This presentation will cover Arab-Israeli peace initiatives and their impacts following the 1994 Oslo Accords. The focus will be on American-led peace initiatives under both the Trump and Biden administrations, with a discussion of projected American foreign policy under a second Trump term. The role Palestine plays will be addressed within the domestic politics of Arab states, the impact of Arab-Israeli peace on Palestine, and the ways in which these peace initiatives have exacerbated conditions for violent conflict.
Dana El Kurd is an assistant professor at the University of Richmond in the Department of Political Science, and a senior non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington. She specializes in Palestinian and Arab politics. Her first book, titled Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine was published in January 2020 with Oxford University Press. Her work has been published in academic journals such as Global Studies Quarterly, PS Political Science & Politics, and Democratization, as well as media outlets such as The Nation, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and more.
