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As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues, a sense of justice in many has brought with it high-pitched criticism and for some necessitates further examination. Obligated with a sense of justice, there is a shared instinctual understanding that economic stability can bring with it the moral decency to tackle social inequities, even if faced with normative relativism. Today’s dispatch explores the economic peace efforts that are actively being taken in the Palestinian territories, Israel and abroad. It also asks some important questions about the use of soft intervention versus hard intervention in conflicts, of this nature, and about human security as opposed to state security. In this investigation, the goal is to develop a deeper understanding of the reasons that have led so many people toward broad-stroke favoritism when it appears that a political solution would benefit tremendously from the opposite and would include accountability on all sides.
In the process of writing one article on the subject, it became evident that with all due respect to the veracious nature of those who were contacted for the dispatch, it would benefit from being presented as a two-part series, so as not to leave a stone unturned. This two-part series will start with an interview with Marc Gopin, director of George Mason University's Center on Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, who, as an author, professor, rabbi, and researcher, has been involved in numerous track II diplomatic efforts in endeavoring to use conflict resolution techniques that cultivate understanding and respect. The second part of this series handles matters of a more pecuniary nature with a look at economic peace efforts in the Palestinian territories by those who live in the region and importers, while also exploring efforts by social networkers toward deconstructing the negative effects of occupation and conflict on cross-cultural connections between everyday Palestinians and Israelis to build a better future given such dissonant circumstances.
Part One:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5249-SF-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2010m2d22-IsraeliPalestinian-conflict--discussion-with-Marc-Gopin-Part-1-on-economic-peace--justice
Part Two:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5249-SF-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2010...
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