Gabrielle Rifkind is a senior consultant to the Strategic Peacebuilding Programme (fomerly Middle East Programme), which she founded and directed until 2015. She is the Director of the Oxford Process, an independent preventive diplomacy initiative pioneered through her dialogue work with Oxford Research Group (ORG). She is a group analyst and specialist in conflict resolution. Gabrielle combines in-depth political and psychological expertise with many years’ experience in promoting serious analysis and dialogue. Read more »

Marzuq Halabi is the Local Coordinator of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel Group under the Middle East Programme at Oxford Research Group (ORG). He is a journalist, writer, political advisor and strategic and organisational consultant. He works with several civil society organizations and parties, such as Adalah and Dirasat. He has been a prolific contributor on the subject of Palestinians in Israel, particularly on the development of new models of partnerships between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis. Read more »

Bashir Bashir works with ORG as a consultant on its strategic thinking projects in Israel and Palestine. He is a Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, our local partner. He taught political philosophy at the LSE, Queen's University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His primary research interests are deliberative democracy, multiculturalism, the politics of reconciliation, theories of citizenship, and Palestinian nationalism. Read more »

Oliver Ramsbotham is a Consultant on Oxford Research Group's (ORG) Strategic Peacebuilding Programme (formerly Middle East Programme). He was Chair of the Board from April 2007 until July 2013.

Oliver is a specialist on conflict resolution and designed an original approach to handling 'intractable' conflict, which he calls ‘radical disagreement’. This approach both informs - and is informed by - ORG's ongoing work with the Palestinian Strategic Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum.  Read more »