ABSTRACT
This exploration set out to examine, describe and explain how the ubiquitous Muslim/Arab customary justice practice of Sulha works within the Arab population of northern Israel. The study did not limit itself to an examination of the public Sulha ceremony, which marks the end of the process. Instead, it explored each of the Sulha's seven stages, in detail and in depth, using interviews, surveys, questionnaires, analysis of existing literature, informants’ insights and, for the first time, participant observations by the author from within the most confidential moments of the process, such as the initiation of the Sulha process by the perpetrator's clan, the recruitment of the victim's clan, the internal negotiations of the Jaha with the disputants’ representatives and internal Jaha deliberations.
