Dialectic Between Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution

The rapid transition from an attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Camp David conference (July 2000) and in the Taba talks (January 2001) to renewed large-scale violence (from the end of September 2000) raised doubts about the possibility that the conflict could be resolved in the near future. The failure to resolve the conflict prompted researchers and policymakers to theorize that time was not yet ripe for a solution and that the only option is therefore to manage it—or, more precisely, to manage the violent confrontation that the conflict spawned in the past few years.1