Jan 29: Democracy and conflict resolution, the dilemmas of Israel’s peacemaking

The Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies in cooperation with the Department of Political Science invites you to a faculty research seminar on Democracy and conflict resolution: The dilemmas of Israel’s peacemaking.

Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Location: H-1220, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Information: call 514-848-2424, extension 8721

Oded Haklai

Associate professor, Queen’s University

A variety of internal influences on Israeli government practices relating to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking have frequently gone ignored in scholarly analyses. Yet, it is possible that features of democracy in particular, including electoral rules, social movements, and party systems inhibit conflict resolution, a possibility that resonates far outside this contested region.