Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Occupied Palestinian Territory has been the subject of
extensive international peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts coordinated by Western …

The quality of the peace arrived at via liberal peacebuilding approaches has been poor. The
related statebuilding praxis has generally been unable to respond to its critics. What is at …

The Israeli settler movement plays a key role in Israeli politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict,
yet very few empirical studies of the movement exist. This is the first in-depth examination of …

A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two
states and continuities and discontinuities over time. It challenges the purely realist and …

This paper reviews the deep difficulties entailed in achieving a two-state solution to the
conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It shows that there are equally deep difficulties in …

Does individual-level exposure to political violence prompt conciliatory attitudes? Does the
answer vary by phase of conflict? The study uses longitudinal primary datasets to test the …

Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies examines what
happened to Northern Ireland and South Africa after their miraculous political settlements in …

This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its
impact on groups in conflict. When the international community intervenes in a violent …

An attentive observer strolling the streets of Northern Irish cities could not fail to notice that
the Middle East conflict has spread its tentacles to this westerly part of Europe. It is …

The goal of 'learning'from peace processes is widely expressed in conflict resolution
scholarship and practice but inadequately understood. This article investigates what kinds of …