Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind (born 1953) is a practising psychotherapist and group analyst, who works in conflict resolution in the Middle East. Much of her special contribution is around the role of human motivation and behaviour in resolving conflict.

She directs the Middle East Human Security Programme for the Oxford Research Group^[1] , an NGO which works to promote a more sustainable approach to security and is one of the leading UK advocates of non-military resolution of global conflict. It combines in-depth political and technical expertise with many years' experience in promoting serious analysis and dialogue.

A political entrepreneur, Rifkind has, over the last decade, created a number of quiet behind-the-scenes round-table discussions, often between groups who are not currently in dialogue in the Middle East. Her special areas of interest are the Palestine-Israel conflict and the role and influence of Iran as a regional player. She concentrates on the concept of inclusive dialogue and the need to engage groups who have historically sat outside the political process within the frame of conflict resolution.

A graduate of the University of Manchester and postgraduate the University of Edinburgh, Rifkind lives in London and makes regular contributions to the media, e.g. for the The Guardian^[2][3] , The Independent^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} and BBC Radio 4.^[8] She has appeared on various news and political analysis programmes, has given many public lectures and engaged in debates at venues ranging from the Oxford Union ( “Time to talk to Hamas?”) and the House of Commons^[9] to Chatham House and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs^[10] (Watch Rifkind debate on Iran).

She is author, with Scilla Elworthy, of Making Terrorism History (Random House, 2005).

Contents 1 Notes 2 Publications 3 External links 4 References

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Publications

• Language of war, language of peace and its application to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Psychotherapy and Politics International, June 2004, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp115–122 [1]

• Co-author, Making Terrorism History, Random House, London, 2005 [2].

• ‘Separating aspirations from realities’, The Jerusalem Post, 1 May 2006 [3]

• ‘No matter what Israel and Hamas do to each other, the solution won't be rational’, The Independent, July 16, 2006 [4]

• ‘What Lies Beneath the Rhetoric’, Ha’aretz, 12 December 2006 [5]

• ‘Want to ease tensions with Iran? Just try talking’, The Independent, February 13, 2007 [6]

• ‘From Crisis to Opportunity’, The Jerusalem Post, February 2007 [7]

• ‘A Standing Conference Table: A Process for Sustainable Peace in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict’, Oxford Research Group, July 2007 [8]

• ‘This dialogue of the deaf is making war more likely’, The Independent, October 28, 2007 [9]

• 'Western diplomacy and psychology', Therapy Today, November 2007 [10]

• 'The Arab Peace Initiative: Why Now?, Oxford Research Group, November 2008. A report following the Oxford Research Group roundtable on ‘The Arab Peace Initiative as a possible exit from the current impasse – the role of the international community’ at Charney Manor in Oxfordshire on October 15–17, 2008. [11]

• ‘The man to sell peace to the Middle East’, The Independent, January 24, 2009 [12]

• 'A route to resolution for Syria and Israel', The Guardian, February 26, 2010 [13]

• ‘Pariahs to Pioneers' Oxford Research Group, May 2010 [14]

• ‘Solving the West Bank Settler Problem’, Guardian, September 2010 [15]

External links

Oxford Research Group [16]

Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma [17]

Institute for Integrative and Transformative Peacebuilding [18]

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) [19]

References

‘Misunderstanding Ulster’, David Trimble, 24 November 2007 [20]

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