What is the Citizen Negotiation Platform and how does it work?
The Citizen Negotiation Platform was created by a broad panel of religious, community, and political leaders with experience in this field, including Israelis, Palestinians, and others. They came together and broke the conflict down into its ten most seemingly intractable areas of dispute – see below – and posed potential resolutions to these areas. Israelis and Palestinians were then asked – through several rounds of voting – to voice their opinions on these resolutions through an innovative weighted voting system. Where there was no consensus between Israelis and Palestinians, the council of experts was asked to come up with new solutions, based on feedback from the voters. Thus a negotiation system was created to engage citizens on both sides and build a popular mandate for peace. Throughout the rounds of voting, consensus was found on each of the ten major issues at the heart of the conflict. 76% of Israelis and Palestinians – the same percentage on each side – were found to suppor
