The Missing Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in the Middle East.

Why is there no peace between Israel and the Palestinians? What are the conditions for a solution that can be tolerated by both? What are the conflict's fundamental causes? We investigate these questions via interrelated subprojects, focusing on the inter national, regional and national levels. national, Topics include: national, - the repeated mediation attempts by the UN and the USA since 1948, and why they failed - institutional forms of Great Power interventions since the Ottoman Empire, and the patter ns of intervention and war ire, and the - shi'a religious networks, and their political-organizational links with Hamas - the evolving and varied ideologies of Sunni groups and their Palestinian h Hamas counterparts and the possibility compromise in jihad h Hamas - the (lack of) institutional development in the Palestinian areas, suicide bombings and the Jewish settler movement as obstacles to peace. ombings and Trained in the history, political science, religion and law, SIP resea rchers will compare and integrate conflict-resolution theories, analytic methods and empirical findings. PRIO's solid area expertise will be compledted with participatation by other Norwegian and international scholars. Outputs: 10-12 articles, a conflic t atlas on the region, 3 book manuscripts, 3 doctoral theses and up to 4 new doctoral projects. e region, This project links to Harek Sande's doctoral application. e region,