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Internet Communication Technology (ICT) for Reconciliation

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This study is an interdisciplinary research that applies Phronesis in Social Sciences illustrated in Internet research methodologies in an experimental intervention research design to investigate the impact of the usage of internet communication technologies on the reconciliation process, applied in a case study in the Palestinian –Israeli context.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, is the founder of the Wasatia movement in Palestine, also a founder and former director of the American Studies at Alquds University.

  2. 2.

    Barakat, Z. (2017). From Heart of Stone to Heart of Flesh: Evolutionary Journey from Extremism to Moderation. München: Herbert Utz Verlag GmbH.

  3. 3.

    Wasatia: A term used to identify Moderation in Islamic theology.

  4. 4.

    cf. Vrasidas et al. 2009, p. 233.

  5. 5.

    Professor Mohammad Dajani Daoudi, is the founder of Wasatia Movement in Palestine in 2007and the Former Dirctor of the American Studies Institute at Al-Quds University.

  6. 6.

    The term is form a research done by Barakat, Z. (2017). From Heart of Stone to Heart of Flesh: Evolutionary Journey from Extremism to Moderation. München: Herbert Utz Verlag GmbH. That defines Wasatia Circl as a transfromation from reconciliation to moderation that leads to democracy.

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AlDajani, I.M. (2020). Internet Communication Research Overview. In: Internet Communication Technology (ICT) for Reconciliation. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41203-6_1

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