Later career
Rifkind joined the Oxford Research Group in the late 1990s to explore peacemaking in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. [10] She became head of the Israel/Palestine programme. She next turned her attention to Iran and the wider Middle East. [11]
In 2016 she founded Oxford Process, which works in conflict situations to build relationships with conflicted parties to identify opportunities to reduce tensions or prevent further escalation of violence. [12] Rifkind's theory of conflict resolution focuses on the non-violent management of radical differences between groups, rather than searching for an elusive common ground. [13] Her work is currently focused on the Middle East and the war between Russia and Ukraine. [14]
Rifkind has frequently appeared on broadcast media in the UK has given public lectures on peacemaking and contributed to a colloquium at Princeton University and has twice debated at the Oxford Union. [15] [16] She has been one of the conflict mediators for four series of BBC Radio 4's "Across the Red Line" presented by British political journalist, Anne McElvoy. [17] Rifkind is a featured speaker at the upcoming TED2024 conference in Vancouver. [18]
She is the co-author, with peace activist Scilla Elworthy of Making Terrorism History (2005) [19] and, with former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco, of The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution, [20] and author of The Psychology of Political Extremism: What would Sigmund Freud have thought about Islamic State. [21]
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