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Informationen zum Autor Sapir Handelman is a visiting professor at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University! an associate at Harvard University and the Lentz Fellow in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research. His research focuses on the study of destructive social conflicts and their resolution! political theory! and applied ethics. He also leads the "Minds of Peace Experiment" at various Centers for Peace Studies around the U.S. and the Middle East! a project which offers simulations of a potential Palestinian-Israeli public-assembly! a public negotiating congress! and is the recipient of the 2010 Peter Becker Award for Peace and Conflict Studies. Klappentext Provides an analysis and theoretical approaches to peacemaking and more particularly to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This book deals with the art of peacekeeping and the issue of intractable conflict! and looks into specific models for peacekeeping and applying them to the situation in Israel/Palestine. Zusammenfassung Presenting and evaluating interactive models of peacemaking and the phenomenon of intractable conflict, the book takes an in-depth look into specific models for peacemaking and applies them to the situation in Israel/Palestine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: General Background 1. Intractable Conflict as a Complex Phenomenon 2. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 3. Between Conflict-Resolution and Conflict-Management Part 2: Interactive Models of Peacemaking 4. The Strong-Leader Model 5. The Social-Reformer Model 6. The Political-Elite Model 7. The Public-Assembly Model. Summary and Conclusion