Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley Had Mandela been the Palestinian leader, the Middle East conflict would have long been resolved, US policymakers assert. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley question such personalized magic in the absence of other South African preconditions for a negotiated settlement. What can be learned from South Africa's negotiated revolution for peacemaking in divided societies? Could a Truth Commission serve reconciliation in the Middle East? Is a South African-type common society feasible, inevitable, or preferable to a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine? Heribert Adams is a political sociologist at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and also teaches at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on comparative ethnic conflicts and peacemaking, particularly socio-political developments is South Africa. He was awarded the 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Kogila Moodley is a sociologist at the University of British Columbia and was the first holder of the David Lam Chair. Raised in the Indian community of apartheid South Africa, her research is focused on critical multiculturalism, anti-racism education, and citizenship. She has served as President of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations (1998-2002). Adam and Moodely live in Vancouver and Cape Town.