Shelley Neese
Managing Editor for The Jerusalem Connection
Shelley Neese is currently the managing editor for “The Jerusalem Connection,” a pro-Israel Christian publication that is committed to informing, educating, and activating Jews and Christians for Israel. She writes a regular political column for The Jerusalem Connection, and her articles have also appeared in The Jerusalem Post, Arutz Sheva (Israel National News), and FrontPage Magazine. While living in Boston in the year previous, she had been the assistant to the Consul General at the Consulate of Israel to New England. In addition, Ms. Neese worked as a consultant at Conflict Management Group, a NGO connected to Harvard Law School, for their Middle East program portfolio.
In Israel, she worked as the operations officer for a network of high-profile Israeli and Palestinian negotiators with the goal of affecting the Israeli-Palestinian negotiation process through the development and dissemination of interest-based negotiation tools and methodologies. She spent the months leading up to the Gaza disengagement in Israel, working with a team of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in developing a widely distributed status report summarizing and analyzing the policy papers and research work undertaken by a myriad of organizations on issues relating to the "day after" Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.
Ms. Neese studied in Beer Sheva, Israel from 2000 -2003, where she received her M.A in Middle Eastern Studies and completed her thesis on "Multiparty Mediation in Crisis Contexts: A Case Study of the Church of the Nativity Negotiations." A native of Louisiana, she received her B.A. in Political Science from Louisiana State University and interned at the Louisiana State Capital. Currently, she resides in Charlottesville, VA with her husband and son.
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Topics:
- Christian Zionism
- Judeo-Christian History
- Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
- Crisis at the Church of Nativity in April 2002
- Gaza Disengagement and the "Day after" scenario
- Israeli advocacy in communities
- US-Israel relations
- US role as primary mediator
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