ABSTRACT
Unambiguous Ambiguity: The Opacity of the Oslo Peace Process
Nadav Morag
This essay analyses the Oslo peace process. In doing so it concentrates on the ambiguous nature of the agreements at the heart of Oslo. While explaining why the Oslo process needed to be of an open-ended, noncommittal nature, the author argues that it is this ambiguity, nowhere better seen than in Oslo's avoidance of specific issues vital to a final settlement between parties, that is the most damaging aspect of the agreement. Issues such as demography and borders are analysed in the context of the Oslo process to highlight the extent to which the process has ignored, or is unsuited to dealing with, some of the most critical issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
