Jerusalem: Conflict and Resolution
May 5-6, 2000, Talloires, France

About This Panel

At the initiative of the Vice-President of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, in collaboration with the Dean of the Graduate School and the Dean of Humanities and Arts, a symposium on the future of Jerusalem was held on May 5-6, 2000 at Tufts University's European Center in Talloires, France, in recognition of the importance of Jerusalem as a key to peace in the Middle East.

The symposium was designed to provide an opportunity for leading experts, scholars and practitioners to identify and explore problems and resolutions related to its final status. Emphasis was placed upon a practical multi-disciplinary approach that would draw on the religious, historical, political and demographic identity of the city to produce practical measures for solving the problems of its future.

Panelists:

• Walid Khalidi was born in Jerusalem and educated at Oxford and the University of London, and has also been a research fellow at Princeton University. He has taught at Oxford, the American University of Beirut, and Harvard, where he was senior research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He is cofounder of both the Royal Scientific Society in Amman and of the Institute for Palestine Studies, of which he has been general secretary since 1963, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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• Karen Armstrong, a freelance writer and broadcaster, is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in the English-speaking world today. A former Roman Catholic nun, she holds a degree in modern literature from Oxford, taught modern literature at the University of London, and was head of the English department at a secondary school. She now teaches part-time at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and the Training of Rabbis and Teachers in London.
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• Rashid Khalidi, Professor of Middle East history and director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, holds degrees from Yale and Oxford. He is president of the American Committee on Jerusalem and past president of the Middle East Studies Association and was an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.
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• Menachem Klein, a graduate of the Hebrew University, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at BarIlan University and a senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel
  Studies. He has been a fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and is currently a board member of B'etselem and of Ir-Shalem and a counselor for Jerusalem affairs and Israel-PLO final status talks to the Israeli minister of interior security.
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• Ian Lustick is Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Richard L. Simon Term Chair in Social Sciences. He is a founder and past president of the Association for Israel Studies, a former president of the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association, and currently serves as associate director of the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.
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• Richard Murphy is Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for the Middle East and director of Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is president of the Chatham House Foundation, US, and chairman of the Middle East Institute. He served as assistant secretary of state for New Eastern and South Asian Affairs and in the United States foreign service as ambassador to Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Syria, and Mauritania. His specialty is the Middle East and South Asia, and he holds honorary doctorates from New England College and Baltimore Hebrew University.
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• Salim Tamari is director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem and professor of sociology at Birzeit University, specializing in urban, rural, and political sociology. He has been visiting professor at New York University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, and the University of Michigan.
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