Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is a group analyst, a specialist in conflict resolution, and an accredited mediator who works behind the scenes to ripen the conditions for peace-making in conflict. Her current focus is on the Ukraine-Russia and Palestine-Israel wars. Rifkind founded Oxford Process, an independent mediation organization working with groups in armed conflict to identify opportunities to prevent escalation, reduce tension, and create pathways to peace. Rifkind is an accomplished public communicator and has showcased her innovative methods for conflict resolution through public lectures on peacemaking and a debate at the Oxford Union. She is also one of two conflict mediators regularly featured on BBC Radio 4’s Across the Red Line. Rifkind has written for numerous journals and newspapers, including the New England Journal of Public Policy, The Times, The Guardian, and The Independent. She is the author of “The Psychology of Political Extremism”, and co-author, with peace activist Scilla Elworthy, of” Making Terrorism History” and, with former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco, of “The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution.” Rifkind is currently working on her fourth book for a more popular audience, “How to Agree to Disagree: From Conflict to Communication in Everyday Life.”