1st Edition

Conflict and Peacemaking in Israel-Palestine Theory and Application

By Sapir Handelman Copyright 2011
160 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

The Israeli-Palestinian struggle is considered to be one of the most entrenched conflicts in the world. Presenting and evaluating interactive models of peacemaking and the phenomenon of intractable conflict, the book takes an in-depth look into specific models for peacemaking and applies them to the situation in Israel/Palestine. The argument centers around the idea that a multifaceted... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: General Background  1. Intractable Conflict as a Complex Phenomenon  2. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict  3. Between Conflict-Resolution and Conflict-Management  Part 2: Interactive Models of Peacemaking  4. The Strong-Leader Model  5. The Social-Reformer Model  6. The Political-Elite Model  7. The Public-Assembly Model.  Summary and Conclusion

Biography

Sapir Handelman is a visiting professor at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University, an associate at Harvard University and the Lentz Fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research. His research focuses on the study of destructive social conflicts and their resolution, political theory, and applied ethics. He also leads the "Minds of Peace Experiment" at various Centers for Peace Studies around the U.S. and the Middle East, a project which offers simulations of a potential Palestinian-Israeli public-assembly, a public negotiating congress, and is the recipient of the 2010 Peter Becker Award for Peace and Conflict Studies.