1st Edition

Jordanian-Israeli Relations The peacebuilding experience

By Mutayyam al O'ran Copyright 2009
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel was unique as it bore the promise of what was termed a "warm" peace between the two warring countries. With legitimacy provided by Madrid and Oslo, hopes for "true" peace, as the Israelis would describe it, were high. This book explores the Jordanian-Israeli relations from a Jordanian perspective, focusing on the peacebuilding experience since 1994. In examining... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Long Journey To Peace: Jordanian-Israeli Relations until the Treaty of Peace of 1994  3. Achieving and Building Peace  4. Obstacles to a Warm Peace at the Structural Level  5. The Refugee Question and Peace  6. Leaderships and the Peacebuilding Process  7. The Road to a Warm Peace

Biography

Dr. Mutayyam al O’ran holds a Ph.D. in international conflict analysis and international relations from the University of Kent, UK. Her areas of expertise include international relations, conflict resolution/transformation and peacebuilding, in addition to Arab-Israeli relations and politics. She is a member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and has published a number of articles in academic journals.

'The author looks at the period from 1994 to 2003 and seeks to uncover the obstacles to waging peace for both parties, determine the effects of the leadership role in Jordan, detail the necessary conditions to achieve peace in either society, and then determine additional steps that might be taken to further this goal.]...[Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - S. R. Silverburg, Catawba College, CHOICE July 2009