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From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking

Remarks of Frederic C. Hof, The Palestine Center of the Jerusalem Fund, March 20, 2008
Fred Hof, a keen Middle East observer and former member of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, presented a paper on the current Israeli-Palestinian situation, “From Mitchell to Annapolis and Beyond: Thoughts on the American Role in Palestinian-Israeli Peacemaking” at the Palestine […]

The Middle East Peace Process: the case for jaw-jaw not war-war

By Michael Ancram, Accord (Issue 19), Conciliation Resources, 2008
When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that they declared me ‘contaminated’ and withdrew from talks with me. Yet as a direct result of those initial communications in the early 1990s we now have the makings […]

Refusing talk to facilitate talk – the paradox of Islamist dialogue: An overdue task or an exercise in appeasement?

The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB — Lecture by Alastair Crooke, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, January 17, 2008
“So, you spoke to the leaders of Hezbollah?”
“Yes”
“And you also speak with the leaders of Hamas?”
“Yes”
“And they told you that they support democracy?”
“Yes”
“And you […]

“Follow Us Not Them” - The Ramallah Model: Washington’s Palestinian Failure

A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Geoffrey Aronson, November, 2007
George Bush’s “vision” of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on the supremacy of the “Ramallah model” over the “Gaza model.” U.S. policy intends that the advantages championed by Ramallah in negotiations with Israel and the economic revival enabled by international assistance will “strengthen Abu […]

Bottom-up peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories

Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007
Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of this interview was published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Al-Majdal, […]

The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory from the Islamist Perspective

A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Azzam Tamimi, November, 2007
The Hamas election victory in January of 2006 sent shockwaves through the Arab world — and through Islamists with varying convictions. The debate among Islamists over whether Hamas should have participated in the elections has been intense. But Hamas’s willingness to maintain its principled non-acceptance of the […]