Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers (EPUB) von Galia Golan

1. This book is an unusual and provocative consideration of negotiations and peace processes—one of the most important issues facing the world today. It offers insights and take-aways for future negotiations in the Middle East and beyond. As an edited collection, the form of the book encourages dialogue between a wide range of fields and experiences.

2. Galia Golan is a distinguished senior scholar with more than a dozen books to her credit and an extensive history of involvement in peace organizations, particularly those involving women. She was voted 2015 "Woman Peacemaker" by the Joan Kroc Insititute for Peace and Justice and was awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association for her work in peace research.

3. Gilead Sher is former Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator to Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Ehud Barak (2000-2001). He was a senior negotiator at the 2000 Camp David summit and the 2001 Taba talks. He leads the Center for Applied Negotiations at the Tel Aviv Institute for National Security Studies. He has published in peace negotiations and has been guest lecturer at Harvard Law School (2016), Wharton School of Business (2001-2011), and Tel Aviv University (2007-2013).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theoretical and Historical Contexts / Galia Golan

1. Spoiling International Peace Negotiations from Within the Room / Gilead Sher and Deborah Shulman

2. The Leadership as a Spoiler / Roee Kibrik and Maya Kornberg

3. Israel's Domestic Legal Struggle Against the Settlements: Spoiler-advancing, Spoiler-hindering, or Spoiler-Exposing? / Shlomy Zachary

4. The American Jewish Diaspora as a Spoiler / Ofira Seliktar

5. Visual Spoilers? Peace and Conflict in Israeli Political Cartoons / Tamir Shaeffer, Ilan Danjoux, Shira Dabir-Gvirshman, and Shaul Shenhav

6. The Psychological Effects of Forced Evacuation: The Case of Jewish Settlers in the West Bank / Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Tamar Saguy, and Gilad Hirschberger

7. Coping with Spoilers: A Comparative Analysis / Galia Golan

Index

For as long as people have been working to bring peace to areas suffering long-standing, violent conflict, there have also been those working to spoil this peace. These "spoilers" work to disrupt the peace process, and often this disruption takes the form of violence on a catastrophic level. Galia Golan and Gilead Sher offer a broader perspective. They examine this phenomenon by analyzing groups who have spoiled or attempted to spoil peace efforts by political or other nonviolent means. By focusing in particular on the Israeli-Arab conflict, this collection of essays considers the impact of a democratic society operating within a broader context of violence. Contributors bring to light the surprising efforts of negotiators, members of the media, political leaders, and even the courts to disrupt the peace process, and they offer coping strategies for addressing this kind of disruption. Taking into account the multitude of factors that can lead to the breakdown of negotiations,Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers shows how spoilers have been a key factor in Israeli-Arab negotiations in the past and explores how they will likely shape negotiations in the future.

Ilan Danjoux is Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, Concordia University. He is author ofPolitical Cartoons and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Shira Dvir-Gvirsman is Senior Research Associate Lecturer of Communication at Tel Aviv University.

Gilad Hirschberger is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya.

Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler is a Senior Lecturer in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya.

Galia Golan is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The most recent of her many publications isIsraeli Peacemaking since 1967: Factors Behind the Breakthroughs and Failures. Golan is the recent recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the International Studies Association (ISA) for her work in peace research.

Roee Kibrik is an Adjunct Lecturer at the International Department, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the Director of Research of Mitvim: The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.

Maya Kornberg is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University.

Tamar Saguy is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya.

Ofira Seliktar is Professor Emerita of Political Science at Gratz College. Her latest book (with Farhad Rezaei) isIran, Israel, and the United States: The Politics of Counter-Proliferation Intelligence.

Tamir Sheafer is Professor of Political Science and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shaul Shenhav is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author ofAnalyzing Social Narratives.

Gilead Sher was Senior Negotiator at the 2000 Camp David summit and the 2001 Taba talks and served as Prime Minister Barak's Chief of Staff. Sher leads the Center for Applied Negotiations (CAN) at the Tel Aviv Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). His books includeThe Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001: Within ReachandThe Battle for Home.

Deborah Shulman is a PhD student in Social Psychology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and a member of the Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation lab at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya.

Shlomy Zachary is an Israeli lawyer, representing domestic and international human rights and peace organizations, and works in the areas of International Law and International Humanitarian Law.