Editors: Michèle Auga, Shlomo Hasson, Rami Nasrallah, Stephan Stetter

Publisher: IPCC, The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, The Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Studies, 2005

ISBN: 965-7283-06-x

Divided Cities in Transition II is the second of a series of publications produced by the Jerusalem-Berlin Forum (JBF), a trilateral German-Israeli-Palestinian cooperation project. Under the auspices of the Friedrich-Ebert-Strifung, the JBF continues its ongoing dialogue, drawing together the varied professional experiences of two teams of researchers; one from Berlin, composed of former East and West Germans, and one from Jerusalem, composed of Palestinians and Israelis.

The compilation includes a unique collection of social, economic, political cultural and spatial studies, which provide a detailed overview of the day-today processes shaping the cities today and probably in the future. The researchers offer alternative hypotheses about the real choices facing today’s urban planners, while demonstrating that a meaningful, co-operative and peaceful dialogue between Palestinians and the Israelis is desirable and within reach. The book continues the dialogue between the two Teams in Berlin and Jerusalem. The JBF is not meant to provide one-directional recommendations but rather to engage both sides in a fruitful dialogue that allows comparisons between the positive and negative developments in the two cities. This dialogue allows to explore the opportunities, challenges and contradictions that characterise both cities and to draw mutually benefitial lessons from this analysis.

Divided Cities in Transition II draws upon past lessons and proposed pragmatic policies for the future. Thus it attempts to chart a sustainable and fruitful peace for the peoples of Jerusalem, which may well reflect on the entire region.