Gilead Sher - Lessons from Negotiating Intractable Conflict

Gilead Sher is an Israeli attorney who specializes in international negotiations, both business and political. He served as Chief of Staff and Policy Coordinator to Israel's former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak. In that capacity, he acted as one of Israel's senior peace negotiators at the Camp David summit in 2000 and the Taba talks in 2001, as well as in extensive rounds of covert negotiations with the Palestinians.

Gilead has lectured on negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution at several institutions including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Tel Aviv University, and Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, and he is currently a fellow at Rice University’s, Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Gilead is a reserve colonel in the Israel Defense Forces and author of several articles and books including his latest, “Reflections on Conflict Resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond” published by World Scientific Publishing.

Some topics discussed include:

· The current status of the Israel-Palestine conflict

· Constructive Unilateralism: how to make peace without a negotiation partner

· Social media as a tool for peacebuilding

· How Iran went from a weak hand to striking a good deal at the 2015 nuclear negotiations

· Jimmy Carter’s drafting of a single negotiated text at the 1978 Camp David negotiations between Israel and Egypt

· The use of hardball tactics in negotiations

· Negotiation process design

· Impasses and why Bill Clinton “lost his cool” during the Camp David negotiations

And much more…

Links:

Reflections of Conflict Resolution: In the Middle East and Beyond, by Gilead Sher -    https://a.co/d/bNs65Wo