Gabrielle Rifkind

Gabrielle Rifkind is the Director of Oxford Process. She is a group analyst, specialist in conflict resolution and an accredited mediator. Gabrielle combines in-depth political and psychological expertise with many years’ experience in promoting serious analysis and dialogue. Her focus of work over the past two decades has been the Iran nuclear issue, the proxy wars in Syria and the Palestine-Israel conflict. More recently she has been working on the Ukraine/Russia conflict on keeping lines of communication open between the warring parties. Believing passionately in preventive diplomacy (as once people go to war it is difficult to resolve conflict) Oxford Process has recently initiated a project on how to prevent war in Taiwan.

 An energetic woman, Gabrielle is an author and frequent contributor to the media, with over 50 publications nearly always from a conflict resolution perspective.  She has written for various newspapers, online publications and academic journals, including; The Guardian, The Times, Prospect, The Independent, Open Democracy and the New England Journal of Public Policy. She is the co-author with Gianni Picco of Fog of Peace: how to prevent war. Bloomsbury 2016.