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Meytal Masuri is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration and Management, University of Haifa. Her research focuses on advancing sustainable employability in the public sector, emphasizing innovation, diversity and resilience. She holds an MA in organizational development and consulting from The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College. Her research dealt with the development processes of young businesses owned by Israeli women. The research was supported by a Ministry of Science and Technology scholarship. Meytal has participated in several academic conferences. She teaches a variety of academic courses at The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College since 2017.

Michal Raz-Rotem (PhD) is an organizational sociologist who specializes in conflict management and diversity in organizations and communities. She has a Ph.D. from the Swiss Center for Conflict Research at Hebrew University. Michal is a joint head of the Center for Diversity and Intergroup Conflict Studies, and a faculty member in the Department of Human Services at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College. Michal has published articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Fields of interest: real-life intergroup encounters, intergroup relations, intergroup tensions, asymmetric power relations between groups, partnership, diversity management in organizations and communities, qualitative research and action research.

Helena Desivilya Syna holds a PhD in Psychology and a minor in Program Evaluation from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is Professor Emerita of Social/Organizational Psychology and Social Conflict at the Max Stern Yezereel Valley College (YVC). She is the founder of the Center for Diversity and Intergroup Conflicts Studies at YVC. Desivilya Syna is the Editor-in-Chief of Conflict Resolution Quarterly.

Her publications include: a book entitled Managing Diversity in Places and Times of Political Tensions: Engaging Inter-group Relations in a Conflict-Ridden Society, published by Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; over 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals; 26 book chapters; and 3 books she edited – A paradox in partnerships: the role of conflict in partnership building and Women’s Voices in Management: Identifying Innovative and Responsible Solutions and the editor-in-chief of multi-volume book project on Emerging Trends in Conflict Management by De Gruyter (two volumes published).