Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil Oxford, is a prolific scholar and institutional founder who held distinguished roles at Haifa, UCLA, Hull, Johns Hopkins, Lund, UCL, Jerusalem and The Woodrow Wilson Center, and taught globally. His books span politics, law and ethics, including Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side (2015), Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (2021) and Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict (2026)
If a diplomatic initiative is to succeed, it will have to meet the basic conditions of
strategic preparation, disciplined negotiation, credible implementation, and the
cultivation of trust.