�This well-informed and nuanced analysis offers one of the most incisive treatments of the Israel/Palestine conflict available. Among books in the field, there is really nothing quite like it.�Alan Dowty, University of Notre Dame �When Conflict Resolution Fails extends Ramsbotham�s groundbreaking work on �radical disagreement�. Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as its main case, it describes a form of �extended conflict resolution�, built around ideas and practices of �strategic engagement�, that challenges our understanding of the role of third parties and proposes what may be, ethically, the outer limits of conflict resolution itself. An important and necessarily sobering book.�Kevin Avruch, George Mason University