The International Studies Public Forum (ISPF) presents

“Israel and Palestine: Is Peace Possible?”
with Galia Golan, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Thursday, February 3, 2011
3:30-5:00 p.m. 
Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 

Professor Golan is the head of the M.A. program and the M.A. specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. She is the author of nine books mainly on Soviet policy in the Middle East, as well as monographs and articles including work on the Arab-Israeli conflict.  Her most recent works include a book, Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals From Oslo to Disengagement, and a chapter on “Globalization and the Transformation of Conflict” in the volume by Louis Kriesberg and Bruce Dayton on Conflict Transformation.  Golan was the recipient of the 2007 Israeli Political Science Association Award for Contribution to the Field, the 1995 New Israel Fund Award for Women in Leadership, and the 1999 Gleistsman Activist Award for long-time peace activism in the leadership of Peace Now and a number of women’s peace organizations. She is a member of the Board of the Israel Foreign Policy Association; editorial board of the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, editorial board Palestine-Israel Journal and Communist and Post-Communist Studies.  Formerly she was on the International Advisory Board of the International Studies Review and the editorial board of the International Studies Quarterly. Golan has been a visiting scholar at the Center for International Relations, UCLA; Rand Corporation; Institute for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UC; Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley; Stanford-Berkeley Program on Soviet International-Behavior; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Department of Political Science, Cornell University; and Davis Distinguished Scholar, Wellesley College.

Israel Studies: An Anthology, authored by M. Bard and D. Nachmias

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