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Informationen zum Autor Shai Har-El is a historian, educator, writer, poet, rabbi, philanthropist, and businessman. He spent his formative childhood and young adulthood in Israel and served in the Israeli army, both in active duty (1964-66) and army service (1969-71). He participated in the Six Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973). In the last twenty-five years (1990-present), he has been active in building bridges of understanding and reconciliation across the Arab-Israeli and Jewish-Muslim conflict divides. He is the author of Struggle for Domination in the Middle East and Where Islam and Judaism Join Together. Klappentext The fruit of relentless peace activism and many years of philanthropic work in the Middle East Peace Network, In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace is Shai Har-El's unique, non-utopian, proactive approach to Middle East peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Recognizing the magnitude, complexity, and gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the evidenced limitations of traditional diplomacy, the author offers ideas how to enhance the Middle East peace process by adding a non-governmental peacebuilding component to the peace efforts. Such citizen diplomacy efforts, he argues, should be launched at a preliminary conflict transformation phase leading up to the final conflict resolution phase. The ultimate objective of this preliminary phase is to create—through alternative avenues, such as private diplomacy initiatives, transnational mechanisms, and backchannels—a win-win environment that is conducive to settling the conflict. This book details the concepts, measures, and techniques involved in the process with the understanding that the keystone for peace is the defiant power of the human spirit in both societies that are hungry for peace. Zusammenfassung The fruit of relentless peace activism and many years of philanthropic work in the Middle East Peace Network, In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace is Shai Har-El's unique, non-utopian, proactive approach to Middle East peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Recognizing the magnitude, complexity, and gravity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the evidenced limitations of traditional diplomacy, the author offers ideas how to enhance the Middle East peace process by adding a non-governmental peacebuilding component to the peace efforts. Such citizen diplomacy efforts, he argues, should be launched at a preliminary conflict transformation phase leading up to the final conflict resolution phase. The ultimate objective of this preliminary phase is to create—through alternative avenues, such as private diplomacy initiatives, transnational mechanisms, and backchannels—a win-win environment that is conducive to settling the conflict. This book details the concepts, measures, and techniques involved in the process with the understanding that the keystone for peace is the defiant power of the human spirit in both societies that are hungry for peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Creating a New Paradigm 1. A New Vision of Peace in the Middle East 2. Middle East Peace: Shifting the Mindset 3. The Prisoner Swap Teaches Us a Lesson 4. Where There Is a Vision, the People Flourish 5. Maybe the Conflict Will Go Away? 6. Traditional Diplomacy in the Middle East Has Run Its Course 7. Do Israelis and Palestinians Have the Right Leadership for Peace?Visioning Peace: The Power of Imagination 8. Failure to Communicate: The Middle East ConundrumDiagnosing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ...
