As frequent droughts and water scarcity complicate the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Environmental Peacebuilding became an increasingly present and internationally well-funded tool of conflict resolution in the region. On a grassroots level, these initiatives exclude politics from their agenda to ensure meetings are ‘on eye level.’ This thesis seeks to understand how the bi-national power asymmetries between Israel and Palestine influence and manifest themselves in the individual encounter between Israelis and Palestinians in a grassroots Environmental Peacebuilding program. The thesis is based on eight qualitative interviews with Israeli and Palestinian staff and participants of the regional Climate Diplomacy workshop by the NGO EcoPeace Middle East. The thematic analysis reveals feelings of equality between individual participants and the simultaneous manifestation of power imbalances on several levels between the two groups. This imbalance creates differences in the way the Israeli and Palestinian participants perceive and experience the workshop and its set-up. The findings challenge EcoPeace’s exclusion of politics in the workshop since a discussion of political matters and power asymmetries is deemed crucial to reach the conflict’s core.