ABSTRACT

This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and processes for building a peacemaking platform.

The primary aim of this book is to analyze the crucial roles and capacities of mid-level, nongovernmental peacemakers as they provide unique approaches to transforming the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It also aims to analyze and experience dialogue as the primary mode of peacemaking communication. The two-part format of this book creates a structural dialogue. Part One provides an academic introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, why it matters, the role of identities, and strategies for transforming the conflict based on international law and human rights. Part Two is presented in a dialogue format, providing further conflict analysis through storytelling and dialogues with peacemakers.

This book will be of great interest to anyone engaged with peace and conflict transformation, ethnography, social justice, communication studies, and Middle Eastern studies, human rights and international law.

part I|88 pages

Analysis for a Just Peace

chapter 2|14 pages

Coming to Terms

chapter 3|15 pages

A Conflict of Identities

chapter 4|15 pages

Peacemaker Identities

chapter 5|14 pages

Dialogues for a Just Peace

chapter 6|14 pages

A Platform for a Just Peace

part II|232 pages

Dialogues with Peacemakers

chapter 8|11 pages

The Lessons of Engagement

chapter 9|12 pages

Jewish Tradition and Human Rights

chapter 10|8 pages

Peacemaking and Nation-building

chapter 11|12 pages

A Journey for Justice and Peace

chapter 12|13 pages

Changing Public Opinion in Israel

chapter 13|13 pages

The Power of Nonviolence

chapter 14|11 pages

The Business of Peacemaking

chapter 15|10 pages

What Reconciliation Requires

chapter 17|8 pages

Get Up, Move Ahead, Make Peace

chapter 18|11 pages

A Comprehensive Solution

chapter 19|19 pages

Struggles for a Just Peace

chapter 21|8 pages

Telling the Whole Truth

chapter 22|11 pages

A Mandate for Human Rights

chapter 23|12 pages

The Only Nonviolent Alternative

chapter 24|13 pages

The Infrastructure of Hope

chapter 25|13 pages

Work for the Common Good

chapter 26|12 pages

Three Sails for Gaza

chapter 27|7 pages

A Better World for All of Us