Dr.
Diana Dolev teaches at two schools of design in Israel and
researches the connections between national identity and
architecture. Her PhD dissertation analyzed the militarization of the
Mt. Scopus campus of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Diana has been an activist since 1980 when she facilitated a group of
Palestinian and Jewish students at the “Education for Peace”
program at Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, later introducing the
curriculum into six high schools in Israel. In 1987, Diana
established a branch of the Association for Civil Rights (ACRI) in
Beer Sheva then going on to found the “Gaza Team,” which
petitioned Israeli authorities against human rights violations in the
Gaza Strip. The team collected detailed testimonies and succeeded in
exposing Israeli atrocities in the mainstream media.
Since
initiating a weekly Women in Black vigil in Beer Sheva in 1988, Diana
has been consistently active with WIB, most recently as a member of
the organizing committee of the August 2005 international WIB
conference in Jerusalem.
Diana
has been a member of New Profile since the founding event in 1998,
mainly focusing her work with New Profile in the educational team.