On Monday, June 9th, the JPC hosted Eyal Sher, Executive Producer of the Peacehub initiative. The initiative brings Israeli-Palestinian representatives to the negotiating table in front of a live-stream web camera for hypothetical peace talks. He spoke of the origin of the idea, bringing it to life and his hopes for its effects.
To follow the talks (16-19.7) enter the website: https://peacehub.net/
About The peacehub initiative:
The peacehub initiative is designed to give Israelis and Palestinians insight into the official negotiation process to enrich the public discourse with expert information on the core issues of contention, agreed upon solutions and a vision of the outline for a comprehensive agreement.
At the heart of the initiative is a live webcast of professional negotiations between a Palestinian delegation lead by Jibril Rajoub, former head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Force in the West Bank, an Israeli delegation led by Attorney Gilead Sher, chief Israeli negotiator at the 2000 Camp David Summit, and an international mediation delegation led by your colleague, Prof. Robert H. Mnookin, Chair of the Harvard Program on Negotiation.
With the Clinton understandings, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Geneva Initiative at their basis, and employing a “single text” process, the negotiations will tackle the core issues of the conflict – Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, security and territory. The mediators will also address the difficult if unavoidable relational issues that have so often thwarted pervious efforts to forge agreements. The negotiations will take place in Jericho, June 16-19, 2014.
