Conference on Middle East fundamentalism and terrorism,the carnegie endowment for international peace,April 21, 1988

Abstract

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D. C. was the site of a conference on Middle East Fundamentalism and Terrorism held 21 and 22 April 1988. The conference was cosponsored by the School of International Affairs of The George Washington University, the Center for International Development and Conflict Management of the University of Maryland, the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation of the Anti‐Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Anti‐Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism of the State University of New York.

Experts from around the country and the world tried to deal with the problem of Middle Eastern fundamentalism and various connections to international terrorism. A series of six panels of academic and nonacademic experts confronted several perspectives in terms of the Arab and non‐Arab Middle East and global and regional perspectives, as well as fundamentalism and the peace process in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. The final conference panel dealt with governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental responses to the problem.

The following papers were selected as representative of various views on the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective. Special thanks are due to the cosponsors and to Prof. Ferdinand Ermlich of SUNY's Institute of Studies in International Terrorism, who served as Rappateur.