What the U.S. Elections Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Dr. Khalil Shikaki and Dr. Shai Feldman

Date
Nov 10, 2016, 7:00 pm8:30 pm
Location
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall

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The Conversations About Peace series continues for 2016-2017 with a discussion led by Professor Daniel C. Kurtzer, Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Professor Amaney Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton University. These lectures are cosponsored by the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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Professor Shai Feldman is the Judith and Sidney Swartz Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute in London. In 1997-2005, he was Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and in 2001-2003; he served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

Professor Feldman is the author of numerous publications.  These include six books: Israeli Nuclear Deterrence: A Strategy for the 1980s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982); The Future of U.S.-Israel Strategic Cooperation (Washington D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1996); Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997);Bridging the Gap:  A Future Security Architecture for the Middle East(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997 – with Abdullah Toukan (Jordan)); and, Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003 – with Hussein Agha, Ahmad Khalidi, and Zeev Schiff).  His latest book (with Abdel Monem Said Aly and Khalil Shikaki), Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East, was published in December 2013 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr. Khalil Shikaki is professor of political science and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research(Ramallah). He is also a senior fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. He finished his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1985, and taught at several Palestinian and American universities including al Najah National University and Birzeit University, the University of Michigan in Anna Arbor, the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the University of South Florida. He spent the summer of 2002 as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Since 1993, Dr. Shikaki
has conducted hundreds of polls among Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and since 2000, working jointly with Israeli colleagues, he has conducted dozens of joint polls among Palestinians and Israelis. His research has focused on Palestinian state building, public opinion, transition to democracy, and the impact of domestic Palestinian politics on the peace process.

Dr Shikaki is the co-author of Arabs and Israelis: Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) with Abdel Monem Said Aly and Shai Feldman. Other recent books include Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Public Imperative During the Second Intifada, with Yaacov Shamir, Indiana University Press, 2010. His recent articles include “The End of the “Abbas Decade”: The Crumbling of the post-Intifada Status-Quo,” Middle East Brief, No. 97, Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University, January 2016; “Can Hamas Moderate? Insights from Palestinian Politics during 2005-2011,” Middle East Brief 88, January 2015; “Stabilizing Gaza-Israel Relations: What Would It Take?” Middle East Brief 83, August 2014, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, with Shai Feldman; The Likelihood, Consequences, and Policy Implications of PA Collapse or Dissolution,” PSR, February 2014; “Managing Refugee Expectations,” in Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai (eds.) The Palestinian Refugee Problem: the Search for a Resolution (London: Pluto Press, 2014); “The Future of Israel-Palestine: a One-State Reality in the Making,”NOREF Report, May 2012; “Coping with the Arab Spring; Palestinian Domestic and Regional Ramifications, ” Middle East Brief, no. 58, Crown Center for Middle East Policy, Brandeis University,
December 2011. Since 2008, he has been the co-author of the annual report of the Arab Democracy Index and the annual Arab Security Sector Index.