Shlomo Brom
Guest Scholar, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
2005 – 2006
Middle East | Civil–Military Relations | Negotiation,
Peace Talks, Mediation
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Brigadier General (ret.) Shlomo Brom, a thirty-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, is currently a guest scholar in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at USIP, where his research will focus on Israeli national security thinking about Palestinian statehood and the future of Israel’s relations with neighboring Arab states.
He most recently served as senior research associate at the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was deputy national security adviser under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. From 1996 to 1998, Brom was director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Israel Defense Force’s General Staff. From 1988 to 1990 he was the Israeli defense attaché in the Republic of South Africa and from 1969 to 1987 he served in the Israeli Air Force, mostly in different intelligence positions. Throughout the 1990s, Brom participated in peace negotiations with Syria, Jordan, and the Palestinians. He also represented Israel in multilateral talks on Arms Control and Regional Security.
The author of numerous articles about Israeli strategic and diplomatic issues, Brom is also a member of the Council on Peace and Security, a nongovernmental advisory body that brings together leading Israeli national security and intelligence figures. In 2002–03, he was involved in the Geneva initiative, including the drafting of the security provisions.
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