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LANCASTER
INTERCHURCH PEACE WITNESS
Fall Peace Forum: "A Time To Lead – the International Community and
the Middle East"
OCT. 26, 3:00 PM –
5:00 PM
The Barshinger
Center • Franklin and Marshall College • Lancaster, PA
 This
year's Fall Peace Forum, hosted by the Center for Liberal Arts &
Society of Franklin & Marshall College, will feature Daniel Levy, a
Senior Fellow at the New America and The Century Foundations in
Washington, DC. Levy directs their respective Middle East Peace policy
initiatives. He formerly worked as an adviser in Israeli Prime
Minister Barak's office and as an official negotiator and as lead
Israeli drafter of the informal Geneva Initiative peace plan.
(Please note: Levy's appearance is confirmed pending urgent
assignments in the current Middle East peace process.)
Levy was the
Director of Policy and International Efforts at Heskem, the Israeli
headquarters of the joint non-governmental Israeli-Palestinian Geneva
Initiative. Levy led the working-level Israeli negotiating team for
over two years, and was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Accord.
Levy previously
served as senior policy adviser to former Israeli Minister of Justice,
Yossi Beilin, from March 2000 to March 2001. In this capacity, he was
responsible for coordinating policy on various aspects of the
ministerial portfolio, including issues related to peace negotiations,
the Palestinian minority in Israel, civil and human rights,
representing the minister on governmental committees.
During the Ehud
Barak government, he worked in the Prime Minister's Office as special
adviser and head of the Jerusalem Affairs unit under Minister Haim
Ramon.
Levy was a member of
the Israeli delegation to the Taba Summit with the Palestinians in
January 2001, and of the negotiating team for the "Oslo 2" Agreement
from May to September 1995, under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In 2003 Levy worked
as an analyst for the International Crisis Group Middle East Program,
during which time he authored reports, including "A Time To Lead – the
International Community and the Middle East", "Middle East Endgame –
How a Comprehensive Peace Settlement Would Look", "A Middle East
Roadmap to Where?", and "Identity Crisis: Israel and its Arab
Citizens". He also worked for three years as projects director for the
Economic Cooperation Foundation, a Tel Aviv based policy 'think-tank
and do-tank' whose mission is to promote regional peace and stability
in the Middle East.
He served his
compulsory army service as an NCO in the Liaison Office with the
United Nations Forces based in the region and in the office of the
Deputy Coordinator of Government Activities in the territories.
A graduate of King's
College, Cambridge, Levy was the Anti-Racism Officer of Cambridge
University Students Union from 1989 to 1990. Between 1991 and 1994,
Daniel Levy was Chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students.
He occasionally
writes opinion pieces for Ha'aretz. |
