Writing conciliations and reconciliations, failure and stubbornness of mediations in conflict zones

Abstract

What is a draft ? What is a failure ? What is a comeback ? What is rewriting a thousand times ? What is the stubbornness and will to surpass to which writing subjects the writer ? Based on attempts to reach diplomatic agreements in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, understand how it is compulsory to return to the text, since there is no other alternative. How words become spaces for negotiation, power relations and encounters. How writing is condemned to reconciliation despite all impossibilities.

Abstract of Nasser Al-Kidwa's speech

Olmert-Al Kidwa Joint Proposal

Presenting the Joint Proposal aimed at peacefully solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Nasser Al-Kidwa

• Prominent member of Fatah as well as member of the Palestinian National Council (PNC).
• Served as the PLO / Palestine Observer to the United Nations in New York from 1991 to 2004.
• Played a key role bringing Palestine's case against Israel's Wall to the International Court of Justice in 2003-2004.
• In 2005, became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority. In 2012, appointed as Deputy Special Envoy of the UN-LAS Joint Special Mission for Syria under the leadership of Kofi Annan. Also served in 2014-2015 as the League of Arab States Special Envoy to Libya.
• In 2021, founded the National Democratic Assembly and headed the "Freedom" list for the Palestinian elections that were arbitrarily canceled. Both the creation of the NDA and of the "Freedom" list led to an illegal expulsion from the Fatah Central Committee and a removal as Head of the Yasser Arafat Foundation.
• In 2024, conclusion of a Joint Proposal with the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, for a political solution.
• Born in Gaza in 1953, graduated as a dentist from Cairo University, Faculty of Medicine. Presently member of the Board of the International Crisis Group.