Reshaping the Middle East: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace
Wed 11 Mar
|The Conduit
Robert Malley joins us for a timely and unflinching conversation on Israel–Palestine and the widening regional confrontation, reflecting on the hopes of the Oslo years, the escalation from Gaza to Iran, and the enduring delusions that have shaped policy across the region and beyond.
Time & Location
11 Mar 2026, 18:15 – 19:30 GMT
The Conduit, 6 Langley St, London WC2H 9JA, UK
About the event
A former senior US diplomat and President and CEO of the International Crisis Group, Robert Malley draws on decades of experience advising US presidents and working closely with Palestinian leaders. The discussion offers a clear-eyed reassessment of why the two-state solution became a global objective only once it was no longer politically viable; why US officials favoured technical schemes over a frank reckoning with the past; why Hamas’s onslaught and Israel’s war of destruction are not historical exceptions but historical reenactments; and why the gaps separating Israelis and Palestinians have less to do with territorial allocation than with history and emotion.
The conversation asks whether international diplomacy can move beyond managing violence and humanitarian fallout, and confront the deeper political, historical and moral questions that have long been deferred.
Robert Malley is a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is the co-author, with…
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