The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks

The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...

the ineffective role of the united states in the syrian-israeli peace process during the 1990s

the end of cold war created a unique opportunity for both the arabs and israelis to end their animosity and for the united states to play an important role to bring them to peace negotiations. therefore, during the 1990s, the u.s. facilitated several rounds of talks between syria and israel, but the negotiations complicated gradually. the talks were stalled over the fact that israel did not wan...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

Beyond the Time and Space of Peace Talks: Re-appropriating the Peace Process in Sri Lanka

A peace process almost always acts as the catalyst to transition from conflict. In reality, the peace process is usually dominated by peace negotiations between the main contending parties who are able to direct the content and progress of the movement towards peace. However, as conflicts rarely reduce into bilateral disputes, the elite nature of peace talks can exclude or ignore broader, cross...

Israeli charity sows "seeds of peace".