Description
The papers included in this volume look at the reasons the two-state solution has failed to succeed until the present day and con sider what prospects for future success or failure it still has, thereby looking at the issue from various angles (historical, conceptual and religious aspects; implications for the refugee question, Jerusalem, the settlement issue and the future geography of
Pales tine/Israel). The various proposed approaches to solve the Palestinian/Israeli impasse explored in this volume were provoked by a number of concrete questions, such as whether there is still a possibility for a (short-term or permanent) two-state solution; how the two-state solution should be reevaluated, given that all recent breakthroughs in the reconciliation
process of inter-communal or ethnic disputes (e.g., Northern Ireland, South Africa) have been based on federal, consociational, and autonomy arrangements, and not on partition; and what kind of practicable models could be envisioned for the Palestinian-Israeli case.
