Transforming the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Spanning the years 1978-2017, the essays gathered here attest to Professor Kelman’s broad empathy for Palestinians and Israelis, and his pursuit of a resolution of their conflict based on principles that satisfy the essential psychological needs and minimum political interests of both.

Herbert C. Kelman is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at Harvard University, USA. His major publications include International Behavior (editor; 1965), A Time to Speak (1968), and Crimes of Obedience (with V. Lee Hamilton; 1989). He is Honorary President of the Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation, based in Austria.

Philip Mattar is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Palestinians and of the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. He is author of The Mufti of Jerusalem. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center, and a Senior Fellow at the US Institute for Peace. He was a founder of the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) and director of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, D.C.

Neil Caplan taught at Vanier College and at McGill, Concordia and Queens Universities in Canada until his retirement in 2008. His publications include Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, Futile Diplomacy, 1913-1956 (4 vols.?), The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories, and (with Laura Eisenberg) Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities.