Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of Oxford Process, an independent preventive diplomacy initiative. She is a group analyst, specialist in conflict resolution and an accredited mediator. Gabrielle combines in-depth political and psychological expertise with many years’ experience in promoting serious analysis and dialogue. Her focus of work over the past two decades has been the Iran nuclear issue, the proxy wars in Syria, the Palestine-Israel conflict, and the Ukraine-Russia war. She has both facilitated meetings with and spent time talking to the leadership in Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel and ‘Western’ states. More recently, Oxford Process has turned its attention to conflict resolution beyond the Middle East, including a UK focus. Gabrielle is also an author and frequent contributor to the media, with over 50 publications nearly always from a conflict resolution perspective. She is the author of three books: The Psychology of Political Extremism, The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution, and Making Terrorism History. She has also written for The Guardian, The Times, Prospect, The Independent, Open Democracy, and the New England Journal of Public Policy. She has been the conflict mediator on BBC Radio 4’s Across the Red Line, twice debated at the Oxford Union and regularly gives public lectures.