Democracy and Conflict Resolution: The Dilemmas of Israel's Peacemaking

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments T H E I D E A F O R T H I S B O O K originated in March 2008 when several of the chapters were initially presented at the annual convention of the International Studies Association (ISA). We are grateful to Emmanuel Adler of the University of Toronto for extending an invitation to us the following November to present revised versions of our conference papers at the Munk Centre. The useful feedback and positive encouragement we received in Toronto motivated us to forge ahead with the project. A subsequent panel at the annual ISA convention in New York in February 2009 included new participants as chapter authors. These scholars then joined us, and a new set of collaborators, at a conference, “Democracy, Religion, and Conflict: the Dilemmas of Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking ” in March 2009. Hosted by the Maxwell School of Syracuse University , this conference provided us with the opportunity to share our work with a broader audience and turn our earlier conference papers into book chapters. We thank Margaret Hermann, Director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, for generously funding the conference. We also are appreciative of the conference co-sponsorships provided by Syracuse University’s Middle Eastern Studies Program, the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), the Executive Education Program, and the Judaic Studies Program. We thank Louis Kriesberg, Ken Frieden, and Zachary Braiterman for chairing the conference panels, and Jeremy Pressman for serving as discussant and, in that capacity, providing us with extraordinarily helpful suggestions for revision. Sevgi Saran, then a master’s student in the International Relations Program, went beyond the call of duty to provide logistical support before, during, and after the conference. xii ▲ Acknowledgments Since March 2009, the Maxwell School’s PARCC and Moynihan Institute, Northwestern University’s Buffett Center, Science Po, Queen’s University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, and George Washington University’s Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School provided each of us with a hospitable environment to further rework our own chapters and the book project as a whole. The many presentations that we made at various seminars, public talks, and speaker series at these institutions provided us with not only helpful constructive criticism, but also the encouragement that all book editors regularly need. We thank the many scholars at these institutions, who are also acknowledged individually in each chapter, for reading and commenting on earlier chapter drafts. At Syracuse University Press, Robert Rubinstein, editor of the Series on Peace and Conflict Resolution, has our admiration for not only offering incredibly helpful substantive recommendations on earlier versions of the manuscript, but also for his willingness to step in to assist whenever needed on the technical end. A firm believer in this project from the moment he learned about it at the March 2009 conference, Robert buoyed our spirits on more than one occasion, and we are grateful to his careful and attentive interventions from the get go. We also thank Mary Selden Evans and Annelise Finnegan, both of whom encouraged us to submit our book to SUP but who left the Press while the manuscript was still in the review process. Mary and Annelise gave us helpful suggestions early on and helped with the transition to new editors, Jennika Baines and Suzanne Guiod. We thank Jennika, Suzanne, and Alice Randel Pfeiffer for helping us throughout the publishing process. We are also grateful to SUP office coordinator Erica Sheftic who fielded multiple emails in a timely and helpful manner. Anonymous reviewers offered helpful midcourse corrections and helped to make this book a better one. At Northwestern University, we thank graduate student Jesse Dillon Savage for his tremendous help with formatting and copyediting and Thomas O’Connell at the university library for his input on the cover picture. We are also grateful to David Prout for creating one of the most user-friendly indexes of all time. Acknowledgments ▲ xiii Lastly, we thank our chapter authors who willingly wrote and re-wrote their chapters, and responded quickly to our many requests for revisions. Since 2008, when we first began to conceptualize the contours of this book, our authors have been the key to the project’s success. It has been our great pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with each and every one of them and we look...