Deconstructing and Re-constructing the Two State Solution

Monday, December 16^th 

7:00 pm: Dinner and Speaker (By invitation)

“Historical Overview of the Conflict and Possible Solutions”
Dennis Ross

Venue: “Lara” restaurant.

Tuesday, December 17^th

 Venue:  Beit Maeirsdorf, the Hebrew University

AM: Invited remarks from policy community (closed to all but invited guests)

09:00 am-10:30 am – Brief on currents security situation and instability in the region

Speaker:
Lt. General (Res.) Shaul Mofaz.

 10:30-10:45 am: Coffee Break .

10:45 am-12:30 pm – Partisan Issues including settlers, borders, and Jerusalem–
RC recommendation:

• Borders – Brig.Gen (res)Udi Dekel

• Settlers – Col (res) Otniel Schneller (former member of the Kneset for Kadima and a settler in Ma’ale Mikmas).

• Jerusalem – Pini Meidan Shani

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00-5:30 pm: Historical and/or theoretical insights into security issues facing a two state solution (open to faculty and students)

2:00 – 3:30 pm: Panel 1: What are the problems associated with creating legitimate borders?

• Chair: Alex Mintz (IDC)

• Kenneth Schultz (Stanford)

• Mike Mastanduno (Dartmouth)

• Amir Lupovici (Tel Aviv)

• David Newmann (Ben Gurion)

3:30-3:45pm: Coffee Break

3:45-5:30pm: Panel 2: Is there a role for external guarantors and/or third party intervention in cases of contested borders? In cases of protracted disagreement among parties, is unilateral action by one side warranted?

• Chair: Yoram Haftel (HUJI)

• Gabriel Blum (Harvard)

• Charles Kupchan (Georgetown)

• Udi Eiran (Haifa)

Group of relevant practitioners as commentators:

• Pini Meidan Shani

• Col (res) Gilad Sher

• Brig. Gen (res) Udi Dekel.

7:30 pm, Dinner and Speaker:  “Status of Two States from the Israeli Vantage Point”
Prof. Shlomo Avineri

Venue: “Gabriel” restaurant

Wednesday, December 18^th (open to faculty and students)

9:00 am-12:30 pm: Reconsidering Fundamental Issues of Sovereignty, Statehood and Governance

9:00-10:30 am: Panel 3: Are conventional notions of sovereignty applicable in the context of Israel and Palestine? Are there alternatives?

• Chair: Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv)

• Stephen Krasner (Stanford)

• Thomas Risse (Berlin)

• Piki Ish-Shalom (HUJI)

• Oren Barak ( HUJI)

10:30-10:45 am: coffee break

10:45-12:15 pm: Panel 4: Are there cases of stable governance in situations of “compromised” sovereignty?

• Chair: Judith Goldstein (Stanford)

• David Lake (UCSD)

• Tanya Borzel (Berlin)

• Arie Kacowicz (HUJI)

• Ruth Lapidot (HUJI)

Group of relevant practitioners as commentators, TBD

• Col (res) Pninah Baruch Sharvit

• Col. (Res.) Adv. Daniel Reisner

12:30-2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00-5:30 pm: How can public goods be delivered across contested borders?

2:00-3:30 pm: Panel 5: How have governments in nations subject to long term social and political conflict provided collective goods?

• Chair: Galia Press-Barnathan

• Michael Barnet (George Washington)

• James Davis (St. Gallen)

• Dani Miodownik (HUJI)

• Becky Kook ( Ben Gurion)

3:30-3:45 pm: Coffee Break

3:45-5:15 pm: Panel 6: Can private actors, either through markets or NGOs, be a source of technical, economic and/or pubic goods?

• Chair: Stephen Krasner

• Paul Wise (Stanford)

• Judith Goldstein (Stanford)

• John Pevehouse (U of Wisconsin)

• Itay Fishendler (HUJI)

• Alfred Tovias (HUJI)

5:15-6:30 pm: Roundtable:  Practioners’ Response

• Chair: Charles Kupchan

• Mr. Naser Tahabub– deputy economy minister

• Mr. Dan Catarivas – Head of foreign trade and international relation in Manufacturers Association

• Mr. Adi Ashkenazi

• Brig. Gen(res) Dov (Fufi) Sedaka

• Ms. Ola Awad – Head of Palestinian central bureau of statistics.

7:30 pm: Dinner for Panel Participants

Venue: “Kiara” restaurant.