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Download the most recent version of "Progress in Peacebuiling: Israel, the Palestinian Territories and the Arab-Israeli Conflict," a comprehensive overview of the Institute's work on the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
USIP's Approach: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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.
Goals:
- 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.