ADI LEVY, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Florida Atlantic University
Languages: English and Hebrew—Mother tongue level | Spanish and French—Basic
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EDUCATION
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2023: Post-Doctoral:
Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship.
College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University
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2022: Ph.D.:
School of Political Sciences,
Dissertation topic: The Ethical Challenges of Nonviolent Resistance.
The University of Haifa
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2016: MA: Diplomacy Studies:
School of Political Sciences. MA thesis: Racism and Nonviolent Resistance.
The University of Haifa.
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2010: B. A: Social Sciences.
International Relations and Communications.
The Open University of Israel.
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ACADEMIC TEACHING
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2023: Florida Atlantic University: World Politics, Military Ethics in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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2022-2023:
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Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem: Civil Struggles for Social and Political Change.
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University of Haifa: “The People Demand Social Justice”—Ethical Dilemmas in Civil Resistance and Activism. (A course developed based on Ph.D.).
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2016-2021: Military Ethics—Teaching assistant.
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2016/2019: Introduction to International Relations—Teaching Assistant
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
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2023:
Adi Levy and Michael L Gross. How moral injury and combat trauma drive political activism and societal reintegration among Israeli veterans. Pre-print
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Adi Levy (2023) Promoting defections through non-violent resistance tactics - the case of the Syrian uprising, Critical Military Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2023.2170528
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2022:
Uri Hertz, Keren L.G. Snider, Adi Levy, Daphna Canetti, Michael L. Gross. To shoot or not to shoot: Experiments on moral injury in the context of West Bank checkpoints and Covid-19 restrictions enforcement. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.haifa.ac.il/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2021.2013651
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Works in Progress​
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Armed and Unarmed Environmental Violence—The Case of Incendiary Kites and Balloons in the Gaza-Israel conflict. International Theory. (Studies in Conflict and Terrorism - Under Review)
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The Social Boycott in Nonviolent Resistance. Manuscript in Progress.
ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
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Levy, A. (2022) Does intersectionality pose a problem for human rights? ABC Religion & Ethics. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/intersectionality-and-human-rights/13720938
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Levy, A. (2018). Hamas Political Jiu-Jitsu. The Jerusalem Post. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/hamas-political-jiu-jitsu-549092
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Selected)
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2023:
Non-Violent Resistance: Multi-disciplinary perspectives from the past, present, and future for today’s democracies. Presentation: Nonviolent Resistance: The Ethical Challenges.
Bar Ilan University, Israel
ISA 2023 Annual Convention - March 15th - 18th, 2023: Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity. Presentation: The Ethical Problem of Social Boycotts in Nonviolent Resistance.
Montreal Canada
2018:
EuroISME: International Society of Military Ethics “The Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies in Warfare.” Panelist. Presentation: Ethics and Military Defections.
Toledo, Spain:
2017:
International Association for Students of Political Sciences: Racism as a Nonviolent Resistance tactic. Truth and Politics: Panelist, chair, and discussant.
Bremen, Germany.
Telos Press NYU: Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic.
New York
Guest Talks
2016:
The BDS Movement and its international influences. Congregation Kehilath Israel,
Boston, Massachusetts.
GRANTS
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Awarded:
2023: The Israel Democracy Institute—Three-year Post-Doctoral fellowship
2019: Israel Sciences Foundation (ISF)—submitted with academic advisor based on my Ph.D. research
2018: Ph.D. Studies four-year grant—School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa.
2017: The Jewish Statesmanship Center: Ph.D. fellowship.
Submitted:
2020: The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
2018: The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)—Ph.D. fellowship
2017: ZEIT-Stiftung: Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2021 - Current:
Israel Defense Forces, Education and Youth Corps. Soldiers and commanders training programs’ consultant and advisor: Military Ethics and Civil-Military Relations. Work includes writing educational policy papers for the training of officers and units commanders.
2019-2022:
The Reut Group—Socio-political analyst. Topics of Research: (1) Delegitimizing Israel and modern antisemitism (2) Jewish peoplehood and Israel and World Jewry Relations. Work included: applying unique analytical methodologies for research and writing policy papers, drafting grant applications, and involvement in the management of a community of representatives from the public sector and governmental organizations.
2015-2017:
Ambassadors Online (University of Haifa): Academic program in public diplomacy—Training students to confront online antisemitism and hate speech. General management: fundraising and budget management; events organization; coordinating public relations with external organizations.
INTERNSHIPS:
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2018: Legal Grounds: Internship: Israel and the International Law.
2017: ICRC: International Committee of the Red Cross: Member of Haifa University delegation to ICRC national competition on International Humanitarian Israel.
2014: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Digital department intern.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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2019:
Universita Ba’am— ‘Access for All’—Advisor and Instructors’ trainer. The University of Haifa Branch. A national project striving to render higher education accessible to members of disadvantaged populations. The project offers academic introductory courses in Law, Psychology and Paramedicine.
2006:
The “Perach” Tutorial Project: Israeli educational project. Assigning students to empower and mentor schoolchildren facing social challenges.
2000:
Seeds of Peace: An international project aimed at promoting dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli youth. Israeli delegation representative.