Transitional Justice in Israel-Palestine: Lessons from Colombia

One of the most prominent sticking points in Israeli–Palestinian negotiations is the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Yoav Kapshuk investigates how the concept of ‘transitional justice’, often used in post-conflict political bargaining, could be utilised in future peace talks to reach a settlement. In addition to analysing previous rounds of negotiations that sought to resolve the refugee issue, he also looks to the negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC (which successfully concluded with a peace agreement in 2016) and asks what lessons can be learned from the transitional justice measures used in this process. Recorded on 28 February 2019. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yoav Kapshuk is Lecturer at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, and a former Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. His research focuses on peace processes, transitional justice, conflict resolution and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ian Black (@ian_black) is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Middle East Centre and a former Middle East editor, diplomatic editor and European editor for the Guardian newspaper. Image: Bill Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat at the White House 1993-09-13. Source: Wikimedia Commons.