Dimi Reider is a journalist, policy analyst and facilitator from Israel-Palestine. As a journalist, Dimi co-founded +972 Magazine, a Palestinian-Israeli media collective; and served as founding editor of The Lead, a British network of national and local publications, primarily in England’s post-industrial north. Dimi's work also appeared in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Nation, The Spectator, Haaretz, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and many others. As a facilitator, he has long been involved in building causeways between Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine, focusing on sharing knowledge and experience of conflict work in interface areas. Dimi's research at OBI is focusing on the applicability of the Othering and Belonging frameworks in Israel-Palestine, and, separately, in England, in the context of immigration and local identity. Both studies draw on cross-community practices developed in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and the peace process.
