Gilead Sher
Attorney Gilead Sher was chief of staff and policy coordinator to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a senior negotiator at the Camp David summit and Taba talks, and a delegate to the 1994–95 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement negotiations under PM Rabin. He heads the Center for Applied Negotiations and is a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies INSS. Recently a visiting professor and Israel studies fellow at Georgetown University, Sher is currently the Brochstein fellow in Middle East peace and security at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. A senior partner at the law firm Gilead Sher & Co., he serves on several corporate executive boards and public councils. Sher is an IDF Colonel who served in reserve service as a brigade commander and a deputy division commander. He was a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School and a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Sher is the author of The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001: Within Reach (2001), The Battle for Home (2016) and coeditor of Negotiating in Times of Conflict(2015) and Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers in Arab-Israeli Negotiations (2019).
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the traditional media landscape. Social media introduced a whole new
participatory component, and an unprecedented ability to disseminate
information and connect an immense user base. At the same time, social media features that provide this exceptional ability to reach new audiences bring with them detrimental side effects.1 As with many discoveries and innovations, social media’s meteoric development preceded society’s ability to fully comprehend, and appropriately manage, the ways in which it impacts on communities.
Both Israel and the Palestinian territories are home to prolific social
media use by individuals, organizations, and governments. This article
examines the role social media plays in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and specifically its use by organizations interested in promoting peace.
Books by Gilead Sher
Our book Negotiating in Times of Conflict is out.
Free download at: http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10549. Available shortly as a printed book.
the traditional media landscape. Social media introduced a whole new
participatory component, and an unprecedented ability to disseminate
information and connect an immense user base. At the same time, social media features that provide this exceptional ability to reach new audiences bring with them detrimental side effects.1 As with many discoveries and innovations, social media’s meteoric development preceded society’s ability to fully comprehend, and appropriately manage, the ways in which it impacts on communities.
Both Israel and the Palestinian territories are home to prolific social
media use by individuals, organizations, and governments. This article
examines the role social media plays in the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and specifically its use by organizations interested in promoting peace.
Our book Negotiating in Times of Conflict is out.
Free download at: http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=10549. Available shortly as a printed book.