WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that General Shlomo Brom, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, will serve as a guest scholar in residence starting in September 2005. As Israel now completes its disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the Northern West Bank, General Brom will look ahead toward the next phase of the peace process. His research will focus on Israeli national security thinking about Palestinian statehood and the future of Israel's relations with neighboring Arab states.

A thirty-year veteran of the Israel Defense Forces, Brom most recently served as Senior Research Associate at the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was Deputy National Security Advisor 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.

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 (ACRS). The author of numerous articles about Israeli strategic and diplomatic issues, Brom is also a member of the Council on Peace and Security, a non-governmental advisory body that brings together leading Israeli national security and intelligence figures. In 2002-2003, he was involved in the Geneva initiative, including the drafting of the security provisions.

Brom's fellowship is part of the Institute's ongoing efforts to advance peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Further information about Institute activities related to the Arab-Israeli conflict is available online. For more information about the Institute of Peace or to contact General Brom, please email the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at publicaffairs@usip.org or call (202) 429-3832.