The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

In the early 1990s, the Committee on International Security Studies (CISS) initiated a project that convened Israeli-Palestinian working groups to examine the political, social and security requirements of achieving a durable peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Under the direction of Everett Mendelsohn (Harvard University) and Jeffrey Boutwell (CISS), these projects sought to identify areas of compromise between the two parties and the role to be played by neighboring countries such as Jordan and Egypt.

The first study group report was published in 1992 as Transition to Palestinian Self-Government: Practical Steps Toward Israeli-Palestinian Peace, by Ann Mosely Lesch. In 1995, CISS published Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations, by Jeffrey Boutwell and Everett Mendelsohn. In 1996 and 1997, CISS also convened a number of Israeli-Palestinian meetings on the future of Jerusalem.

Major funders of this project included the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and two European aid agencies, Novib (Netherlands) and EZE (Germany).

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