Muslim/Arab Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Inter- and intraclan conflicts in northern Israel pit hundreds against each other in revenge cycles that take years to resolve and impact the entire community. The Sulha is a Sharia-based traditional conflict resolution process that works independently of formal legal systems and is widely practiced to manage such conflicts in the north of Israel, as well as throughout the Muslim and Arab worlds.
The Sulha process works by effecting a gradual attitudinal transformation, from a desire for revenge to a willingness to forgive, through restoration of the victims clan sense of honour. Muslim/Arab Mediation and Conflict Resolution examines the process of Sulha, as practiced by the Arab population of northern Israel, where it plays a central role in the maintenance of peace among Muslims, Christians, and Druze alike. It presents detailed analysis of every stage of this at times protracted process. It uses interviews with victims, perpetrators, Sulha practitioners, community leaders, participant observation, and lawyers, along with statistical analysis to examine how Sulha affects peoples lives, how various sectors of society impact the practice, and how it coexists with Israels formal legal system. Furthermore, it examines how Sulha compares to Western dispute resolution processes.
This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the entire Sulha process, and is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle East studies, Islamic studies and conflict resolution.
Doron Pely is Executive Director of the Sulha Research Centre (www.sulha.org) in Shefaamer, Israel. His research explores Muslim/Arab dispute resolution practices, and conflict and justice in multi-cultural environments.
Israeli History, Politics and Society
Series Editor: Efraim Karsh
Kings College London
This series provides a multidisciplinary examination of all aspects of Israeli history, politics and society, and serves as a means of communication between the various communities interested in Israel: academics, policy-makers, practitioners, journalists and the informed public.
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The challenge for Israel
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2The Shaping of Israeli Identity
Myth, memory and trauma
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3Between War and Peace
Dilemmas of Israeli security
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4USIsraeli Relations at the Crossroads
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5Revisiting the Yom Kippur War
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6Israel
The dynamics of change and continuity
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7In Search of Identity
Jewish aspects in Israeli culture
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8Israel at the Polls, 1996
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9From Rabin to Netanyahu
Israels troubled agenda
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10Fabricating Israeli History
The New Historians, second revised edition
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12Peacemaking in a Divided Society
Israel after Rabin
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13A Twenty-Year Retrospective of EgyptianIsraeli Relations
Peace in spite of everything
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14Global Politics
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15Parties, Elections and Cleavages
Israel in comparative and theoretical perspective
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16Israel at the Polls, 1999
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17Public Policy in Israel
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18Developments in Israeli Public Administration
Edited by Moshe Maor
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20IsraeliRomanian Relations at the End of Ceaucecus Era
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21John F Kennedy and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
Abraham Ben-Zvi
22Green Crescent over Nazareth
The displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land
Raphael Israeli
23Jerusalem Divided
The Armistice Region, 19471967
Raphael Israeli
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America, Britain and wartime diplomacy, 19391945
Monty Noam Penkower
25A Dissenting Democracy
The Israeli movement Peace Now
Magnus Norell
26British, Israel and Anglo-Jewry 19471957
Natan Aridan
27Israeli Identity
In search of a successor to the pioneer, tsabar and settler
Lilly Weissbrod
28The Israeli Palestinians
An Arab minority in the Jewish state
Edited by Alexander Bligh
29Israel, the Hashemites and the Palestinians
The fateful triangle
Edited by Efraim Karsh and P. R. Kumaraswamy
30The Last Days in Israel
Abraham Diskin
31War in Palestine, 1948
Strategy and diplomacy
David Tal
32Rethinking the Middle East
Efraim Karsh
33Ben-Gurion against the Knesset
Giora Goldberg
34Trapped Fools
Thirty years of Israeli policy in the territories
Schlomo Gazit
35Israels Quest for Recognition and Acceptance in Asia
Garrison state diplomacy
Jacob Abadi
36H. V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel
The undercover Zionist
Daniel Mandel
37Navigating Perilous Waters
An Israeli strategy for peace and security
Ephraim Sneh
38Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
In the shadow of the hawk
Abraham Ben-Zvi
39Israel at the Polls, 2003
Edited by Shmuel Sandler, Ben M. Mollov and Jonathan Rynhold
40Between Capital and Land
The Jewish National Funds finances and land-purchase priorities in Palestine, 19391945
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41Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
42Israeli Institutions at the Crossroads
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
43The IsraeliPalestine Peace Negotiations, 19992001
Within reach
Gilead Sher
44Ben-Gurions Political Struggles, 196367
A lion in winter
Zaki Shalom
45Ben-Gurion, Zionism and American Jewry
19481963
Ariel Feldestein
46The Origins of the AmericanIsraeli Alliance
The Jordanian factor
Abraham Ben-Zvi
47The Harp and the Shield of David
Ireland, Zionism and the state of Israel
Shulamit Eliash
48Israels National Security
Issues and challenges since the Yom Kippur War
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49The Rise of Israel
A history of a revolutionary state
Jonathan Adelman
50Israel and the Family of Nations
The Jewish nation-state and human rights
Alexander Yakobson and Amnon Rubinstein
51Secularism and Religion in JewishIsraeli Politics
Traditionists and modernity
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52Israels National Security Law
Political dynamics and historical development
Amichai Cohen and Stuart A. Cohen
53Politics of Memory
The Israeli undergrounds struggle for inclusion in the national pantheon and military commemoralization
