Amneh Daoud Badran is Lecturer and Head of the Political Science Department, Al-Quds University, Palestine, and Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter, UK. From 2001-2005, she was the Director of the Jerusalem Centre for Women, actively involved in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding initiatives, and received the The Liberty Award by Dialogue on Diversity in 2003 in recognition of her work for the cause of conciliation and human rights.