-editor of The Peace Index, a joint project of IDI and Tel Aviv University that monitors Israeli public opinion about the Arab-Israeli conflict through monthly surveys.
A leading expert in Israeli politics, foreign policymaking, civil society and grassroots politics, Prof. Hermann is a faculty member of the Political Science Department of the Open University of Israel. Between 1994 and 2006, she served as the director of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University.
Prof. Hermann received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Political Science from Tel Aviv University, where her doctoral dissertation was entitled "From a Peace Treaty to Peace Now — The Pragmatic Pacifism of the Peace Camp in Israel." She was a MacArthur Postdoctoral Fellow for Peace and Security at Princeton University, where she later returned as a Visiting Research Fellow, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s University in Belfast. Prof. Hermann also served as a Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Truman Institute and a visiting lecturer at the university’s International Relations Department.
Prof. Hermann’s current research focuses on the connection between the meteoric rise in the activities of non-government organizations in liberal democracies and the difficulty that such governments have in maintaining public confidence and in ensuring adequate levels of public participation in the institutions of state. Her latest book, The Israeli Peace Movement – A Shattered Dream, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Prof. Hermann also writes a monthly column in the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot.
Selected articles by Professor Tamar Hermann:
- Hermann, T., Realistic nonviolence – The Israeli Four Mothers movement. In M. Stephan, ed., Non-violent movements and the Middle East conflict (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 253-264.
- Tamar Hermann, Pacifism and anti-militarism in the period surrounding the birth of the state of Israel, Israel Studies 15, 2 (2010), pp. 127-148.
- Tamar Hermann, and A. First., Sweet nationalism in bitter days: A commercial representation of Zionism, Nations and Nationalism 15, 3 (October 2009), pp. 506-523.
- Tamar Hermann, with E. Yuchtman-Yaar, “The People's Voice: Israeli Public Opinion on the Referendum Issue,” in D. Arieli-Horowitz, ed., Politics Phantom – Israel and the Referendum Issue, Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute and Magnes Press, 2006, (pp. 117-138)
- Tamar Hermann, “Conflict Sustains Stability, Compromise Erodes Legitimacy”, www.bitterlemons.org, 2006
- Tamar Hermann, "The Iron Wall", www.bitterlemons.org, 2011
- Tamar Hermann , "Divided yet United: Israeli Jewish Public Opinion on the Oslo Process," with E. Yuchtman-Yaar, Journal of Peace Research, 2002, (pp. 597-613)
- Tamar Hermann , "The Binational Idea in Israel/Palestine: Past and Present," in Nations and Nationalism, 2005, vol. 11, part 3, (pp. 381-402)
- Tamar Hermann, “Reconciliation: Reflections on the Theoretical and Practical Utility of the Term,” in Y. Bar-Siman-Tov ed., From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, (pp. 39-60)
- Tamar Hermann, “Away from War? Israelis Security Beliefs in the Post-Oslo Era,” in Philip Everts and Pierangelo Isernia, eds. When the Going Gets Tough. Public Opinion and the Use of Military Force, London: Routledge Books, 2001, (pp. 163-182)
Together with Prof. Ephraim Yaar, Prof. Hermann also writes The Peace Index, a monthly survey of Israeli public opinion, which became a joint project of IDI and The Evens Program in Conflict Resolution of Tel Aviv University in 2010.
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email: tamarhe@idi.org.il
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