Who's who in Coexist International Magazine
Initial funding: Alan B. Slifka
Businessman Alan B. Slifka's family foundation funded the first issue of the magazine and supports the website. Slifka, a passionate advocate of the coexistence ideal, also founded the Abraham Fund to promote Jewish-Arab projects, and The Coexistence Initiative.
Project director: Dr Irit Keynan
Dr. Irit Keynan is a professional historian and Haifa University lecturer. She was a founding executive director of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies. She is on the executive board of Weizmann Institute Archives and board of the Strochlitz Institute of Holocaust Studies, Haifa University. She taught at Tel Aviv University school of education and Jewish history departments. She has written numerous articles on Holocaust survivors and a book on the same subject which won the prestigious Yitzhak Sadeh Prize in 1997.
International advisory board
Ambassador Gunduz Aktan
Director of the Istanbul-based Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
Prof. Mari Fitzduff
Director INCORE, Professor of Conflict Studies, Magee College, University
of Ulster.
Prof. Eduard Klain , MD, Ph.D.
Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb.
President of the Croatian Institute of group Analysis.
Sandra D. Melone
The European Centre for Common Ground (ECCG), Belgium
Dr Joyce Neu
Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University
of San Diego, USA
Alan B. Slifka
New York investment banker active in business, civic and philanthropic
affairs. He is a founder, director or officer of numerous for-profit and
not-for-profit corporations and foundations.
Prof. Vamik D. Volkan
A psychiatrist by profession, Volkan is director of the Center for
Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia.
