Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract
The contribution explores the transformative approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the analysis of a dyadic interview with two former students of Rondine Cittadella della Pace, who are now Rondini d’oro and collaborators of the association: one Israeli participant and one Palestinian participant. Starting from the pedagogical framework of thirdness and hospitable mediation, the article investigates how the experience of coexistence and encounter fostered by Rondine makes possible a reworking of the image of the enemy, the emergence of forms of mutual trust, and the construction of a public testimony oriented toward peace. From a methodological perspective, the study adopts Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), considered particularly suitable for understanding how individuals make sense of biographically, emotionally, and politically dense experiences. The analysis of the two protagonists’ experience highlights the features of thirdness through three main thematic cores: the construction of the enemy through inherited images and representations of the conflict; the experience of encounter in Rondine’s third space as a rupture with the ordinary grammars of enmity; and the public testimony of the relationship as an exposure to external judgment and as a possible break with ethnic cohesion.
