What does the future hold for humanity in these uncertain times? While living in a battered, conflicted, and unstable global reality, it seems difficult to imagine a less embroiled reality.
Reflections on Conflict Resolution offers hope that there might be ways to resolve, or at least mitigate, even complex, violent, and protracted conflicts between communities and nations. This volume presents the state of the art in a decade-long analysis of conflict resolution in the Middle East and beyond.
The 15 articles by the author and his co-authors contain policy ideas, dilemmas, research, and analysis: dealing with social media and peacemaking as well as with negotiating climate politics; transcending from grappling with Anti-Semitism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution; and analyzing the negotiations that led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as Israeli-Arab peacemaking.
The book is an essential reading for anyone interested in either conflict resolution, negotiations, peacebuilding, history, politics or the Middle East, be it an academician, a practitioner, a politician, a civil society activist, a student or an insatiable knowledge seeker.
Contents:
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A New Horizon for the Middle East and North Africa
- Conflict Resolution and Social Activism:
- Social Media and Peacebuilding: Could Mindsets be Positively Affected? (Gilead Sher and Elias Sturm)
- A New Role for the Public in Climate Politics: The Effect of Social Media (Gilead Sher and Adelaide Duckett)
- Anti-Semitism in Europe: Could Negotiation Tools Help the Combat? (Gilead Sher and Johanna-Rebecca Rübcke)
- Israeli-Palestinian Outlook:
- The Partition Plan (Gilead Sher)
- Just Don't Do It: The Ramifications of a Termination of the Oslo Accords (Gilead Sher)
- The EU and a Two-State Solution: Prospects for Change? (Gilead Sher)
- A Framework Agreement for an Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Peace (Gilead Sher)
- Arab-Israeli Perspective:
- The Grand Bargain that is the Mideast's Best Hope (Shai Feldman and Gilead Sher)
- The United Arab Emirates and Israel Just Came Clean on Their Extra-Marital Affair (Gilead Sher and Yoel Guzansky)
- Israel's Peacemaking Under Security Challenges: Implications of a Retrospective Outlook (Gilead Sher and Adelaide Duckett)
- United States-Israel-Iran Context:
- Diplomacy or Driving a Hard Bargain? Lessons from the Negotiation that Led to the Iran Nuclear Deal (Emily B Landau and Gilead Sher)
- US-Iran Negotiations: A Guide for the Perplexed (Gilead Sher and Daniel Cohen)
- Reflections on Conflict Resolution in the Absence of Negotiations:
- Peace Without Partners (Ami Ayalon, Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher)
- When Negotiations Fail to Bear Fruit: The Case for Constructive Independent Steps (Gilead Sher)
- To Heal Divisions Among the Jewish People, Divide the Land (Gilead Sher and Robert Mnookin)
- Epilogue
- Index
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, lecturers, officials, diplomats, national security experts, and practitioners in the fields of conflict resolution, negotiations, political science, security, government, international relations, Middle East studies, and history.
Key Features:
- Provides a broad, multi-dimensional outlook at conflict resolution in general, and in the Middle East in particular
- Benefits from the author's rich, vast experience in diplomacy, policy planning, research, leadership, and law, derived from his role as a seasoned peace, business and international negotiator
