Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak
Release Date: 12/02/2025
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Peace Activation in Israel-Palestine, with Eva Dalak
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Hosted by Matthew Green Produced by J’aime Rothbard. It’s often said that peace starts within. But what does that mean in practice? is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women’s empowerment coach with decades of experience as a gender and conflict expert working across Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Eva founded , a global peace initiative that brings Israelis and Palestinians together to heal divides by bearing witness to each other’s pain. She continues to host this space every...
info_outlineHosted by Matthew Green Produced by J’aime Rothbard.
It’s often said that peace starts within. But what does that mean in practice?
Eva Dalak is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women’s empowerment coach with decades of experience as a gender and conflict expert working across Africa, Latin America and Asia.
In the immediate aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, Eva founded Peace Activation, a global peace initiative that brings Israelis and Palestinians together to heal divides by bearing witness to each other’s pain. She continues to host this space every week and it is welcome to everybody.
Eva continued to deepen her Peace Activation work, even as the devastation unleashed by the Israeli military in Gaza intensified. In September 2025, a U.N. commission concluded that Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinians. Although a peace accord was signed the following month, the Israeli military has since killed hundreds more people, and the onset of winter has intensified the staggering scale of suffering inflicted on Gaza.
In this episode, Eva sets her present-day peace activation work in the context of her upbringing in Israel, early encounters with systemic discrimation, her work in 22 conflict zones – and the pivotal experience of temporarily losing her eyesight, as recounted in her new book Dancing in the Dark: How I Found My True Vision for Peace.
In an at times frank and powerfully outspoken exchange, Eva explains why she believes ‘truth-telling without dehumanisation’ is a key ingredient for peacebuilding – and outlines her vision of an awakened human future.
“We're all capable of being this perpetrator, just like we're all able to be this victim and we're all able to be the savior,” Eva says. “And so the-truth telling without dehumanisation means that we understand that we are one.”
This episode shows how years of painstaking inner work can equip us with the spaciousness needed to bring people together across seemingly unbridgeable divides – and what it means to build peace from the inside out.
Further Resources:
Dancing in the Dark: How I Found My True Vision for Peace (by Eva Dalak)
Palestine Trauma Relief Project (Pocket Project)
Jewish Trauma Relief Project (Pocket Project)
About Eva Dalak:
Eva Dalak is a Palestinian peace activator, international consultant, and women’s empowerment coach. She is the founder of Peace Activation, a global peace initiative that was created as a response to the crisis in Palestine and Israel and is rooted in the belief that sustainable peace begins within.
With over 30 years of experience as a gender and conflict expert, she leads trauma-informed, soul-centered initiatives, based on her experience and work with international organisations in over 22 conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, blending systemic change with personal and collective healing.
Born in Israel and now based in Costa Rica, Eva launched Peace Activation in 2023 in response to the escalating crisis in Israel-Palestine.
Fluent in five languages and trained in international development and law, spiritual psychology and somatic experience she combines grassroots depth with policy-level insight. Eva hosts the Peace is Possible podcast, and authors The Other Narrative Substack, sharing stories of resilience and hope from the frontlines of conflict.