ABSTRACT
The editors offer their historians’ perspectives on Professor Kelman’s unique contribution as scholar-practitioner dedicated to the search for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians through his use of problem-solving workshops. The selected chapters, written over four decades, are not only insightful academic chapters but also prescient, and serve as snapshots-in-time of the ebb and flow of conflict and peace efforts as well as guideposts for future would-be negotiators and facilitators. The editors conclude with comments about realism and idealism in the quest for mutual recognition between the two rival national communities.
