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From a space of conflict to a space of peace: The role of urban planners in advancing the peace process

This review paper is based on the concept of creating space to understand the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In fact, the paper argues, the conflict produces and is produced by a process

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The Tower of David Museum: Venue for Co-Existence

The article inquires how a cultural institute in a contested city can become an allied sphere, a source for joint creation, and even a venue for peacebuilding.

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Does the Road to Peace Pass Through Prisons? The role of former and current inmates in advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace

The article points to measures that can be promoted in order to realize the potentially positive role of inmates in advancing peace.

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Women’s Peace Groups in Formal Peace Processes: Benefits of Participation, Price of Exclusion

This paper explores how women's peace organizations contribute to peacemaking efforts in Israel-Palestine. It is part of a joint project by Mitvim and the Davis Institute.

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MEPPA’s Progress and Promise, One Year In

This paper assesses the current state and potential of the Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act (“MEPPA”), passed by Congress just after the 2020 presidential election, for

Policy Papers and Reports

The Significance of Convening the European Union – Israel Association Council

On July 18, 2022, the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union (EU) decided to move ahead with convening the EU-Israel Association Council (AC) after a decade-long hiatus. This paper

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Democratic Backsliding and Securitization: Challenges for Israel, the EU, and Israel-Europe Relations

This report analyses the illiberal trends and democratic backsliding that can be seen in both Europe and Israel, and is a product of a two year project between Mitvim, PAX for Peace Netherlands,

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Environmental Organizations as Potential Players in the Peace Process

This article discusses the capacity of non-governmental organizations to use environmental issues as a platform for promoting peace in the region, especially between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Energy as a Tool for Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding

Energy relations between Israel and the Palestinians reflects the existing relationship between the parties, but at the same time hold high potential for promoting cooperation and peace.

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‘Peace through Health’ in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Ground for dialogue or guise for continued occupation?

Based on interviews with representatives of an Israeli human rights organization that provides health services in the Occupied Territories, this article examines the implementation of the "peace

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Palestinian Expectations from The Biden Administration

The United States’ (US) foreign policy trend of intervention in the Middle East has long been accepted as a truism in international relations and politics. For decades, the US has demonstrated a

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Saudi Arabia’s Engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

During the last few decades Saudi Arabia had exercised a role of a regional coordinator between various Middle Eastern states and between them and the USA. Twice in the past it had put on the

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Improving access to the EU’s market for services

Regulatory heterogeneity between Israel and its key trading partners restricts the potential for bilateral trade. Approximation of the European Union’s regulatory standards would contribute to

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The First Months of Israel-UAE Peace:
Israel’s Perspective on the Abraham Accords

Introduction In the few months that have passed since the signing of the historical Abraham Accords, Israel and the UAE have opened embassies and exchanged ambassadors, launched direct flights

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Israel’s Strategic Interests in the Eastern Mediterranean

**The article was published by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) as an FES Southern Perspective publication The Eastern Mediterranean emerged in the last decade as a new focus of Israeli strategic

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Supercharged: The EuroAsia Interconnector and
Israel’s Pursuit of Energy Interdependence

Contemporary analysis of Eastern Mediterranean geopolitics tends to focus on the discovery of offshore hydrocarbons, and how a desire to maximize commercial profits has spurred a realignment of

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Israel’s Relations with Arab Countries:
The Unfulfilled Potential

An Electronic Book edited by Dr. Roee Kibrik, Dr. Nimrod Goren, Merav Kahana-Dagan. Israel’s Relations with Arab Countries: The Unfulfilled Potential examines relations between Israel and seven

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Opportunities and Challenges for Israel-UAE
Economic Cooperation

Israeli-Emirati economic ties have been developing continuously since the 1990s, setting the stage for the recent Abraham Accords and the partnerships that have begun to flourish as a result.

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Civilian cooperation between Israel and Arab states: How does it work?

A research by Dr. Roee Kibrik and Einat Levi

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Regional Cooperation: Government Practices

A research by Ksenia Svetlova and Mor Yahalom

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The Palestinian Issue as Ground and Ceiling for Arab-Israeli Cooperation

A new research by Thair Abu Ras

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The Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum: Cooperation in the Shadow of Competition

Gabriel Mitchell, Research, September 2020-

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The Middle East Rediscovers the Jews

The much-acclaimed television series “Umm Haroun” produced for Ramadan month viewing, describes the life of Kuwait’s Jewish community in the 1940s. It has generated stormy discussion throughout

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Israel-Morocco Cooperation in 2019: Warming from the Bottom Up

A 2018 paper entitled “Israel and Morocco: Cooperation Rooted in Heritage”, written within the framework of the Mitvim Institute’s project on the unfulfilled potential of Israel’s relations with

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Israel-UAE Cooperation in 2019: Warming Relations, Also in Civilian Affairs

The relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel are primarily characterized by mutual interest and cautious rapprochement steps. The rapprochement can be attributed to the

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Israel-Iraq Cooperation in 2019: Security Challenges and Civilian Warming

The final months of 2019 were marked by widespread, prolonged protests throughout Iraq, which began in October. Baghdad was the focal point of the demonstrations, which were directed at the

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Israel and Qatar: Relations Nurtured by the Palestinian Issue

This article focuses on relations between Israel and Qatar, analyzing them in historical context, in the context of Qatari foreign policy and in terms of their potential and the limitations

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Israel, Energy, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Shaping a New Regional Foreign Policy

This paper explores the nexus between Israel’s energy policy and foreign policy interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. While regional energy cooperation has the potential to be one of the most

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International Responses to Annexation: Lessons for Israel from Other Conflicts

Over the last decade, Israel has accelerated a long-term process of annexation in the West Bank through legal, political, physical and rhetorical steps that are both explicit, and increasingly

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Divided and Divisive: Europeans, Israel and Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking

Over the last 40 years, since the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty (that alluded to but did not solve the Palestinian question) and the European Community’s 1980 Venice Declaration, Europe has been

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Israel and the United Arab Emirates: Opportunities on Hold

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is well known for its economic power and moderate Islam, and for its increasing involvement in regional developments throughout the Middle East, including the

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Israel and Morocco: Cooperation Rooted in Heritage

About one million Moroccan Jews currently live in Israel and tens of thousands of Israelis visit Morocco every year for tourism purposes, business or family visits. This reality leads Israel and

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The Boiling Water of the Red Sea: Power Struggles and Israel’s Interests

The Red Sea basin includes 12 states with a combined population of around 300 million. On the eastern shore lie Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Israel share the Gulf of

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Civil Society in Action – Promoting Sub-Regional Cooperation Between CSOS as a Way Forward?

Eastern Mediterranean states are facing numerous domestic challenges to their democratic institutions. The region is highly heterogeneous in terms of these challenges. But there are also common

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Israel and Saudi Arabia: On the Way to Normalization?

The tectonic changes in the Middle East since 2011 have created the foundation for a significant rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Alongside their strategic security partnership,

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Netanyahu’s Attempt to Delink Israel-Arab Relations from the Palestinian Issue

Research by Dr. Yuval Benziman, April 2018

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Netanyahu’s Attempt to Delink Israel-Arab Relations from the Palestinian Issue

The claim that emerged in 2000 that Israel has “no Palestinian partner” to negotiate with on the final status agreement has become a fixture in the Israeli public discourse ever since.

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The Involvement of Palestinian Citizens of Israel in the Israeli Peace Camp

The Israeli peace camp includes thousands of people and hundreds of groups, movements and organizations working to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bring peace and reconciliation

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The Involvement of the Arab Palestinian Citizens of Israel in Foreign Affairs

The Palestinian citizens of Israel have the potential to influence and shape Israel’s foreign affairs, especially in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and to Israel’s ties with

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Lessons for Israel and Palestine from Conflict Comparisons

In 2016, the Mitvim Institute embarked on a process of comparing the Israeli- Palestinian conflict to other protracted ethno-nationalist or religious territorial conflicts. The project was

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Lessons from Serbia and Kosovo for Israel and Palestine: All Process, No Peace?

How did one of the world’s toughest conflicts reach a diplomatic breakthrough after 14 years of political stalemate? Why did the process then stagnate? In 1999, NATO led the largest international

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Lessons from Nagorno-Karabakh for Israel and Palestine: Does Unresolved Conflict Destroy Democracy?

Azerbaijan and Armenia exited the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, putatively for a future of democracy. Twenty years later, both are on the opposite path. Over two decades of unresolved, highly

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Lessons from Cyprus for Israel-Palestine: Can Negotiations Still Work?

Like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Cyprus conflict has been a protracted, unresolved conflict for roughly five decades. The two conflicts share ethno-nationalist and territorial

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Can Israel and Palestine learn from Colombia?

It is rare to hear any good news about conflicts de-escalating. This week, the world rallied around the implementation of a ceasefire between the notorious and shadowy FARC (Revolutionary Armed

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The Revolt of the Young Palestinian Generation

The latest cycle of violence clearly shows the despair young Palestinians feel. This is a generation that will not follow its political leadership blindly. It loathes the existing political

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The curse of stagnation and the need for conflict comparison

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mired in political paralysis that is costing lives daily. Local actors at the policy level are badly in need of fresh ideas, but few are forthcoming. In this

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US Vetoes on UN Security Council Resolutions Dealing with the Israeli-Arab Conflict

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