The Endless Quest for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

In this book a former United Nations Envoy offers an insider perspective on conflict management and peace efforts during the three most recent failed peace initiatives and three wars in Gaza. Robert Serry shares his reflections on walking the tight rope of diplomacy between Israel and Palestine and his analysis of what has gone wrong and why a “one-state reality” may be around the corner. Offering fresh thinking on how to preserve prospects for a two-state solution, this book examines the UN’s uneasy history in the Arab-Israeli conflict since partition was proposed in resolution 181 (1948) and provides a rare insight into the life of a United Nations Envoy in today’s Middle East.

Robert Serry is a Dutch diplomat who served as the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Personal Representative to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority from 2008 to 2015. He was the Dutch ambassador to Ireland, served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Crisis Management and Operations at NATO and was the first Dutch ambassador to Ukraine. He is the author of Standplaats Kiev.d provides a rare insight into the life of a United Nations Envoy in today’s Middle East.