Publications

Perhaps the greatest obstacle to the achievement of peace between the Israelis and Palestinians is the widespread conviction within both societies that the other side’s true goals and aspirations, if realized, would create an unbearable future for their own side. Insofar as traditional peace processes focus on negotiating and implementing “efficient” agreements without addressing a standard “enemy relationship” and the distrust and fear it encompasses, those processes are unlikely to succeed. The Four- uestion Framework developed by the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN) offers a new and different design for a peace process that would address the relational barriers that prevent progress toward peace.