Turism beskrivs ofta som världens "fredsindustri", då turismsektorn har potential att föra samman människor på olika sätt. Samtidigt visar empiriska studier att turismen som fredssskapare är en komplex företeelse. För att undersöka denna fråga fokuserar detta projekt på turismens roll inom ramen för den konfliktfyllda Israel-Palestina-kontexten. Projektet undersöker fenomenet "turism" inom de palestinska territorierna Betlehem och Ramallah.
Vetenskapliga artiklar, böcker och kapitel i böcker:
- Gelbman, A. & Laven, D. (2016). Re-envisioning community-based heritage tourism in the old city of Nazareth. Journal of Heritage Tourism, vol. 11, pp. 105-125.
- Hammami, F. & Laven, D. (2017). Rethinking heritage from peace : reflections from the Palestinian-Israeli context. In Heritage and peacebuilding. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer (Heritage matters). pp. 137-148.
- Laven, D. (2015). Heritage development and community resilience : Insights for the era of climate change. In The Future of Heritage as Climates Change : Loss, Adaptation and Creativity. New York, NY : Routledge (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage). pp. 167-179.
- Shepherd, J. & Laven, D. (2020). Hostels in Hostile Territory : Tourist Spaces of Transformative Dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian Context. In Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation. Hershey : IGI Global. pp. 195-217.
- Shepherd, J. & Laven, D. (2020). Providing counter-narratives : the positive role of hostels in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Tourism Geographies, vol. 22: 4-5, pp. 848-871.
- Shepherd, J. , Laven, D. & Shamma, L. (2020). Autoethnographic journeys through contested spaces. Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 84.
- Stenvall, A. , Laven, D. & Gelbman, A. (2017). The Influence of Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism on an Arab Village in Israel. In Social Entrepreneurship and Tourism: Philosophy and Practice. Cham : Springer (Tourism on the Verge). pp. 279-293.
- Walters, D. (ed.) , Laven, D. (ed.) & Davis, P. (ed.) (2017). Heritage and peacebuilding. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer (Heritage matters Vol. 21).
