Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine: Dialogues for a Just Peace

This book offers an analysis of the major sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests principles and processes for building a peacemaking platform.

The primary aim of this book is to analyze the crucial roles and capacities of mid-level, nongovernmental peacemakers as they provide unique approaches to transforming the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It also aims to analyze and experience dialogue as the primary mode of peacemaking communication. The two-part format of this book creates a structural dialogue. Part One provides an academic introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, why it matters, the role of identities, and strategies for transforming the conflict based on international law and human rights. Part Two is presented in a dialogue format, providing further conflict analysis through storytelling and dialogues with peacemakers.

This book will be of great interest to anyone engaged with peace and conflict transformation, ethnography, social justice, communication studies, and Middle Eastern studies, human rights and international law.

Robert D. Hostetter is a Professor of Communication Arts, peace activist, playwright, and co-founder and director of the Conflict Transformation Program at North Park University in Chicago. For more than 35 years he has worked at the intersection of the arts and peacemaking. He has also served as chair of the Peace and Conflict Communication Division of the National Communication Association.