Gilead Sher - Publications and Lectures

Books

• English edition: "Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers: Israeli Arab Negotiations", August 2019, Edited by Galia Golan and Gilead Sher. Publishing: Indiana University Press.
• English edition: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999-2001 - Within Reach, December 2005 with Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
• Sher, G. “Negotiating Jerusalem”. In Jerusalem – Idea and Reality. Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad (editors). Routledge: New York, 2008.
• Just Beyond Reach, The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations 1999-2001: A Testimony, Yedioth Aharonot-Sifrei Hemed, 2001.[Hebrew edition: 2001; Arabic edition: 2002]

Articles, Papers and Research 

• Israel, Egypt, the Palestinians, and The Legacy of the Camp David Accords, 40 Years Later, War on the Rocks, September, 2018
• Just don’t do it: The ramifications of a termination of the Oslo Accords, Fathom Journal, May, 2018
• Who Will Make the Decision? INSS, May 3 ,2018
• Opinion - Shrinking the Occupation Won't Do. Israel Needs to Separate From the Palestinians, Haaretz, March 1 ,2018
• Why a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians is closer than you think, The Washington Post‏, Feburary 28, 2017
• Diplomacy or Driving a Hard Bargain? Lessons from the Negotiation that Led to the Iran Nuclear Deal, INSS, December 2017
• After his Jerusalem decision Trump needs to promote peace talks, December 13 ,2017
• Three Problems With Trump's 'Ultimate' Middle East Peace Plan, Bloomberg View, November 26 ,2017
• Fatah-Hamas reconciliation: Both a challenge and an opportunity, Ynet - Opinion, October 19 ,2017
• Analysis: Defining Israel's Future Borders, The Jerusalem Post, October 6 ,2017
• Hamas: Toward Palestinian Reconciliation, or Abdication of Governmental Responsibility? INSS, September 2017
• The Disengagement, Twelve Years On: Implications, Lessons, and an Eye toward the Future, INSS, August 2017
• Opinion: The inevitable next conflagration, The Times of Israel, August 2 ,2017 
• The Hamas Document of Principles: Can a Leopard Change Its Spots? INSS, July 2017
• Art of the Israeli-Palestinian deal, The Times of Israel, May 22 ,2017
• How peace can come to Israel. Beware the quick fix, Newsweek, May 22 ,2017
• Same old Hamas, Ynet news, April 14 ,2017
• 1967 | Don't belive the hype: the settlers have not made the two-state solution unachievable, Fathom, March 27, 2017
• Peace in israel will come only through a two-state solution, Newsweek, March 21, 2017
• Trump-Netanyahu: How to avoid previous setbacks, Times of Israel, Febuary14, 2017
• For Israel's sake, stop settlements: Column, Usa today, Febuary 14, 2017
• More of the Same? Fatah’s Seventh General Congress and the Reelection of Abbas, INSS, December 18, 2016
• Obama's last chance to bring lasting peace to Israel, Newsweek Opinion, December 9 ,2016
• Lieberman’s Words Must Become Deeds, Haaretz, December 7, 2016
• National security for Israel in an unstable middle east - prospects for a two-state reality, Insct, September 29, 2016
• The Shimon Peres I Knew Was Unparalleled in His Quest for Peace, Forward, September 27, 2016
• Breaking the perceptual circle, Ynet Opinion, September 13, 2016
• To heal divisions among the Jewish people, divide the land, JTA, August 11, 2016
• Recognizing that Israel is not an occupying power in Gaza is good for everyone, War on the rocks, July 8, 2016
• Prospects for a Gaza Seaport, INSS Insight No.804, March 13, 2016
• The Internal Arena and National Security, INSS, Strategic Survey for Israel 2015-2016
• Breaking the Two-State Paradigm? INSS, Strategic Survey for Israel 2015-2016
• A modest approach to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Washington Post, December 17, 2015
• Israel and Palestine: It’s Time for John Kerry to Act, Newsweek, November 29, 2015
• The speech Bibi should have made at the U.N, Jewish Journal Opinion, Oct. 16, 2015
• Israelis will have security when Palestinians have hope, YNET Opinion, September 10, 2015
• Act independently, The jerusalem post, May 20, 2015 
• US, international community should take lead on two-state solution, ISRAEL PULSE, May 6, 2015
• Israel Faces Battles on Many Fronts, but Prospects for Peace Remain, ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS, February 25, 2015
• The Impact of Operation Protective Edge on Political and Social Trends in Israel, The Institute for National Security Studies, February 2015
• An Integrated Political Strategy: Regional, Bilateral, and Independent, The Institute for National Security Studies, February 2015 
• Wanted: An Israeli anti-'lawfare' strategy. The jerusalem Report, February 2015
• A New Opportunity to Confront the Delegitimization of Israel. INSS, December 2014
• Reviving a Regional Approach. INSS, December 2014
• The New-Old Palestinian Initiative to Establish a State. INSS, September 2014
• Image vs. Reality: The Delegitimization of Israel in the Wake of Operation Protective Edge. INSS, August 2014
• The partition plan. The Jerusalem Report, June 2014
• Israeli Public Opinion and Separation from the Palestinians. INSS, January 2014
• The Political Process: Plan A, Plan B, and What Lies Between Them. INSS, January 2014
• International Efforts to Delegitimize Israel: Comoros versus Israel at the ICC. INSS, December 2013
• The time to prepare for evacuation of the West Bank is now. Haaretz, November 2013
• Why Israel must make bold move to secure Palestinian peace talks – and Israel's future. Op-ed contributors, July 2013
• Kerry's next move in the Middle East. Los Angeles Times, July 2013
• Toward Resumption of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations INSS. INSS, July 2013
• Privacy, security, or both? An elusive balance. The Jerusalem Post, June 2013
• Unilateral Peace. Unilateral Peace Israel, March 2013
• Dividing the Land, Not the People. INSS Strategic Assesment, January 2013
• The Israeli Elections 2013: A Primer. Fair Observer, January 2013
• Mahmoud Abbas’ UN Gambit will not Bring Peace. INSS, November 2012
• Op-Ed: Steps Israel should take to control its destiny. JTA site, October 2012
• The Arab Peace Initiative: Worth Reexamination. INSS, October 2012
• No more waiting. The time for Israel to make peace is now. The Jewish Chronicle, August 2012
• Don't make legalizing settlements Israel's grave. Haaretz, July 2012
• A New Look at Afghanistan. INSS, July 2012
• From vision to reality: Tangible steps towards a two-stage solution. INSS Strategic Assesment, July 2012
• A Divide Over the Settlements in the West Bank. New York Times, July 2012
• Alone, Together. The Jerusalem Report, June 2012
• Have the Palestinians Despaired of the Two-State Formula? INSS, May 2012
• Peace Without Partners, The York Times, April 2012
• Bottom-up Push for a Solution, The Jerusalem Report, October 2011
• The only game in town, The Jerusalem Report, September 2011
• From Camp David to business, lessons about Negotiation Interview with Gilead sher, Forbes, September 2011
• Start with 242, Not 1967, The Jerusalem Report, June 2011
• A Regional Hope?, The Jerusalem Report, June 2011
• No time to lose in the Middle East peace process, The Guardian.co.uk, January 2011
• Why I doubt Binyamin Netanyahu, The Guardian.co.uk, September 2010
• Camp David: Ten years on for Middle East peace, The Jewish Chronicle Online, July 2010
• Peace requires a more hands-on approach by Washington, The daily Star, May 2010
• The best of a bad lot?, bitterlemons, May 2010
• Consider welcoming Palestinian unilateralism, bitterlemons, September 2009
• The grand bargain that is the Mideast’s best hope - Financial Times.com, August 2009 (with Shai Feldman)
• A Blueprint for Obama, The Mideast Peace Pulse ,April 2009
• Beyond Utopia: Rethinking Refugees, The Jerusalem Post, October 2008, With Dr. Orit Gal
• A secure Israel within recognized borders – Bitterlemons, June 2008
• Negotiating Jerusalem: Reflections of an Israeli Negotiator – in Jerusalem – Idea and Reality, Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad, editors, Routledge, May 2008
• The Holy Places in Jerusalem Old City - Guidelines for a Future Arrangement - with Nazmi Al-Ju’beh, Mediterranean Perspectives, Rome
• What Jerusalem needs now – The Jewish Chronicles, June 2007
• 1967-2007: Israel's Options Under Darkening Clouds of Islamic Jihad over the Middle East, May 2007 
• It's back to the same principles, Haaretz, March 2007
• A Legal Framework for the Old City – The Jerusalem Old City Initiative, University of Windsor et al, December 2005, with M. Bell, M. Molloy, J. Bell and M. Evans
• Legal Aspects of Settlement Evacuation - (November 2003. with Kadari, A., Schmeidler, E., Gillis, J. and Mnookin, R.). Harvard PON Working Paper No. 04-121; Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 103
• Don't reject Syrian peace overtures – Yedioth Aharonot, October 2006
• Adopt a two-tier municipal plan for the East Jerusalem area - The Daily Star, January 10, 2006
• The Beginning of a Solution - Bitterlemons
• Jerusalem’s Old City must remain united - Yedioth Aharonot, December 2005
• A sound Israeli perspective - Bitterlemons, March 2004
• The decision that needs to be made, Haaretz, February 2004
• Geneva's not so good for Israel -  Haaretz, November 2003
• The separation imperative - Haaretz, November 2003
• Essential lessons from the Camp David summit - Bitterlemons, July 2003
• Camp David Three Years After– Bitterlemons, July 2003, Edition 28
• A stabilizing force headed by the U.S. - Haaretz, June 2003
• Towards Negotiations with A Different Leadership, New Directions (Hebrew) April 2003, Vol. 8, p. 32
• Policy Paper (with Uri Saguy) The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, August 2002
• Comments on the negotiating strategies of Israel and the Palestinians – Bitterlemons, June17, 2002 Edition 22
• The Folly Parade – Following Amnon Abramowitz’s Investigation, The Seventh Eye, The Israel democracy Institute, 1997
• Lessons from the Camp David Experience, The Camp David Summit-What Went Wrong? Edited by Shimon Shamir and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Sussex Academic Press and Tel Aviv University, 2005, p. 60
• Five years on, was Camp David really such a failure? The Jewish News July 7, 2005 p. 15
• Articles in Haaretz; Ynet; The Jerusalem Post, Yedioth Aharonot, NFC, Globes, The Jerusalem Report
• Articles and reports, Koteret Rashit weekly, 1983-1987 - Bitterlemons, January 2006 - Jerusalem and Palestinian elections - Ed. 3

Conferences and Lectures

• The Dangerous Status Quo Calls for Pro-Activity, “Spoilers of Peace and the Dilemmas of Conflict Resolution”, The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, November 2012
• 21 Minutes on Middle East Vision - Highlights day 1, commencing at 1:07 min to 2:33 min, Milan 19-21 November, 2009. 21min: Intervista a Gilead Sher ;  Gilead Sher a 21min, EDiT @ 21min.org, thanks Gilead Sher
• Secure Borders for Israel: Government must plan disengagement parallel to pursuing the negotiations, The Council for Peace and Security, Tel Aviv, March 2009
• A secure Israel within recognized Borders - Article - May 26th, 2008
• The Day after Annapolis - Article – November 27th, 2007
• Leadership Challenges of the 21st Century – public event, Universidad San Pablo de Guatemala, Guatemala City, August 2008
• The Art of Negotiations – Progetto SABB, Assisi, July 2007, July 2007
• http://www.informaazione.org/scheda_news.asp?ID=101
• http://62.149.238.51/documenti/sabb_eng_brochure.pdf
• Between Jerusalem and Annapolis: An Ir Amim Conference – Jerusalem, June 2008
• The Status Quo at the Holy Sites in the Old City of Jerusalem – Rome, December 2006, March, June 2007
• The struggle towards Two States for Two Peoples – Herzlyiah's Inter Disciplinary Center, December 2007
• 1967-2007 - Israel's Middle East options – Military Academy, Guatemala City, 2007
• The Arab-Israeli War: An Israeli Negotiator Provides Lessons for the Future – The Middle East Institute and C-SPAN, Washington, DC, August 2006
• The upcoming elections and the political process – Harry S. Truman Institute, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 2006
• The Art and Practice of Political Negotiations – The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, lecture to high-level officials, November 2005
• Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the Disengagement Plan - The Israel Bar Annual Conference, Eilat, May-June 2005
• Coping With Terrorism: The Israeli Survival Kit – The First International Anti-Terrorism Conference, Denver, March 2004
• Market Opportunities in U.S. Homeland Security – Business Conference, Tel Aviv, February 2004
• Preparedness as a State Of Mind - Emergency Preparedness Seminar, Denver, June 2003
• Imagining the other in The Middle East, Northwestern University, April 2003
• The role of Nationalism and its impact on the Middle East, Yakar Center for Social Concern, 24 January 2002
• Human Rights and Search for Global Responsibility, The Forum 2000 Foundation under the auspices of the Czech President Vaclav Havel, 15-18 October 2001, Prague Castle, Czech Republic
• Lessons from the Israeli-Palestinian Permanent Peace Negotiations, SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management, The Wharton School, SEI Board Meeting, October 3-4, 2001
• Positions and Interests in International negotiations, The Annual Convention of the Mediators in Israel, August 30, 2001
• Oslo – A Reassessment of the Process and New Directions, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East, Ben Gurion University – An International Conference: June 18-19, 2001
• The Brink Of Peace? An Inside Look From Camp David To Taba, The Washington Institute, Special Policy Forum, April 16, 2001
• Camp David Summit (2000): What Went Wrong? Lessons for the Future, Objectives and Strategies of the Parties, Tel Aviv University, June 16-18, 2003
• The Arab-Israeli Conflict is Ripe for Resolution, a public debate, London, February 2003
• The Peace Process - Vision Versus Reality, Tel Aviv University – Peace in Brief, the Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research
• Separation and Conciliation, Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, Vol. 10 No. 1 2003, p.106
• The Road Map is a good method, Les Cahiers de L’Orient, No. 70, spring 2003
• Lectures in IDF Elite and Intelligence units; Israel’s National Security Council; Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Teaching
 

• Negotiating in Times of Crisis: Functional Disciplinary Integration, Multi-Issue and Multi-Party Negotiations, The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania, MBA Pre-Term Sessions, August 2002-August 2011
• The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute and the attempts to resolve it in a Two-State Solution, an MA seminar at Tel Aviv University's program on Dispute Resolution and Public Policy, 2007-2013

• The Process underlying the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, an MA Seminar in The International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, The Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 2010-2013

• Dispute Resolution In Intractable Conflicts: Lessons Drawn from the Palestinian–Israeli Negotiations, Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiations - April 14, 2003

• Decision Making and Leadership seminar – Master degree students, Universidad San Pablo de Guatemala, Guatemala City, August 2008

Professional Listing – International

• Chambers Global – The World’s Leading Lawyers
• The European Legal 500
• Dun & Bradstreet and DUN’s 100
• BDI Coface
• IFLR 1000

Interviews

• On major TV and radio networks – global, international, regional, state, local, Arab, etc.
• In news agencies (Reuters, AFP, AP, Bloomberg, etc.)
• In newspapers and periodicals
• In documentaries and mini-series – Shattered Dreams of Peace (SET Productions); Israel and the Arabs - Elusive Peace (Brook Lapping for BBC TWO); Oriental (Avi Nesher); A Million Bullets in October (Norma Productions)
• Si Obama logra la paz podrá ser presidente en Israel - Interview by Óscar Abou-Kassem for Publico.es, April 2010
• A very typical first meeting - Interview by The Pulse team, may 2009
• A unique opportunity - Interview by Bitterlemons, January 2009
• YNET, February 9th 2009
• TheMarker April 2nd 2006