Berndt Michael Schulz

Location

The Psychology Building, room F6

Materials

IK2231 vt2024.pdf

Description

The Israeli-Palestinian is probably the oldest ongoing armed conflict in our contemporary world that has gone through several stages since its beginning. In these three lectures, a mapping of the key issues, actors, and changes in conflict patterns over time will be made. Further, key events, as well as conflict transformation/resolution attempts will also be part of the analysis.

Teacher's Background

Michael Schulz is Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies and has conducted extensive research on various aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict since the 1980s (civil resistance, democracy and state building, conflict analysis, conflict transformation analysis, peace education, security, and regionalization). His most recent book deals with civil-society-based democracy-promoting resistance activities in Asia (Myanmar and Palestine). The book title is Civil Resistance and Democracy Promotion in Asia (London: Routledge, 2023).

Required Reading

Aide Esu (2016) Violence and Statebuilding in a Borders Conflict Context: A Study of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 10:2, 261-277, DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2015.1054658

Chapter 16, Environment, conflict, and peace in Understanding International Conflict Management.

Recommended Reading

Aggestam, Karin, 1998, Reframing and Resolving Conflict. Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998. Lund: Lund University Press.

Jacob Eriksson, Jacob, 2015, Small-State Mediation in International Conflicts: Diplomacy and Negotiation in Israel-Palestine, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd.

Gelvin, James L, 2005, The Israeli-Palestine Conflict. One Hundred Years of Conflict, Cambridge: Cambdrige University Press.

Ghantous, Wassim, 2020. Settler-Colonial Assemblages and the Making of the Israeli Frontier: Palestinian experiences of (in)security, surveillance and carceral geographies, PhD thesis, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Meital, Yoram, 2006, Peace in Tatters. Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East, Boulder/London: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Persson, Anders, 2020, EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967-2019, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Schulz, Michael, 2020, Hamas Between Resistance, Sharia Law and Demo-Islamic Politics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Group (Critical Engagements with Power and Social Change series).

Strömbom, Lisa, 2010, Revisiting the Past Israeli identity, thick recognition and conflict transformation, Lund University.

Svirsky, Marcelo, 2012, Arab-Jewish Activism in Israel-Palestine. Farnham: Ashgate.