Khaled Abu Awwad is the General Manager of the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum and Chairman of Al-Tariq (The Palestinian Institution for Development and Democracy). He was awarded the 2011 UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence. In 2014 he co-founded, with a Rabbi, the group βRootsβ, which aims to foster dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis.