PS 362U Final Exam
Please respond to one of the following questions. Responses should be double-spaced and be no 2-3 typed pages (between 10 and 12-point font, 1 inch margins). Responses should also include at least one citation and have a bibliography or reference list following Chicago Author-Date citation style. Your bibliography may appear on a fourth page if necessary. As always, be sure your essay is well organized, grammatically co
ect and has a thesis statement (ie a sentence stating what you will argue in your essay).
Because grades are due shortly after, late papers cannot be included in final grade.
1. Twenty years after the Oslo Peace Process began, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appears even farther from resolution. Palestinian and Israeli polities seem deeply divided; violence and settlement building have increased; and majorities of both publics see peace as unlikely. Why, in your opinion, has the peace process framework (in the form of Oslo, Camp David and the Roadmap for Peace) failed so dismally at achieving its stated goal: a negotiated settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians? Is more time needed or is the framework itself flawed?
2. Using the actual country of citizenship (or one of them if you are a dual citizen), what must your country do to facilitate an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? (e.g., If you are American, what must the United States do to promote an end to the conflict).
3. What single most important change—on the part of government policy or the grassroots—will do most to
ing about abiding peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? How will it do this and how would it be different from what is happening now?
4. If your perspective on the conflict has changed during the course, how has it changed and why?