Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli-Arab Negotiations Golan Galia
Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli-Arab Negotiations Golan Galia For as long as people have been working to bring peace to areas suffering long-standing, violent conflict, there have also…
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Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli-Arab Negotiations Golan Galia
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. Galia Golan and Gilead Sher offer a broader perspective. These "spoilers" work to disrupt the peace process, and often this disruption takes the form of violence on a catastrophic level.
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. They examine this phenomenon by analyzing groups who have spoiled or attempted to spoil peace efforts by political or other nonviolent means. 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