UPH presents study on confederal proposals for Israeli-Palestinian conflict

UPEACE Centre The Hague (UPH) is proud to present a study on proposals for more inclusive or confederal arrangements in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With this initiative, we hope to contribute to further efforts and studies to revive prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine on the basis of a two-state outcome.

The report consists of an executive summary and four separate papers (view by clicking on hyperlinks):

Different Inclusive or Confederal Proposals for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a literature review, providing an extensive overview of the various initiatives over the past decades for cooperation models to help solve the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Examples of inclusive or confederal models that helped to reduce conflict and promote cooperation elsewhere, which offers a comparative overview of comparable models of confederations across the world and throughout history.
The Jerusalem Question, on the city that is at the centre of competing religious and political claims.
The Concept of Permanent Residency Status in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that looks at the definition and the various political, legal, security and other issues that need to be considered when applying permanent residency status to address the issue of refugees and settlers.

The study is the work of Christoph Schmitt, a German alumnus of the University for Peace who, after following a year-long Masters’ at the UPEACE campus in Costa Rica, spent a three-month internship on this investigation. The project was supervised by Robert Serry, UPH chairman and former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and was also partly facilitated by the Rabbani Foundation in The Hague.