Research Guides: Alternative Dispute Resolution Research: Camp David Accords

Introduction: Researching the Camp David Accords

In 1978, senior government leaders from Israel and Egypt met at Camp David to negotiate a framework for Middle East peace. These negotiations were brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. This section of the guide provides information about research resources for the 1978 Camp David Accords.

Camp David Accords: Internet Resources

BBC News: The Camp David Accords of 1979
Part of the BBC's Israel and the Palestinians: Key Documents in-depth report.
The Camp David Accords: Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Includes framework documents, related correspondence, and historical analysis.
PBS American Experience: Brokering Peace
This interactive web feature describes the Camp David negotiations through the eyes of the participants and discusses President Carter's role in the process.

Camp David Accords: Books

Note: Books in the law library are organized by subject. Browse the shelves near the books listed below to find related titles.

The Camp David Accords: A Collection of Articles and Lectures
Call Number: Harvard Depository DS119.8.E3 C36 2011
The Camp David Accords: A Testimony by Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library DT82.5.I7 K3513 1986
The Camp David Summit, September 1978 by U.S. Department of State
Call Number: Harvard Depository 76f 4998.9.4.4.8
From Camp David to the Gulf: Negotiations, Language & Propaganda, and War by Adel Safty
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library DS63.2.U5 S233 1992
Israel on the Road to Peace: Accepting the Unacceptable by Ziva Flamhaft
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library DS119.7 .F595 1996
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities by Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan
Call Number: Harvard Depository (Barcode # 32044112019906)
Palestine and the Camp David Accords: Commentaries by Fayez A. Sayegh and Israel Shahak
Call Number: Harvard Depository (Barcode # 32044111963930)
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land by Jimmy Carter
Call Number: Harvard Widener Library DS119.76 .C354 2009

Camp David Accords: Articles and other Documents

After Camp David: The Role of Autonomy Negotiations in Furthering Middle East Peace (Matthew C. Friedman)
Camp David - The Unfinished Business (Foreign Affairs, v. 57, p. 343 (1983))
Article by Abba Eban, a former Israeli Foreign Minister who was serving in the Israeli Knesset at the time.
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Legal Bibliography (Sanford R. Silverburg, Law Library Journal, v. 72 (1979))
This bibliography from 1978 provides a listing of historical documents and treatises that discuss and analyze the Arab-Israeli conflict. The sources listed in it can help to provide important historical perspective for the study of the Camp David Accords.
Can Outsiders Help? Lessons for Third-Party Intervention in Bosnia (W.C. Clemmens, Jr., International Journal, v. 48 (1992))
This article explores the effectiveness of third-party intervention in international conflicts, focusing primarily on the Camp David peace negotiations.
To Bring to an End the State of War: The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (J.F. Murphy, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, v. 12 (1979))
Law review article discussing the treaty, the features of the Camp David Agreements, and an assessment of the Middle East peace package.
Israel Law Review: The Peace Process (Spring-Summer 1994)
This issue of the Israel Law Review discusses the history of the Israeli-Arab peace processes up to that point, including the Camp David Accords.
Peace in the Middle East: Camp David, the Treaty, and Beyond (American Society of International Law Proceedings, v. 74 (1980))
This article outlines the proceedings of this panel, co-sponsored by ASIL and the Council of Foreign Relations.
Settlement in the Middle East: What Would it Look Like and Can We Get There From Here? (American Society of International Law Proceedings, v. 77 (1983))
This is a transcript of a roundtable discussion involving diplomats and law professors on the Israeli-Arab peace process.