Ambassador Dennis Ross:
Missing Peace in the Middle East
May 7, 2003
Bowker Auditorium
UMass Amherst
Ambassador Dennis Ross was the United States’ chief envoy in the Middle East for 12 years. He was intimately involved in many of the leading Middle East peace accords signed during the 1990s, including the 1995 "interim agreement"
(of the Oslo accord), the Hebron accord of 1997, and the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, as well as the failed Camp David summit of 2000 (with Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak).
Ross was director of Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration, director for policy planning in the State Department under President George Bush, Sr. and special Middle East envoy under President Bill Clinton. At the time of his lecture, Ross was director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard's JFK School of Government.
Detailed biography
This lecture, the first Robert and Pamela Jacobs Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Life & Culture, was jointly sponsored by the Department of Judaic & Near Eastern Studies, the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the Office of Jewish Affairs.
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
