Insights
The emerging bi-national reality
The end of Zionism is in sight brought to us by the very hands that created the bi-national reality on the ground in the name of Zionism.
Interviews
Reared to public service
Gershon Baskin founded the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information is a bastion of coexistence initiatives that participates in Track II diplomacy (informal diplomacy, in which non-officials engage in dialogue, with the aim of conflict resolution or confidence-building) between Israelis and Palestinians and also focuses on peace education and environment and water issues.
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Who owns the water?
The key to resolving the water dispute is cooperation that will bring additional quantities of water to the area and better management and conservation of the water that we have.
Interviews
Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance
Gershon Baskin testified this week that security guards had accosted him to prevent him from photographing the construction site and threatened him with police arrest.
Interviews
From an Israeli Settlement, a Rabbi’s Unorthodox Plan for Peace
Gershon Baskin writes to President-Elect Obama citing Rabbi Froman who envisages a shared Jerusalem where the Old City, containing the main sites sacred to Muslims, Christians and Jews, is ex-territoria, a Jerusalem that houses the headquarters for international institutions.
Insights
Update on the Construction of the Wiesenthal Center Museum of “Tolerance” in Jerusalem
Let’s not give up; we can prevent this horrible project from moving forward!!!
Insights
A Letter to President-elect Obama
Gershon Baskin proposes that Two Rabbis, two Muslim Sheikhs and two Christian Bishops from the Holy Land deliver a message of peace from the Holy City to the new President and to the American people that would serve as a strong symbol for the renewed hope for peace in the world.
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Advisory Positions
The Future of Jerusalem 2000 Member of Prime Minister Barak’s expert team on Jerusalem working on preparing the Israeli positions regarding Jerusalem in the permanent status negotiations with the Palestinians. Security and Strategic Affairs 2005 The Leaders Project – Under the auspices of Secretary of Defense William Cohen The Politics of Water Resources 2005- present Special advisor and consultant to Waterbags developer Mr. Terry Spagg, seeking to transfer fresh water around the world. Dialogue across Read more
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Memberships
2005 – present Founding Member of the Steering Committee of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace NGO Forum, a network of more than 100 Israeli and Palestinian peace and dialogue NGO’s. 2005 – present Member of the Executive Committee of ALLMEP – the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a coalition of some 30 peace and dialogue organizations based in the US and in Israel/Palestine aimed at lobbying the US Government to increase its funding for Middle East Peace Read more
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Formal Education
1993 Ph.D. International Affairs, Greenwich University Dissertation: Sovereignty and Territory in the Future of Jerusalem (Ph.D. Mentors and academic supervisors: Prof. Alan Dowty, Notre Dame University and Prof. Edy Kaufman, University of Maryland and Hebrew University) 1991 M.A. International Affairs, Greenwich University (under the academic supervision of Prof. Alan Dowty, Notre Dame University) Dissertation: The Political and National Elements of a Possible Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians 1978 B.A. New York University, Politics Read more