The book begins with a historical overview of the Israel-Palestine conflict introducing the reader to the concept of competing norms, Israel's self-defense versus Palestinian self-determination. The author then defines what he means by a just peace on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of all United Nations Security Council resolutions on the question of Palestine. The next part of the book draws on the international relations theory of constructivism and explains both the intractability and an approach to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict in relation to international norms and identity factors. Here he outlines the strategic importance of non-violence for the Palestinians. The final part of the book is where the author reconstructs jihad on the basis of a detailed study of the ev