Publications

Books

The Psychology of Political Extremism. Random House, 2018

The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution. I.B. Tauris, 2014. Co-authored with former senior UN diplomat Giandomenico Picco

Making Terrorism History. Routledge, 2005. Co-authored with peace activist Scilla Elworthy

Articles and op-eds

Israelis and Palestinians by Jonathan Glover: Review - the Psychology of Conflict. Guardian, January 2024

A better future can be built for Gaza. Prospect, November 2023

Letter to the Editor: Use experience of Ukraine to avoid a war with China. Financial Times, March 2023

How to talk peace while waging war: To end wars we need to get behind the public rhetoric and all its aggression. Prospect, January 2023

I’m a conflict mediator. This is a way out of the Ukraine crisis. The Guardian, February 2022

The Deal of the Century: any chance of an honest broker? Open Democracy, March 2020

We Need A Path Towards Reconciliation for Labour and British Jews. The Times, December 2019

Ancient Hospitality. New Humanist, 2019. Co-authored with John Harris

Preparing the Psychological Space for Peacemaking. New England Journal of Public Policy, May 2019. Co-authored with Nita Yawanarajah

Afghanistan’s Fragile Future Shows the Paradoxical Nature of Peacemaking. Prospect, February 2019

National Dialogue: Post-Brexit, We Need a UK-Wide Coming Together. Open Democracy, January 2019

Gaza Regeneration: We All Need Dreams for the Future. Open Democracy, June 2018

When Empathy Fails: Managing Radical Differences. Encounters of Interfaith Dialogue, January 2018

Job Creation Would Solve One Problem with the UK’s Burgeoning Military-Industrial Complex. Open Democracy, November 2017

What Does North Korea Want? Open Democracy, August 2017

Let’s Try to Understand North Korea’s Actions: It Sees the World as its Enemy. The Guardian, July 2017

Chilcot: All Peaceful Options Were Not Exhausted. Open Democracy, July 2016

We Need Emotional and Political Intelligence in Politics. Jewish Chronicle, July 2016

Chilcot Tells Us What We Already Knew - How Do We Implement? Open Democracy, July 2016

We Need to Defeat Islamic State - But How? Open Democracy, December 2015

Britain Needn’t Withdraw from the World Stage, but We Need a Vision. Independent, May 2015

Alternatives to Military Intervention: a Commando Team of Mediators. Open Security, September 2014

The New Great Regional Game: Saudi Arabia and Iran. Open Democracy, July 2014. Co-authored with Giandomenico Picco

The Fog of War: it is Hard to Think about Peace. Open Democracy, July 2014

Our War-Torn World Needs a New Mediating Body to Resolve Conflicts. The Guardian, March 2014

One Signature by Assad Could Help to Avert the Bombing. The Times, September 2013

A New Levant: a Possible Way Through in the Syrian Crisis. Open Democracy, February 2013

To Help Syria, Talk First to Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Guardian, February 2013. Co-authored with Giandomenico Picco

        Podcasts

The delicate art of managing radical differences. Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri, August 2022

How extremists think with Gabrielle Rifkind. On Opinion, July 2020

The importance of Understanding the Other in Resolving Extremism. CORE Library, January 2022.