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Yehuda Lukacs

Yehuda Lukacs is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Global Affairs at George Mason University, where he served as Associate Provost for International Programs and founding director of the Center for Global Education. Born in Budapest, Lukacs spent his childhood in the Brazilian rainforest and Tel Aviv. At George Mason, he co-founded the university’s undergraduate Global Affairs program and led more than 25 student study-abroad programs to 35 countries across Europe, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He also served as president of the Virginia Council for International Education. Lukacs has written extensively on international affairs, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S.-Israel relations, migration, and peace processes. Dr. Lukacs has also worked extensively on international education and cross-cultural engagement and served as a Lady Davis Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the executive producer of the documentary Migration Studies (2017), filmed in Hungary and Serbia, which examines Europe’s refugee crisis. His books include Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process (Syracuse University Press), The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record and Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Cambridge University Press), and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Two Decades of Change, co-edited with Abdallah Battah. His most recent book, Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond, brings together his recent writing on war, peace, and international affairs. His articles and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Hill, The Forward, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Middle East Journal, Journal of Palestine Studies, and The Palestine-Israel Journal, among other publications. His work reflects a longstanding interest in the relationship between conflict, displacement, human dignity, governance, and the possibilities for reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. Dr.Lukucs, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service.