Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of Oxford Process.

She is a group analyst, specialist in conflict resolution and an accredited mediator. Gabrielle combines in-depth political and psychological expertise with many years’ experience in promoting serious analysis and dialogue. Her focus of work over the past two decades has been the Iran nuclear issue, the proxy wars in Syria and the Palestine-Israel conflict. More recently she has been working on the Ukraine/ Russia conflict on keeping lines of communication open between the warring parties. Believing passionately in preventive diplomacy ( as once people go to war it is difficult to resolve conflict) she has initiated a new project on how to prevent war in Taiwan. 

An energetic woman, Gabrielle is an author and frequent contributor to the media, with over 50 publications nearly always from a conflict resolution perspective.  She has written for various newspapers, online publications and academic journals, including; The Guardian, The Times, Prospect, The Independent, Open Democracy and the New England Journal of Public Policy and is the co-author  with Gianni Picco of  Fog of Peace: how to prevent war. Bloomsbury 2016.  In her latest article in Prospect Magazine, Gabrielle Rifkind argues that we need to get behind public rhetoric and aggression to talk peace. More information about Gabrielle is available at www.gabriellerifkind.co.uk.

 
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 Publications:

  • The Psychology of Political Extremism (Random House 2018)

  • The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution (I.B. Tauris 2014), co-authored with the former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco

  • Making Terrorism History (Routledge 2005)

She has been the conflict mediator for four series of BBC Radio 4’s Across the Red Line, twice debated at the Oxford Union and regularly gives public lectures.

Gabrielle appeared on the Parlia podcast to discuss How Extremists Think and explained how emotional investment affects Being Diplomatic on BBC 3.

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