Thirty years ago this month, the United States and the Soviet Union co-sponsored the Madrid Peace Conference, an unprecedented event that brought together all of the parties to the Arab-Israeli conflict. This conference launched Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations, as well as multilateral working groups that tackled regional issues, while also laying the groundwork for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty brokered by the Clinton administration in 1994.

American University’s School of International Service (SIS) and the Center for Israel Studies (CIS) are pleased to host a special event commemorating the Madrid Peace Conference, featuring three expert panelists with decades of experience in Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.