Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind (born 1953) is a practising psychotherapist and group analyst, who works in conflict resolution in the Middle East. Much of her special contribution is around the role of human motivation and behaviour in resolving conflict.

Gabrielle Rifkind, group analyst and conflict resolution specialist.

She directs the Oxford Process[1] which started off as a programme of the NGO, Oxford Research Group,[2] but is now a separate conflict prevention initiative which specialises in managing radical disagreement.

A political entrepreneur, Rifkind has, over the last decade, created a number of quiet behind-the-scenes round-table discussions, often between groups who are not currently in dialogue in the Middle East. Her special areas of interest are Iran and the Palestine-Israel conflict. Her particular areas of expertise are the creation of suitable environments for negotiations and addressing the historical traumas and mistrust of the parties involved to avoid disruption of talks. Rifkind believes that creating a coherent and sustained framework is essential for any kind of negotiation, as it allows to deal not only with substance but also with the suspicions that sits in the way of the resolution of conflict.

A graduate of the University of Manchester and postgraduate of the University of Edinburgh, Rifkind lives in London and makes regular contributions to the media, e.g. for The Guardian,[3][4] The Independent[5][6][7][8] and BBC Radio 4.[9] She has appeared on various news and political analysis programmes, has given many public lectures and engaged in debates at venues ranging from the Oxford Union ( "Time to talk to Hamas?") and the House of Commons[10] to Chatham House and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.[11]

She is author, with Scilla Elworthy, of Making Terrorism History (Random House, 2005), with Giandomenico Picco, of The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War (I.B. Tauris, 2016).,[12] and The Psychology of Political Extremism: What would Sigmund Freud have thought about Islamic State (Routledge, 2018).[13]

Publications
  • Language of war, language of peace and its application to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, Psychotherapy and Politics International, June 2004, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp115–122[14]
  • Co-author, Making Terrorism History, Random House, London, 2005[15]
  • 'Separating aspirations from realities', The Jerusalem Post, 1 May 2006[16]
  • 'No matter what Israel and Hamas do to each other, the solution won't be rational', The Independent, 16 July 2006[17]
  • 'What Lies Beneath the Rhetoric', Ha'aretz, 12 December 2006[18]
  • 'Want to ease tensions with Iran? Just try talking', The Independent, 13 February 2007[19]
  • 'From Crisis to Opportunity', The Jerusalem Post, February 2007[20]
  • 'A Standing Conference Table: A Process for Sustainable Peace in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict’, Oxford Research Group, July 2007
  • 'This dialogue of the deaf is making war more likely', The Independent, 28 October 2007[21]
  • 'Western diplomacy and psychology', Therapy Today, November 2007[22]
  • 'The Arab Peace Initiative: Why Now?, Oxford Research Group, November 2008. A report following the Oxford Research Group roundtable on ‘The Arab Peace Initiative as a possible exit from the current impasse – the role of the international community’ at Charney Manor in Oxfordshire on 15–17 October 2008[23]
  • 'The man to sell peace to the Middle East', The Independent, 24 January 2009[24]
  • 'A route to resolution for Syria and Israel', The Guardian, 26 February 2010[25]
  • 'Pariahs to Pioneers' Oxford Research Group, May 2010[26]
  • 'Solving the West Bank settler problem', The Guardian, September 2010[27]
  • 'Iran nuclear talks: signs of cautious optimism emerge', The Guardian, May 2012[28]
  • 'To help Syria, talk first to Iran and Saudi Arabia', The Guardian, February 2013[29]
  • 'A New Levant: a possible way through in the Syrian Crisis', openDemocracy, February 2013[30]
  • 'One Signature by Assad Could Help  to Avert the Bombing', The Times, September 2013[31][32]
  • 'Our war-torn world needs a new mediating body to resolve conflicts', The Guardian, March 2014[33]
  • 'The fog of war: it is hard to think about peace', openDemocracy, July 2014[34]
  • 'The new great regional game: Saudi Arabia and Iran', openDemocracy, July 2014[35]
  • 'Alternatives to military intervention: a commando team of mediators', openDemocracy, September 2014[36]
  • 'Britain needn't withdraw from the world stage, but we need a vision', The Independent, May 2015[37]
  • 'We need to defeat Islamic State – but how?', openDemocracy, December 2015[38]
  • 'Chilcot tells us what we already knew – how do we implement?', openDemocracy, July 2016[39]
  • 'We need emotional and political intelligence in politics', Jewish Chronicle, July 2016[40]
  • 'Chilcot: all peaceful options were not exhausted', openDemocracy, July 2016[41]
  • Co-Author, 'The Fog of Peace: How to Prevent War', I.B. Tauris, 2016.[42]
  • 'Let’s try to understand North Korea’s actions: it sees the world as its enemy', The Guardian, July 2017.[43]
  • 'What does North Korea want?', OpenDemocracy, August 2017.[44]
  • 'Job creation would solve one problem with the UK's burgeoning military-industrial complex', OpenDemocracy, November 2017.[45]
  • 'Democratic Allies Debate: The House Believes Democracies Should Never Ally With Authoritarian Regimes, Oxford Union, January 2018.[46]
  • ‘When Empathy Fails: Managing Radical Differences’, Encounters of Interfaith Dialogue, January 2018.[47]
  • 'Gaza regeneration: we all need dreams for the future', OpenDemocracy, June 2018.[48]
  • 'Radio 4: The Middle East Conundrum', July 2018.[49]
  • 'National Dialogue: Post-Brexit, We Need a UK-Wide Coming Together', OpenDemocracy, January 2019.[50]
  • 'Afghanistan's Fragile Future Shows the Paradoxical Nature of Peacemaking', Prospect, February 2019.[51]
  • 'Radio 3: Being Diplomatic', April 2019.[52]
  • 'Preparing the Psychological Space for Peacemaking', co-author, The New England Journal of Public Policy, May 2019.[53]
  • 'Ancient Hospitality', co-author, New Humanist, July 2019.[54]
  • 'Crossing Divides', co-author, BBC, September 2019.[55]
  • 'Radio 4: Across the Red Line (series 1-4)', 2018 and 2019 [56]
  • 'We Need a Path Towards Reconciliation for Labour and British Jews', The Times, December 2019 [57]
  • 'The Deal of the Century: any chance of an honest broker?', Open Democracy, March 2020 [58]
  • 'We Need to Develop Our Empathy Muscles in These Troubled Times', Open Democracy, April 2020 [59]
  • 'Ask Gabrielle: Living Through COVID-19', This Much I Know Podcast, June 2020 [60]
  • 'How Extremists Think', The Parlia Podcast, July 2020 [61]

Notes
  1. http://www.oxfordprocess.com/
  2. "Gabrielle Rifkind". Oxford Research Group. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  3. Rifkind, Gabrielle (26 February 2010). "A route to resolution for Syria and Israel". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  4. Rifkind, Gabrielle (28 September 2010). "Solving the West Bank settler problem". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  5. Rifkind, Gabrielle (16 July 2006). "No matter what Israel and Hamas do to each other, the solution won't be rational". The Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  6. Rifkind, Gabrielle (13 February 2007). "Want to ease tensions with Iran? Just try talking". The Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  7. Rifkind, Gabrielle (28 October 2007). "This dialogue of the deaf is making war more likely". The Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  8. Rifkind, Gabrielle (25 January 2009). "The man to sell peace to the Middle East". The Independent. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  9. "Although Hamas won the elections yesterday, should we now negotiate with a terrorist organisation?". BBC 4 Today. 27 January 2006. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  10. Gabrielle Rifkind; Scilla Elworthy. "Hamas: Time to Talk". All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues (APPGCI). Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  11. "Iran, the West, and the Region (March 11‐12, 2007)" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  12. "The Fog of Peace".
  13. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychology-Political-Extremism-Gabrielle-Rifkind/dp/1782206639
  14. "Psychotherapy and Politics International - Volume 2, Issue 2 - June 2004 - Wiley Online Library". Psychotherapy and Politics International. 2 (2). 2004. doi:10.1002/ppi.v2:2.
  15. "Making Terrorism History". www.randomhouse.co.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  16. "Separating aspirations from realities". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  17. "Gabrielle Rifkind: No matter what Israel and Hamas do to each other, the solution won't be rational". Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  18. "What lies beneath the rhetoric". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  19. "Gabrielle Rifkind Iran - Google Search". www.google.co.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  20. "From crisis to opportunity". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  21. "Gabrielle Rifkind: This dialogue of the deaf is making war more likely". Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  22. "Therapy Today - The Online Magazine for Counsellors and Psychotherapists". www.therapytoday.net. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  23. "News & Publications | Oxford Research Group". www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  24. "Gabrielle Rifkind: The man to sell peace to the Middle East". Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  25. "A route to resolution for Syria and Israel | Gabrielle Rifkind". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  26. "Pariahs to Pioneers: Report on the Israeli Settler Movement | Oxford Research Group". www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  27. "Solving the West Bank settler problem | Gabrielle Rifkind". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  28. "Iran nuclear talks: signs of cautious optimism emerge | Gabrielle Rifkind". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  29. Picco, Giandomenico; Rifkind, Gabrielle. "To help Syria, talk first to Iran and Saudi Arabia". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  30. "A New Levant: a possible way through in the Syrian crisis". openDemocracy. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  31. "One signature by Assad could help to avert the bombing | The Times". The Times. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  32. "One signature by Assad could help to avert the bombing". The Times. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  33. "Our war-torn world needs a new mediating body to resolve conflicts | Gabrielle Rifkind". the Guardian. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  34. "The fog of war: it is hard to think about peace". openDemocracy. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  35. "The new great regional game: Saudi Arabia and Iran". openDemocracy. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  36. "Alternatives to military intervention: a commando team of mediators". openDemocracy. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  37. "Britain needn't withdraw from the world stage, but we need a vision". Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  38. "We need to defeat Islamic State – but how?". openDemocracy. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  39. "Chilcot tells us what we already knew – how do we implement?". openDemocracy. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  40. www.thejc.com https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/we-need-emotional-and-political-intelligence-in-politics-1.61100. Retrieved 22 December 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  41. "Chilcot: all peaceful options were not exhausted". openDemocracy. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  42. "The Book". The Fog of Peace. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  43. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/31/fear-north-korea-us-diplomatic-ballistic-tests
  44. https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/gabrielle-rifkind
  45. https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/gabrielle-rifkind/job-creation-solve-one-problem-uk-defence-military-industrial-bae-systems
  46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMV6TttsvXM
  47. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aa7acb15cfd793ea13e6a74/t/5b7bee05562fa704995b3b76/1534848558447/Full+book+with+cover+watermarked-min+%281%29.pdf
  48. https://www.opendemocracy.net/north-africa-west-asia/gabrielle-rifkind/gaza-regeneration-we-all-need-dreams-for-future
  49. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b86z4v
  50. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/post-brexit-we-need-uk-wide-dialogue
  51. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/other/afghanistan-america-trump-taliban-khalilzad-peacebuilding-facebook
  52. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003svr
  53. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol31/iss1/7/
  54. https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5481/ancient-hospitality
  55. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49648119
  56. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09m2bj1
  57. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-need-a-path-towards-reconciliation-for-labour-and-british-jews-97s5t6zkj/
  58. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/deal-century-any-chance-honest-broker/
  59. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/we-need-develop-our-empathy-muscles-these-troubled-times/
  60. https://www.thismuchiknow.news/tmik-podcast-ask-gabrielle/
  61. https://shows.acast.com/the-parlia-podcast/episodes/how-extremists-think/

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