September 16, 2008

Prof. Daphne Barak-Erez

“Feminist Battle for Citizenship in Israel: Between Combat Duties and Conscientious Objection”

September 25, 2008

The Globalization of Peace

The Honorable Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel

January 29, 2009  

The Price of Peace: Palestinian Property in Israel and the Peace Process

The fate of property abandoned within Israel – agricultural land, houses, moveable property, and etcetera – has figured in every serious discussion on solving the Palestinian refugee problem, and will certainly be on the agenda of final settlement/peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.  How much property was abandoned? What monetary value can be placed on it today and how are these likely very large sums of money to be paid? The answers to these questions can be either an obstacle to peace – or could contribute to the evolution of peaceful relations between the sides.  These issues should be confronted by experts in the field and debated publicly.  The “Price of Peace” symposium provided a forum for the Tel Aviv-based Macro Institute think tank to present the results of a ten-year research project on the subject, followed by discussion with leading experts in the field.

 

Co-Sponsors:  The Macro Center for Political Economics in Israel, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU

Symposium Participants:

Prof. Michael Fischbach, Professor of History, Randolph Macon College; author of Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Mr. Marwan Jilani, former Executive Director of the Geneva Peace Initiative

Prof. Michael Marrus, emeritus professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto and author of The Holocaust in History

Dr. Roby Nathanson, Director General of the Macro Center for Political Economics

Ms. Hagar Tzameret-Kertcher, Research Director at the Macro Center for Political Economics

Prof. Ronald Zweig, Director of the Taub Center for Israel Studies at NYU

 

February 17, 2009

New Leadership in Israel and the Peace Process

Professor Yoram Peri, Head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society at Tel Aviv University

 

March 12, 2009

Negotiating Peace with Syria – Lessons from the Past, Promises for the Future

Ambassador Martin Indyk, Former US Ambassador to Israel

Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, Former Israel Ambassador to US & Israel’s Chief Negotiator with Syria