CV Mahmoud Soliman

He has more than 20 years of experience in organising non-violent campaigns and non-violent collective actions against the construction of the Segregation Wall and Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine. He is one of the founders of the Palestinian non-violent popular resistance network called the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC) and co-founder of the non-violent popular resistance committee in the southern Bethlehem area of occupied Palestine. The PSCC was established in 2009 by grassroots activists from the various villages in occupied Palestine who had resisted the Segregation Wall and the forced displacement of communities over the previous decade. It has functioned as an umbrella organisation supporting non-violent campaigns with material resources and strategic planning and building the capacities of activists.

Mahmoud has conducted several research projects in collaboration with research centres in different universities in the UK and the US. His research focuses on non-violent resistance, protection of unarmed civilians and mobilisation. His current research is on the protection of unarmed civilians in Masaf Yatta.

He has published several journal articles on youth capacity building through a participatory oral history project: The South Hebron Hills case study. A monograph on Civil Resistance Movements and Material Resources with ICNC.

Since 2011, Soliman has been coordinating several projects in Palestine in the field of human rights protection, upgrading Sumud villages and youth capacity building projects. In the last two years, Soliman has coordinated a project called "On Our Land" in marginalised communities in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley in occupied Palestine to protect their cultural heritage from Israeli occupation.

Soliman was recognised by various human rights organisations, such as Protect Defenders. He was stationed in the UK between 2015 and 2019. He has recently written "Resistance in Occupied Palestine and the Use of Creative International Solidarity through Song" to be published in the international journal Journal of Arts & Communities. Rethinking the Everyday Domestic Sphere: Palestinian Women as Environmentalist and Anti-Colonial Warriors.