Gabrielle Rifkind
Gabrielle Rifkind is a British mediator who has specialised in international conflict resolution working through non-governmental organisations, (NGOs) in the Middle East and United Kingdom. She is the Director of "Oxford Process". She is known as a commentator on international peacemaking and related themes and author of several titles. Her work considers the role of human relationships in managing parties with "radical disagreements" with the goal of establishing areas of potential mutual self-interest. Early life. Rifkind is a graduate of Manchester University and Edinburgh University. After working for the Probation Service, she trained at the Institute  of Group Analysis and became a group analyst and a psychotherapist. Later career. Rifkind joined the Oxford Research Group in the late 1990s to explore peacemaking in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. She became head of the Israel/Palestine programme. She next turned her attention to Iran and the wider Middle East. In 2016 she founded "Oxford Process", which works in conflict situations to build relationships with conflicted parties to identify opportunities to reduce tensions or prevent further escalation of violence. Rifkind has frequently appeared on broadcast media in the UK has given public lectures on peacemaking and contributed to a  colloquium at Princeton University and has twice debated at the Oxford Union. She has been one of the conflict mediators for four series of BBC Radio 4's "Across the Red Line" presented by British political journalist, Anne McElvoy. She is the co-author, with peace activist Scilla Elworthy of "Making Terrorism History" (2005) and, with former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco, of "The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution", and author of "The Psychology of Political Extremism: What would Sigmund Freud have thought about Islamic State". Publications. Articles. Her contributions to journals include: