Dr. Nimrod Rosler

I am the academic head of the International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, and co-lead the Peace Index as well as the Palestinian-Israeli Pulse. My studies deal with psychological and social aspects of political conflicts and their resolution, such as territorial ownership, gender, emotions and leadership, as well as developing innovative psychological interventions to promote peace. I am a principal investigator on an ISF-funded project that studies preparedness for negotiation among elites and the public in the Israeli-Palestinian and Cypriot conflicts.

Education

2014-2015 – Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2005-2012 – PhD, the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2001-2005 – MA (cum laude), the Program for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1996-2000 – BA (cum laude), Social Sciences, The Open University.

Selected Publications

Rosler, N. & Yakter, A. (2026). The Trump effect in Israel. Foreign Affairs.

Ben-Ezer, I., Rosler, N., Sharvit, K., Wiener-Blotner, O., Bar-Tal, D., Nasie, M., & Hameiri, B. (2025). From Acceptance to Change: The Role of Acceptance in the Effectiveness of the Informative Process Model for Conflict Resolution. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12802.

Rosler, N., Wiener-Blotner, O., Heskiau, O., Sharvit, K. (2024). Understanding reactions to Informative Process Model interventions: Ambivalence as a mechanism of change. Behavioral Sciences, 14(12), 1152. 

Warnke, K., Martinović, B., & Rosler, N. (2024). Understanding territorial ownership perceptions in the Israel/Palestine conflict: A person-centred approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(1), 31-47.

Rosler, N., Hameiri, B., Bar-Tal, D., & Or, M.S. (2023). Perceiving change on the other side of the conflict: A pathway to reconciliation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 96, 101861.

Rosler, N. & Press-Barnathan, G. (2023). Cultural Sanctions and Ontological (in)Security: Operationalization in the Context of Mega-Events. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 36(5), 720-744.

Rosler, N., Yuchtman-Yaar, E., & Alkalay, Y. (2023). Gender and attitudes towards a peace agreement in situations of intractable conflict: The case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Political Psychology, 44(2), 361-382.

Rosler, N., Sharvit, K., Hameiri, B., Weiner-Blotner, O., Idan, O., & Bar-Tal, D. (2022). The Informative Process Model as a new intervention for attitude change in intractable conflicts: Theory and empirical evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 946410.

Storz, N., Martinović, B., Rosler, N. (2022). Support for conciliatory policies in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The role of different modes of identification and territorial ownership perceptions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 769643.

Storz, N., Bilali, R., Martinović, B., Maloku, E., Rosler, N., Žeželj, I. (2022). Collective victimhood and support for joint political decision-making in conflict regions: The role of shared territorial ownership perceptions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(3), 472-486.

Rosler, N., Hameiri, B., Bar-Tal, D., Christophe, D., & Azarya-Tamir, S. (2021). Current and Future Costs of Intractable Conflicts – Can They Create Attitude Change? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 681883.

Rosler, N., Hagage Baikovich, H., & Bar-Tal, D. (2021). Rhetorical expressions of ethos of conflict and policymaking in intractable conflict: A comparative study of Israeli Prime Ministers. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(3), 381-392.

Rosler, N. & Branscombe, N. R. (2020). Inclusivity of past collective trauma and its implications for current intractable conflict: The mediating role of moral lessons. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 171-188.

Rosler, N. (2019). The creation of space for conflict change: Context, society and leadership in Northern Ireland during the 1990s. In M. F. Elman, C. Gerard, G. Golan, & L. Kriesberg (Eds.), Overcoming Intractable Conflicts: New Approaches to Constructive Transformations (pp. 123-141). Rowman and Littlefield.

Rosler, N., Sharvit, K. & Bar-Tal, D. (2018). Perceptions of prolonged occupation as barriers to conflict resolution. Political Psychology, 39(3), 519-538.

David, Y. Rosler, N., & Maoz, I. (2018). Gender-empathic constructions, empathy and support for compromises in intractable conflict. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Rosler, N., Cohen-Chen, S., & Halperin, E. (2017). The distinctive effects of empathy and hope in intractable conflicts. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 61(1), 114-139.

Rosler, N. (2016). Leadership and peacemaking: Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 54, 55-67.