Model Negotiations

Camp David III participants will be negotiating their own path to Israeli–Palestinian peace, which includes elements drawn from UN Security Council Resolution 242 and the 2002 Arab League Peace Initiative. Students will be divided into delegations representing Israel, the Palestinians, the United States, the Arab states (Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia), the European Union, and the UN. You will work in different committees to negotiate issues such as stopping Israeli settlement expansion, prisoner exchanges, preventing Hamas from smuggling weapons, ending incitement to violence, and opening the Israel–Gaza border, as well as the final status issues: refugees, Jerusalem, security and the borders of a Palestinian state.

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Embassy Visits, Speakers and more

You will visit the embassies of Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Palestinian Mission to the United States. You will interact directly with top diplomats and with officials from the State Department’s Office of Israel–Palestinian Affairs, the conservative pro–Israel lobby AIPAC, the American Task Force on Palestine, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Americans for Peace Now. (Embassy visits subject to confirmation.)

Seminar Extras

A five-course dinner at Marrakesh, Washington, D.C.’s most famous Middle Eastern restaurant, for all first week and two week participants and a reception at the National
Press Club for all second week and two week participants.