Nadim Rouhana, Fellow at NIAS and Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies at Tufts University will disentangle confounded paradigms around the encounter between Palestinians and Zionism.
This project aims to develop a new conceptual understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by disentangling the various conflict paradigms (e.g. settler-colonial, national, national-religious) that both parties have used to conceptualize their more than century-long conflict. It will examine: a) how Israeli, Palestinian, and international political paradigms have been applied in understanding and analyzing the conflict; b) how shifting and crisscrossing paradigms shaped Palestinian and Israeli political goals and strategies, contributed to a deadlock (both within each side and between the two sides), and impeded the advancement of a clear and bold rights-based project in which both Palestinians and Israelis are equally included; and c) the political implications of the paradigm shifts on the future of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.
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