Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. His many books include Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

• ContentsPrefaceMap of the Middle East1. Building Legitimacy through NarrativeRobert I. Rotberg2. Israeli–Jewish Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and ConsequencesDaniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon3. Forging Zionist Identity Prior to 1948—Against Which Counter-Identity?Dina Porat4. The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 WarSaleh Abdel Jawad5. Zionism's Encounter with the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Force, Fear, and ExtremismNadim N. Rouhana6. Conflicting Narratives or Narratives of a Conflict: Can the Zionist and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War Be Bridged?Mordechai Bar-On7. Narratives and Myths about Arab Intransigence toward IsraelMark Tessler8. The Bridging Narrative ConceptIlan Pappe9. The Psychology of Better Dialogue between Two Separate but Interdependent NarrativesDan Bar-On and Sami Adwan10. Contesting National Identity in Palestinian EducationNathan J. Brown11. The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in HistoryEyal NavehList of ContributorsIndex

". . . an in-depth study of the Arab-Israeli conflict."—Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Aligarh Muslim University, India, Muslim World Book Review, 29.3 2009"For about 20 years, I have been teaching a course at Brandeis University called The Sociology of the Israeli–Palestinian Confrontation. As I began moving toward seeing conflicting narratives as a central issue, I looked for a book that would present the narratives issue clearly, directly, and compellingly. My search is over. The book is Robert Rotberg's edited collection that discusses the role of narratives in establishing legitimacy claims, presents varied Israeli and Palestinian narratives, and considers whether these narratives are reconcilable. Rotberg takes no stand on this final issue. He simply offers many views of it."—Society". . . [The book's] main contribution is to see the tension as historically produced and contingent, revealling the dynamic interplay between narratives of hegemony and resistence. The key issue is what and who is acknowledged or denied, and how stories are told and re-told, reified and contested, a problem which is at the heart of violence in the Middle East and North Africa."—Human Rights and Human Welfare". . . Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict presents a number of useful and pertinent perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian remembrances of the past. Sept. 2009"—Marwan Hanania, H-Levant

Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. His many books include Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

• ContentsPrefaceMap of the Middle East1. Building Legitimacy through NarrativeRobert I. Rotberg2. Israeli–Jewish Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and ConsequencesDaniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon3. Forging Zionist Identity Prior to 1948—Against Which Counter-Identity?Dina Porat4. The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 WarSaleh Abdel Jawad5. Zionism's Encounter with the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Force, Fear, and ExtremismNadim N. Rouhana6. Conflicting Narratives or Narratives of a Conflict: Can the Zionist and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War Be Bridged?Mordechai Bar-On7. Narratives and Myths about Arab Intransigence toward IsraelMark Tessler8. The Bridging Narrative ConceptIlan Pappe9. The Psychology of Better Dialogue between Two Separate but Interdependent NarrativesDan Bar-On and Sami Adwan10. Contesting National Identity in Palestinian EducationNathan J. Brown11. The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in HistoryEyal NavehList of ContributorsIndex

". . . an in-depth study of the Arab-Israeli conflict."—Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Aligarh Muslim University, India, Muslim World Book Review, 29.3 2009"For about 20 years, I have been teaching a course at Brandeis University called The Sociology of the Israeli–Palestinian Confrontation. As I began moving toward seeing conflicting narratives as a central issue, I looked for a book that would present the narratives issue clearly, directly, and compellingly. My search is over. The book is Robert Rotberg's edited collection that discusses the role of narratives in establishing legitimacy claims, presents varied Israeli and Palestinian narratives, and considers whether these narratives are reconcilable. Rotberg takes no stand on this final issue. He simply offers many views of it."—Society". . . [The book's] main contribution is to see the tension as historically produced and contingent, revealling the dynamic interplay between narratives of hegemony and resistence. The key issue is what and who is acknowledged or denied, and how stories are told and re-told, reified and contested, a problem which is at the heart of violence in the Middle East and North Africa."—Human Rights and Human Welfare". . . Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict presents a number of useful and pertinent perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian remembrances of the past. Sept. 2009"—Marwan Hanania, H-Levant

Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is also President of the World Peace Foundation. His many books include Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa and When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

• ContentsPrefaceMap of the Middle East1. Building Legitimacy through NarrativeRobert I. Rotberg2. Israeli–Jewish Narratives of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: Evolution, Contents, Functions, and ConsequencesDaniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon3. Forging Zionist Identity Prior to 1948—Against Which Counter-Identity?Dina Porat4. The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 WarSaleh Abdel Jawad5. Zionism's Encounter with the Palestinians: The Dynamics of Force, Fear, and ExtremismNadim N. Rouhana6. Conflicting Narratives or Narratives of a Conflict: Can the Zionist and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War Be Bridged?Mordechai Bar-On7. Narratives and Myths about Arab Intransigence toward IsraelMark Tessler8. The Bridging Narrative ConceptIlan Pappe9. The Psychology of Better Dialogue between Two Separate but Interdependent NarrativesDan Bar-On and Sami Adwan10. Contesting National Identity in Palestinian EducationNathan J. Brown11. The Dynamics of Identity Construction in Israel through Education in HistoryEyal NavehList of ContributorsIndex

". . . an in-depth study of the Arab-Israeli conflict."—Abdur Raheem Kidwai, Aligarh Muslim University, India, Muslim World Book Review, 29.3 2009"For about 20 years, I have been teaching a course at Brandeis University called The Sociology of the Israeli–Palestinian Confrontation. As I began moving toward seeing conflicting narratives as a central issue, I looked for a book that would present the narratives issue clearly, directly, and compellingly. My search is over. The book is Robert Rotberg's edited collection that discusses the role of narratives in establishing legitimacy claims, presents varied Israeli and Palestinian narratives, and considers whether these narratives are reconcilable. Rotberg takes no stand on this final issue. He simply offers many views of it."—Society". . . [The book's] main contribution is to see the tension as historically produced and contingent, revealling the dynamic interplay between narratives of hegemony and resistence. The key issue is what and who is acknowledged or denied, and how stories are told and re-told, reified and contested, a problem which is at the heart of violence in the Middle East and North Africa."—Human Rights and Human Welfare". . . Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict presents a number of useful and pertinent perspectives on Israeli and Palestinian remembrances of the past. Sept. 2009"—Marwan Hanania, H-Levant