1st Edition

People-to-People Diplomacy in Israel and Palestine The Minds of Peace Experiment

Edited By Sapir Handelman Copyright 2014
168 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The Minds of Peace Experiment is a small-scale Israeli-Palestinian public negotiating congress. The exercise invites Israeli and Palestinian delegations to publicly negotiate solutions to their struggle over a limited period of sessions. The initiative is designed to demonstrate the peacemaking power of a major public negotiating congress, to evaluate its potential outcomes, and to get support... Read more

1. The Minds of Peace Experiment: a laboratory for people-to-people diplomacy  2. Between the Israeli – Palestinian conflict and the East –West Pakistan struggle: a challenge to the conventional wisdom  3. A Palestinian – Israeli public assembly and the American black church: two grassroots efforts to build the foundations of a decent social order  4. The social marketing of peace: grassroots movements, US foreign policy and the Israeli – Palestinian conflict  5. Locational factors in citizen peace negotiations  6. The Minds of Peace Experiment: conflict resolution from the ground up  7. Recognition, gender, and the negotiation of a non-violent future  8. The Minds of Peace and intergroup dialogue: two complementary approaches to peace  9. Political geography and grassroots conflict resolution

Biography

Sapir Handelman is an associate at the Psychology Department of Harvard University and the first scholar to receive the Lentz Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research three times. Sapir is the co-laureate of the 2010 Peter Becker Award for Peace and Conflict Research. Sapir has led the Minds of Peace Experiment – a small-scale Israeli-Palestinian public negotiating congress – in major universities around the U.S., Canada, and in the Middle East.