Andrew Rigby

Andrew Rigby is Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies (Coventry University) with a life-long interest in nonviolent means of resistance and change.

Thank you Trump, for legitimising debate about a ‘one-state solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

After decades of a failed peace process, the US president’s comments, breaking US orthodoxy on the ‘two-state solution’, may inadvertently have planted a seed of hope for the future.

By Andrew Rigby

/ 22 Feb 2017

No peace and quiet for Israel until the occupation ends

Palestinian activists are faced with knowing that their unarmed resistance, whilst it has attracted international civil society support, has failed to exercise any leverage over Israel.

By Andrew Rigby

/ 6 Dec 2015