A Collaborative Development Zone
for Israelis and Palestinians,
Scholarly Edition (October, 2007)

William J. Hartnett

revised text and presentation, in color

136 pages, 115 footnotes, numerous figures

includes the technical report 'Modeling Confrontation'

The historical stalemate is analyzed with a model of the confrontation, offered to help understand the past and begin to lay the groundwork for a new direction. The main text first discusses the underlying situation and then develops the policy proposal - a collaborative development zone based on a portfolio endowment policy developed at MIT. The collaborative development zone, or 'Green Belt', includes a necklace of enterprise parks centered along the Green Line. The portfolio endowment policy endows each Palestinian and Israeli with a financial instrument composed of a portfolio of Green Belt enterprises. The opportunities here include agriculture, branding, consultancies, cultural marketables, education, finance, health, international institutes, tourism, and utilities.

The genuine collaboration implicit in this proposal goes hand in hand with a reversal in polarity of the relationship between the two peoples. This would remove what is probably the biggest roadblock to genuine improvement in the quality of life for Israelis and Palestinians, where quality of life is taken to include the protection of core values and the enjoyment of both stable security and egalitarian economic development. With authentic leadership this policy proposal is a realistic choice for the two peoples, advancing self-determination and sustainable development.

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A Collaborative Development Zone (CDZ) for Israelis and Palestinians
Scholarly Edition (2007)

A Collaborative Development Zone (CDZ) for Israelis and Palestinians
Popular Edition (2007)
(81pp, 81 footnotes, without Technical Report 'Modeling Confrontation')

Excerpts available from MIT CopyTech and National University of Ireland SSRC