Conference Program

Sunday, 25.5

14:00-14:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks

Mordechai Tamarkin, Head, The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research

Zvi Shtauber, Director, The Institute for National Security Studies

Dany Leviatan, Rector, Tel Aviv University

14:30-16:00 Session I

Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives

Chairperson - David Vital (Tel Aviv University)

Janice Gross Stein (University of Toronto)

From a Bipolar World to a Unipolar One: International Efforts to Resolve Local Conflicts

Rajan Menon (Lehigh University)

'The Responsibility to Protect': An Idea Worth Considering for Managing Local Conflict?

Yossi Beilin (Knesset Member)

The Interface between Academia and Practice in the Context of Conflict Resolution

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Session II

The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Chairperson – Gabriel Gorodetsky (Tel Aviv University)

Galia Golan (The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya)

The Soviet Union and the Efforts to Resolve the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Avraham Ben-Zvi (The University of Haifa)

Between Comprehensiveness and Step-by-Step: Rogers, Kissinger, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Kenneth W. Stein (Emory University)

The Carter Administration: From a Comprehensive Peace to a Separate One

Monday, 26.5

09:30-11:00 Session III

From the Cold War to a New World Order: The Middle East, 1980-2007

Chairperson – Arnon Gutfeld (Tel Aviv University)

Robert David (KC) Johnson (Brooklyn College)

The Reagan-Bush Administrations and the Middle East

Shibley Telhami (University of Maryland)

The Clinton Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Robert Lieber (Georgetown University)

The George W. Bush Administration and the Middle East

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:30 Session IV

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Web of Regional and International Politics:

Local Perspectives

Chairperson – Shimon Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

Samir Hulileh (Portland Trust)

In Search for Peace and Justice: A Palestinian Perspective Towards the Role of the International Community

Yehuda Ben Meir (The Institute for National Security Studies)

Israeli Perspective

Shlomo Brom (The Institute for National Security Studies)

Managing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Local Actors' Response to International Policing

Yossi Kostiner (Tel Aviv University)

Mediation by Local Powers: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:30 Session V

Europe and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in the Aftermath of the Cold War

Chairperson – Uzi Eilam (The Institute for National Security Studies)

Ron Pundak (Peres Center for Peace)

Norway and the Oslo Agreement

Jean-Pierre Filiu (Sciences Po, Paris)

Reflections on French Experiences in the Middle East

Georg Simonis (Fern Universität, Hagen)

The EU and its Efforts to Resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-19:00 Session VI

Diplomatic Round-Table

Chairperson - Zvi Shtauber (former Israeli Ambassador in London)

Itamar Rabinovich (former Israeli Ambassador in Washington)

Saeb Erakat (chief Palestinian negotiator)

Daniel C. Kurtzer (former US Ambassador in Cairo and Tel Aviv)

Tuesday, 27.5

09:30-11:00 Session VII

Conflict-Resolution Efforts in Post-Cold War Europe

Chairperson - Rafi Vago (Tel Aviv University)

James Gow (King's College, London)

International Engagement and the Yugoslav War of Dissolution

Dimitri Trenin (Carnegie Foundation, Moscow)

Conflicts in Russia's Neighbourhood: From Situation-Freezing to Dispute-Resolution

Adrian Guelke (Queen's University of Belfast)

External Mediation and Internal Ownership – The Belfast and St. Andrews Agreements Compared

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:30 Session VIII

Peace-Keeping Operations

Chairperson – Kobi Michael (The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies)

Efrat Elron (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

The Evolution of Peace Operations: From the Cold War to the Global Era

Stefan Wolff (University of Nottingham)

European Union Crisis Management in the Western Balkans: Policy Objectives, Capabilities and Effectiveness

Chen Kertcher (Tel Aviv University)

Same Agenda, Different Results: the UN peacekeeping in Cambodia and Somalia

Udi Dekel (Former C.O. Liaison Unit & Head of Strategic Division)

The Effectiveness of Peace-Keeping Forces: The Israeli Experience

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:30 Session IX

Military Intervention and Democratization: Global Order and the Radical Islamist Challenge

Chairperson - Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University)

Marvin G. Weinbaum (Middle East Institute, Washington. D.C.)

Lost Faith, Forfeited Trust: Afghan Responses to Post-9/11 International Intervention

in State-Building and Insurgency

Michael Eisenstadt (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Military Intervention, Political Violence and Transitional Democratic Politics in Iraq

Eyal Zisser (The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University)

Military Intervention and Democratization: Global Order and the Radical Islamic Challenge in Lebanon

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-18:30 Concluding Session

Chairperson - Eyal Zisser, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University

Daniel C. Kurtzer (Princeton University)

Rajan Menon (Lehigh University)