Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is the director of the Oxford Process www.oxfordprocess.com and a specialist in conflict resolution.

The fog of war: it is hard to think about peace

A number of parties seem to have been complicit in the failure of the politics to prevent this latest round of deadly fighting in Gaza. In such a climate, one can be motivated to damage one’s enemy rather than to protect one’s own best interest.

By Gabrielle Rifkind

/ 27 Jul 2014

The new great regional game: Saudi Arabia and Iran

Decades of corrupt and authoritarian governments in the region which brutally suppressed both secular opposition and moderate Islamists have created the breeding ground for a more nihilist ideology.

By Gabrielle Rifkind and Gianni Picco

/ 7 Jul 2014

A New Levant: a possible way through in the Syrian crisis

War is not the only solution. Iranian flexibility and political creativity in Syria, and Saudi flexibility as well as political creativity in Iraq, could offer a way through.

By Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco

/ 7 Feb 2013

Intimate enemies: the inner dynamics of peace

The Oslo peace process of 1993-4 was a landmark in the Middle East conflict. Whilst it deferred decisions on borders, refugees and the future of Jerusalem until 1998, it at

By Gabrielle Rifkind

/ 27 Feb 2002