Solutions To Violence | Ira Grupper & Russ Vandenbroucke | Palestine-Israel Conflict | 7-23-23

Solutions to Violence features Ira Grupper and Russ Vandenbroucke. Their topic is the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

Russ Vandenbroucke earned his doctorate of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama and has worked as director, dramaturge, playwright and producer at regional theatres across the country. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, and a Rotary Foundation World Peace Fellow in Thailand, where he adapted and directed the play, An Evening with Global Peacemakers. Dr. Vandenbroucke was the founding director of the University of Louisville’s Peace, Justice & Conflict Transformation program. He last visited Israel and the Occupied Territories of Palestine in 2016 through the American Research Center.

Ira Grupper has been a political activist for over 60 years. He has been a teacher of Civil Rights and the history of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Ira is a Bellarmine emeritus professor and has been conducted into the Kentucky Civil Rights Hall of Fame. Ira Grupper has traveled throughout Israel and the Palestinian territories. He has served as cochair of the New Jewish Agenda which has 5000 members. Ira has been involved in labor, disability and human rights movements covering those issues as a journalist.