Uri Rosenberg is the co-founder and Israeli Director of Yad Beyad, a joint Israeli and Palestinian grassroots conflict resolution initiative. Uri has years of experience leading workshops between young people in conflict regions; Israel-Palestine, the Balkans, Turks-Kurds, and the Caucasus. He is currently a PhD. student in Middle East studies at Tel Aviv University and is researching the ideology of the Islamist party in Turkey between 1970-1996.