Insights
YES PM: Years of Experience in Strategies for Peace Making
Gershon Baskin asks why did the P2P projects cease to work when they were needed the most? Why did the P2P projects fail to produce the desired goals? How could P2P projects have greater impact?
Books
The New Walls and Fences: Consequences for Israel and Palestine
Gershon Baskin and Sharon Rosenberg claim that the Israeli decision-makers and the Israeli public have given very little attention to the effects of constructing the wall on the Palestinian economy.
Insights
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) salutes Gerson Baskin
Abu Mazen recognizes that Gershon Baskin’s work has always stood as an example of the kind of relationship that both the Palestinian and the Israeli people deserve: commitment to dialogue as the means for advancing joint interests and for resolving disputes.
Insights
The Oslo Peace Process – Lessons Learned
Gershon explains the importance of investing a lot more energy and thought into how to integrate the bottom-up peace making process within their overall strategies.
Insights
Possible Signs of Sanity in Israel? We can only hope… Mitzna’s Victory Must Become Our Shared Victory
Gershon Baskin feels that Mitzna’s victory can be a turning point and it is now it is up to us to make the real difference.
Insights
Proposals for Walls and Fences, and their Consequences: An overview of various Israeli proposals for unilateral separation.
After many more casualties on both sides, the sides will come back to the only real viable solution to the conflict – real political separation together with economic cooperation and integration.
Insights
Where are we now and where to from here?
Israelis and Palestinians who know that eventually we will reach peace…must not give in to the emotional drive to cut links and contacts. Quite the opposite, we must remain committed to dialogue aimed at planning our future together through a vision of cooperation, mutual respect and dignity.
Interviews
Can they stem the tide?
Gershon Baskin says that we are in a period of very intensive activity trying to re-launch contacts between the Israelis and Palestinians with three Israeli-Palestinian working groups on water, economy and Jerusalem that are meeting almost weekly.
Insights
Creating Peace: The Bottom-up Approach
Gershon Baskin shares his ideas about what can be done from “bottom-up” to create peace