Download or read book Who can bring peace The role of external actors in the Israeli Palestinian peace process written by Julia Heise and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-05-21 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 63% (1,7), University of Edinburgh, course: The Middle East in International Politics, language: English, abstract: The Arab-Israeli conflict, the dominant theme regarding the International Relations of the Middle East, is“(...) one of the most bitter, protracted and intractable conflicts of modern times.” (Shlaim, 2005: 242). At its core lies the Israeli-Palestinian problem, which will be addressed in this essay and which mainly refers to the dispute between the Jewish and Palestinian national movements over Palestine.1 This dispute is multidimensional: “(...) religious, political, cultural, economic and psychological elements pile up and feed each other to create a seemingly indissoluble impasse.” (Korany, 2005: 64). Some attempts have been made in the past to find a peaceful solution for Israelis and Palestinians - but these did not result in the success that was hoped for. However, by considering several recent developments it appears that new opportunities to end the conflict are within reach. Against this background it becomes necessary to discuss the impact of Israelis, Palestinians and external actors on a possible peace, which will be the purpose of this essay. The paper first provides an overview about the main issues of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Section two then reflects on the development of the peace-process in the past and in this context analyses the roles of Israel, Palestine and external actors that were involved. This is essential to be able to draw a profound conclusion regarding the current situation, which is discussed in section three by addressing two questions: A) What are the chances for peace? B) Who plays a major role in this context? The essay concludes by answering the question of whether it is only the conflict-parties and not external actors who could bring peace. 1 Shlaim, 2005: 242. However, the conflict is complicated by inter-Arab relations and the involvement of outside powers.
Download or read book War and Peace in Transition written by Karin Aggestam and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic approach to analyzing some of the transient aspects of war and peace with empirical cases that include Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Armenian genocide, this book discusses some of the critical and transformative issues in war and peacemaking. Considering subjects such as the roles of private military and security companies, the use of force in peace-support operations, how states, organizations, and individuals contribute to conflict resolution, and the challenge of coordinating various peacemaking efforts, this study explores the manifold demands and challenges facing external actors such as international peacekeeping forces and mediators.
Download or read book Bridging the Divide Understanding the Israel Palestine Conflict Role of Hamas Hezbollah and Iran written by Ashu Dhyani and published by Fantabulous Publishers India. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world marked by ongoing conflict, the Israel-Palestine conflict remains a poignant and complex challenge to global peace. Bridging the Divide delves deep into the heart of this ongoing struggle, offering an insightful exploration of its historical roots, contemporary dynamics, and hopes for resolution. This book takes the reader on a captivating journey through the complex web of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From the beginnings of the Zionist movement and the Palestinian struggle for self-determination to the complex web of international actors involved, it offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity of the conflict. It addresses the core issues with a balanced perspective and examines topics such as territorial claims, religious dimensions and the role of key actors in the region. With detailed analysis and a focus on understanding the perspectives of Israelis and Palestinians, Bridging the Divide paints a comprehensive picture of a conflict that has shaped the Middle East and captured international attention for decades. The book discusses the challenges of a peaceful solution and examines the role of external actors, civil society organizations and non-governmental groups in promoting dialogue and advocating for human rights. As the legacy of conflict endures, Bridging the Divide seeks to promote a deeper understanding of its history, its complexities, and the possible paths to peace. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Middle East, international relations, and the pursuit of a more harmonious world. Dive into the heart of one of the world's most enduring conflicts with Bridging the Divide and gain a better understanding of the complex web of history, politics and humanity that defines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Download or read book The Israeli Palestinian Conflict and the Politics of the Quartet written by Lee Daniel Schrader and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Quartet' is an informal diplomatic mechanism designed to coordinate the efforts of major actors within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Formed in 2001, the grouping is composed of representatives from the United States, the European Union, Russia and the Office of the UN Secretary General. Existing analysis of the Quartet, especially concerning the capacity of the grouping to facilitate both individual and collective outcomes for its members, is in some respects misleading. This thesis establishes the historical precedents to the formation of the Quartet, and examines the outputs and outcomes of the grouping within the politico-strategic context of the Middle East peace process from 2001-2011. It presents each of the Quartet members as actors, who, while working in support of a peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians, also hoped to advance their national or organisational objectives through the association itself. By examining the interplay between the complimentary and competing agendas and capabilities of the Quartet members, the thesis aims to provide enhanced insight into the role of external parties in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Accordingly, it examines the key factors that motivated individual governments and institutions to form the Quartet, and analyses the extent to which the Quartet members had both collective and individual objectives for the grouping. In examining whether these objectives were achieved during the period, the thesis argues that the outcomes of the Quartet were shaped by its internal decision-making processes, the exclusivity of the US-Israel relationship, the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the regional contexts in which its members sought collective influence. It argues that the Quartet demonstrated potential as a diplomatic tool, although in practice it had greater utility as a forum for coordination among its members than for influencing the behaviour of the parties to the conflict.
Download or read book World Report 2018 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Download or read book Blind Spot written by Khaled Elgindy and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of the history of US-Palestinian relations The United States has invested billions of dollars and countless diplomatic hours in the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two-state solution. Yet American attempts to broker an end to the conflict have repeatedly come up short. At the center of these failures lay two critical factors: Israeli power and Palestinian politics. While both Israelis and Palestinians undoubtedly share much of the blame, one also cannot escape the role of the United States, as the sole mediator in the process, in these repeated failures. American peacemaking efforts ultimately ran aground as a result of Washington’s unwillingness to confront Israel’s ever-deepening occupation or to come to grips with the realities of internal Palestinian politics. In particular, the book looks at the interplay between the U.S.-led peace process and internal Palestinian politics—namely, how a badly flawed peace process helped to weaken Palestinian leaders and institutions and how an increasingly dysfunctional Palestinian leadership, in turn, hindered prospects for a diplomatic resolution. Thus, while the peace process was not necessarily doomed to fail, Washington’s management of the process, with its built-in blind spot to Israeli power and Palestinian politics, made failure far more likely than a negotiated breakthrough. Shaped by the pressures of American domestic politics and the special relationship with Israel, Washington’s distinctive “blind spot” to Israeli power and Palestinian politics has deep historical roots, dating back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate. The size of the blind spot has varied over the years and from one administration to another, but it is always present.
Download or read book An Evasive Peace written by Stene Verhulst and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to better understand and investigate why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains both protracted and resistant to attempts at peaceful resolution this thesis seeks to highlight and examine previous official level negotiations and the selected peacebuilding efforts of multiple organizations working to resolve the conflict. Specifically, this thesis seeks to investigate why, despite efforts made by actors operating at various levels since the Oslo Accords, there appears to be such little progress towards building a lasting and sustainable peace. Drawing upon insights from recent peacebuilding theory, this thesis seeks to investigate who and what peacebuilding theory suggests should be involved in order for peacebuilding to be advanced in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Peacebuilding literature suggests middle range actors which are placed between official level 'elites' and grass roots leaders can be catalysts and facilitators for both top-down and bottom-up peace processes. These middle range actors which are often religious leaders, academics, and humanitarian leaders (NGOs) are uniquely and centrally placed within a society to best construct the kind of 'peace infrastructure' required for sustainable peace. Given their unique role in peacebuilding theory, this thesis investigates the peacebuilding efforts of three middle range actors from within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, namely Seeds of Peace, B'Tselem, and Herbert Kelman's problem solving workshops. These actors all engage in peacebuilding in diverse ways. Seeds of Peace is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that focuses on equipping teenagers to build a sustainable peace. B'Tselem, another NGO, pursues peacebuilding via published work and lobbying. Lastly, Kelman's problem solving workshops pursue peacebuilding by bringing a variety of actors from within the societies together. By investigating these actors contributions to peacebuilding and the broader peace infrastructure within Israel and Palestine this thesis concludes that these actors have made positive contributions to the envisioned goal of sustained peace. While this thesis acknowledges and highlights these actors' successes in light of peacebuilding theory it also posits there are opportunities throughout the conflict and the peacebuilding community that these actors can take advantage of. In reaching this conclusion the following pages examine the selected actors processes and goals and appropriately places them in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Download or read book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRESIDENT CARTER'S COURAGEOUS ASSESSMENT OF WHAT MUST BE DONE TO BRING PERMANENT PEACE TO ISRAEL WITH DIGNITY AND JUSTICE TO PALESTINE
Download or read book Third Party Intervention in Conflict Resolution written by Balqees Janahi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the role the United States has played in the meditation process of the Israeli-Palestine conflict during the Clinton Administration. The paper described the role of third party intervention through outlining the theories of conflict resolution and the power of mediation. This paper is important because it details the United States' involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian pence process and highlights the implications of this intervention in the outcome of the conflict. The paper concludes that in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the United States during the Clinton Administration proved to have had a vital role in initiating negotiations between the two parties through utilizing hard power techniques. However, it is important to also understand that unless the disputing parties are willing to work together to forge a solution, no amount of peacemaking efforts can bring a lasting peace among them.
Download or read book Resolving the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Moises F. Salinas and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of papers and keynote presentations that were delivered at a conference called "Pathways to Peace," which was held in March of 2008.
Download or read book Public Opinion in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict written by Jacob Shamir and published by United States Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Jewish State written by Theodor Herzl and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peace in International Relations written by Oliver P. Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, and in the policy world as exemplified through practices in the peacebuilding efforts since the end of the Cold War. Issues addressed include the problem of how peace efforts become sustainable rather than merely inscribed in international and state-level diplomatic and military frameworks. The book also explores themes relating to culture, development, agency and structure. It explores in particular the current mantras associated with the 'liberal peace', which appears to have become a foundational assumption of much of mainstream IR and the policy world. Analyzing war has often led to the dominance of violence as a basic assumption in, and response to, the problems of international relations. This book aims to redress the balance by arguing that IR now in fact offers a rich basis for the study of peace.
Download or read book Lobbying in EU Foreign Policy making written by Benedetta Voltolini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines lobbying in EU foreign policy-making and the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), focusing on EU foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It sheds light on the interactions between the EU and NSAs as well as the ways in which NSAs attempt to shape EU foreign policies. By analysing issues that have not yet received systematic attention in the literature, this book offers new insights into lobbying in EU foreign policy, EU relations surrounding the conflict and the EU’s broader role in the peace process. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political science, international relations, EU politics, EU foreign policy-making, Middle East studies and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Download or read book Peace Process written by William B. Quandt and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One message of Peace Process is that the United States has had, and will continue to have, a crucial role in helping Israel and her Arab neighbors reach peace. If American presidents play their role with skill, they can make a lasting contribution. But just as likely, they may misread the realities of the Middle East and add to the impasse by their own errors.
Download or read book Compromising Palestine written by Aharon Klieman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Choice
Download or read book Justice in Conflict written by Mark Kersten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the effects of interventions by the ICC on peace, justice and conflict processes. The 'peace versus justice' debate, wherein it is argued that the ICC has either positive or negative effects on 'peace', has spawned in response to the Court's propensity to intervene in conflicts as they still rage. This book is a response to, and a critical engagement with, this debate. Building on theoretical and analytical insights from the fields of conflict and peace studies, conflict resolution, and negotiation theory, the book develops a novel analytical framework to study the Court's effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. This framework is applied to two cases: Libya and northern Uganda. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the core of the book examines the empirical effects of the ICC on each case. The book also examines why the ICC has the effects that it does, delineating the relationship between the interests of states that refer situations to the Court and the ICC's institutional interests, arguing that the negotiation of these interests determines which side of a conflict the ICC targets and thus its effects on peace, justice, and conflict processes. While the effects of the ICC's interventions are ultimately and inevitably mixed, the book makes a unique contribution to the empirical record on ICC interventions and presents a novel and sophisticated means of studying, analyzing, and understanding the effects of the Court's interventions in Libya, northern Uganda - and beyond.
