Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Arab-Jewish Partnerships (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984505692)

Over the course of his long lifetime, Landrum Bolling has gained exceptional experience in international conflict resolution and in facilitating dialogue between members of different religions, cultures and ethnicities. His deep Quaker faith has shaped his life and work for peace and justice around the world. Trained as a political scientist at the University of Tennessee and the University of Chicago, Bolling served on the faculties of Beloit College, Brown University and Earlham College, where he was president for 15 years. He also served as president of the Lilly Endowment, one of the largest grant-making foundations in the world, and as chief executive officer of the Council on Foundations. Bolling was an Adjunct Professor in the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Bolling began his career in journalism, as a war correspondent in Europe during World War II, and has since written, co-authored, and edited numerous volumes. Bolling's first book, Search for Peace in the Middle East, published by the American Friends Service Committee in 1970, initiated his lifelong quest to help bring about peace in the Holy Land between Israelis and Palestinians. In pursuit of this goal Bolling personally worked with many of the political and social leaders in the Middle East, met in the White House with President Nixon, and served as an unofficial interlocutor between President Carter and Yasser Arafat. Bolling has worked extensively with Mercy Corps, an international humanitarian agency, as director-at-large and as a senior advisor since the 1980s. For three years Bolling was stationed in Sarajevo as the Mercy Corps representative in the Balkans. From 1983-88, he was the president and rector at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He is also a senior advisor and board member of the Conflict Management Group in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C. In recognition of his lifetime of work on behalf of international conflict resolution, Bolling has received more than thirty honorary doctorates from US and foreign universities.