Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor received a Residency Fellowship at The Rockefeller Foundation Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy (July 2025). The Bellagio Center supports leaders to advance novel solutions and develop partnerships that may at first seem unlikely — unlocking breakthroughs essential to humanity’s well-being.

Cohen-Almagor received his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He is president of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). A peace activist and scholar, Cohen-Almagor is completing his most important book Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Mediation, Facilitation and Negotiations between Israel and the PLO (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He has published 19 books and more than 350 articles. Professor Cohen-Almagor was the co-founder of Israel’s Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Organization, and founder of The University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think Tank, and The Middle East Study Centre of Hull University. Cohen-Almagor was the Yitzhak Rabin-Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Department of Communication, Visiting Professor at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (twice), Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and The 2023 Olof Palme Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden. In 2024–2025, Cohen-Almagor received the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship and, for the second time, the Rockefeller Foundation Center (Bellagio) Fellowship. His work bridges political theory, ethics, and conflict resolution with a lifelong commitment to human rights, peace, social responsibility and democracy.