Archive for April, 2008

Conference on Israeli-Palestinian peace process - a summary

Written by conference chair, Dr. Moises Salinas

With the support of Meretz USA, the Jewish Academic Network for Israeli Palestinian Peace sponsored the First International Academic Conference on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: Pathways to Peace. The Conference took place on March 28-29 at CentralConnecticut State University and was co-sponsored by the American Task Force on Palestine and the Geneva Initiative North America. It featured top-level keynote speakers Herbert Kelman, Naomi Chazan, Stephen P. Cohen, Sami Adwan, Daniel Levy, Gaith al Omari, and Saliba Sarsar, as well as over 36 other presenters.

The conference concluded with a summary of some of the recurring ideas, and out-of-the-box suggestions for follow up: (more…)

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