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This issue of Progress in Peacebuilding highlights the Institute's work on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Latest from USIP on Israel
- October 7, 2011 | Event
On September 23, President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the U.N. Secretary-General for Palestine's admission as a full state member of the United Nations. What is needed to move the peace process forward? Is the diplomatic track in sync with the Palestinian state-building effort? What are the options for U.S. policy.
- September 9, 2011 | Publication
Taking on congressional critics of the United Nations, a senior State Department official told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 7 that the Obama administration’s multilateral diplomacy at the U.N. has bolstered U.S. security but that “backwards” calls to cut or further restrict U.S. funding for the world body, if enacted, would harm U.S. global influence.
- July 26, 2011 | Publication
Two seasoned NGOs engage nonstate combatants on international human rights law to get them to change behaviors, from eliminating use of landmines to protecting civilians. Their work can inform and complement other attempts at engagement.
- July 18, 2011 | Publication
USIP’s Scott Lasensky, co-author of "Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East" (with Daniel C. Kurtzer), reports from Israel on the prospects for reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and why all eyes are focused on the upcoming U.N. General Assembly.
Throughout a period of marked deterioration in Arab-Israeli relations over the past decade, USIP has continued to dedicate its team’s unique set of knowledge- and skill-based resources and relationships to a balanced and comprehensive approach to the conflict. It achieves this through policy-relevant analysis; innovative peace-oriented programming; cooperation and partnership with local organizations and initiatives; educational training; specialized publications; and the support of outside research and projects through a highly selective grants program. While work on the Arab-Israeli conflict falls primarily under the Institute’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, our approach is an integrated one, drawing Institute-wide on research, education, grantmaking, fellowships, and professional training programs.
As such we aim to:
- Advise the policy community on the role that the U.S. and the international community can have in influencing the Arab-Israeli conflict and on how to apply leverage to advance a peace process.
- Assess and address the dynamics of the conflict with emphasis on how the actions and attitudes of political groups, key civil society actors, and the Israeli and Palestinian publics affect efforts to initiate and sustain a peace process.
- Cultivate relationships within and between key sectors of Arab and Israeli society in a manner that creates an atmosphere supportive of improved relations and peaceful resolution of conflict.
- Explore the religious dimensions of the conflict, particularly religion’s role as a mobilizing force in the politics of the region, and empower key actors, such as religious leaders and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to use religion as an instrument of peacemaking.
Learn about USIP's Recent Projects and Initiatives on Israel
Learn about USIP's work in the Palestinian Territories
Read about USIP's Series on Internal Israeli and Palestinian Dynamics
(Photo at Right: The Bahai Gardens in Haifa, Israel. Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP.)
Publications & Tools
- Shimon Peres Visits Washington
April 2011 | On the Issues by Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen and Scott Lasensky - Peacebuilding through Health Among Israelis and Palestinians
January 2010 | Peace Brief by Leonard Rubenstein and Anjalee Kohli - Peacebuilding through Health Among Israelis and Palestinians
January 2010 | Peace Brief by Leonard Rubenstein and Anjalee Kohli - In Pursuit of Democracy and Security in the Greater Middle East
January 2010 | Working Paper by Daniel Brumberg - An Education Track for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
September 2009 | Peace Brief by Barbara Zasloff, Adina Shapiro, and A. Heather Coyne - A Renewable Energy Peace Park in the Golan as a Framework to an Israeli-Syrian Agreement
July 2009 | Peace Brief by Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat - Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
April 2008 | Book by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky
(Photo at Right: Posters in Jerusalem in support of freedom for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP.)
Multimedia
- Listen to USIP's Scott Lasensky on NPR discussing the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
- Watch the USIP event "Middle East Peace: Who leads and who succeeds?" and learn about The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008, " edited by Shibley Telhami.
- Listen to Len Rubenstein, director of USIP's Heath and Peacebuilding Initiative, on how heath can be a bridge to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Listen to the USIP event Engaging "Hamas: Risks and Opportunities"
- Listen to former U.S. ambassador to Israel Samuel W. Lewis moderate the USIP panel "New Hope for Peace: What America Must Do to End the Israel-Palestine Conflict"
(Photo at Right: Jerusalem's Old City. Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP.)
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