Бленхейм Шарон

Sharón is a doctoral student in Conflict Management and Resolution at Ben Gurion University ‎‎of the Negev. Sharón graduated with a B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Maryland ‎and ‎attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Graduate Program in Clinical/Medical ‎‎Psychology. In 2008 she completed a Masters in Public Policy: Mediation and ‎Conflict ‎Resolution at Tel Aviv University. She is currently a doctoral student in the ‎program on Conflict ‎Management and Resolution at Ben Gurion University of the ‎Negev. ‎

Sharón served a staff member for 17 years in the Arava Institute for ‎Environmental Studies, ‎serving most recently as Director of Alumni Projects, including ‎founding the Arava Alumni ‎Peace and Environmental Network (AAPEN). ‎Previously Sharón worked in the Public Relations Department of Hebrew University ‎of ‎Jerusalem, interned at University of Maryland's Center for International ‎Development and ‎Conflict Management (CIDCM), worked as a counselor in the ‎Hadassah Hospital - Eating ‎Disorders Clinic, and served as the Director of the ‎Hannaton Educational Center (in charge of ‎logistics, program development, and ‎informal educational programming). ‎Sharón has worked ‎as a facilitator for Pathways to Negotiation, which brings ‎together Arab and Jewish Israeli high ‎school students to learn negotiation tools, for ‎Jerusalem Peace Builders, and for MEJDI ‎Company: dual narrative tours. She ‎conducts organizational consulting for Shatil (The New ‎Israel Fund), and offers a ‎variety of workshops as a freelancer for educational groups from ‎high school age to ‎post army programs to community groups. In addition, Sharón also provides ‎English language editing services to other academics. ‎

Currently, Sharón serves as Coordinator of the Martin-Springer Center for Conflict Studies at ‎‎Ben Gurion University (MSC). In MSC she was a member of the trilateral research team for the ‎recently ‎completed project entitled “Hearts of Flesh not Stone: The impact of encountering the ‎other on ‎attitudes to reconciliation” supported by the German Research Fund (DFG). She was ‎also a co-coordinator for the joint summer course Borders, Identities, Social Repair structured ‎as a joint three-week, ‎international summer program for students from Northern Arizona ‎University (NAU), Arizona, USA & from Ben ‎Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel. Sharón ‎assisted in the process of editing and producing the book, Israeli and Palestinian Collective ‎Narratives in Conflict: A Tribute to Shifra Sagy and Her Work (Cambridge Scholars). Current ‎research projects conducted by the Center including “My Diverse Kindergarten” in Israel and an ‎international study ‎about coping with the coronavirus pandemic. ‎