John Wallach
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: 1997-1998
Arab-Israeli relations; Conflict resolution; Track two diplomacy; Nongovernmental organizations; Middle East
ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE
Project Focus
Lessons for Reconciliation from Seeds of Peace
Background
John Wallach is founder and president of Seeds of Peace. From
1968 to 1994 he was foreign editor for the Hearst Newspapers, which
syndicated his articles to several hundred newspapers. In 1980 he was
named the BBC's first visiting foreign affairs correspondent. He has
been a regular contributor to NPR, BBC, and CBC. For his reporting,
Wallach received the Edwin Hood Award from the National Press Club,
the Edward Weintal Prize from Georgetown University, and the B'nai
Brith Humanitarian Award. He was the founding editor of WE/Mbl, the
first independent weekly newspaper in Russia, and founder of the
Chautauqua Conference on U.S.-Soviet Relations, for which he received
the 1991 Medal of Friendship from President Mikhail Gorbachev. He has
been named Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine, and
he received the UNESCO Peace Prize in 1996 and the Legion of Honor of
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from King Hussein in 1997. Wallach is
co-author, with Janet Wallach, of three books, Arafat: In The Eyes
of the Beholder, Still Small Voices, and The New
Palestinians. He holds an M.A. from the New School for Social
Research.
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