This program is conducted by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research in Tel Aviv University (TSC) and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah (PSR) with the assistance of the Ford Foundation. The aim of the program is to give Israelis and Palestinians an opportunity to become familiar with the narratives and realities of the other side to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, thereby, hopefully, perforating the cognitive wall that sets them apart.

The program consists of: (a) parallel study groups of Israelis and Palestinians from various professional fields - civil servants, academics, NGO activists, and so on, to be taught, in a series of meetings, by lecturers of the other side to the conflict about the political, social, cultural, and economic realities "across the border"; (b) a homepage (the current one) partly open to the public that will include relevant information - documents, lecture transcripts, reading lists, and so on - about the two societies; (c) library/databases (to be integrated later into the current homepage) - the TSC will further develop its own existing database on Israeli-Palestinian cooperation, while the PSR will establish its library/database on current Israeli public opinion.