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The Missing Ingredient in Every Peace Deal | Hiba Qasas | TED

What if the path to peace starts with self-interest? After four decades inside some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, mediator Hiba Qasas has learned that most peacebuilding efforts get it wrong from the start. She makes a provocative case that conciliation shouldn’t begin with empathy — and reveals how leading with shared incentives…

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What if the path to peace starts with self-interest? After four decades inside some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones, mediator Hiba Qasas has learned that most peacebuilding efforts get it wrong from the start. She makes a provocative case that conciliation shouldn’t begin with empathy — and reveals how leading with shared incentives brought hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian leaders into active collaboration, even in the midst of war. (Recorded at TED2026 on April 14, 2026)

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  1. @Suavementenietze

    June 2, 2026 at 11:08 am

    Peace is not profitable

    • @scaradim

      June 2, 2026 at 11:17 am

      …for me and my group, above others, in my life timespan.

    • @Tujae_

      June 2, 2026 at 11:43 am

      Destroying the world is also not profitable.

    • @B1ackout850

      June 2, 2026 at 3:34 pm

      @Tujae_ it is for the people who make weapons

  2. @BMAslamShahstories

    June 2, 2026 at 11:13 am

    Strong mind make strong ideas

  3. @greigsanderson

    June 2, 2026 at 11:16 am

    Because the peaceful religion, aren’t peaceful?

    • @Believer1995ofGod

      June 2, 2026 at 11:20 am

      @greigsanderson yea they got bases all over the world and military staged right on the borders of other nations.

    • @REBAT_ISLAM_AL_SALAM

      June 2, 2026 at 11:26 am

      Not peacful with occupational entities like israel didn’t exist before 1948

      And since then 78 years of blood to everyone including British people and american people
      Google nakba and u will know .

    • @Kaushik_40

      June 2, 2026 at 11:35 am

      @greigsanderson I agree brother

    • @enayet123

      June 2, 2026 at 2:21 pm

      That is pretty antisemitic

    • @Mentaculus42

      June 2, 2026 at 5:47 pm

      @greigsanderson

      AND some elements are just outright EVIL!

  4. @quadpumped34

    June 2, 2026 at 11:18 am

    peacedeals don’t last because the war industry controls many of our governments, the parasite lives off death and destruction thats why those don’t last.

    • @francesbernard2445

      June 2, 2026 at 11:57 am

      Which banking institutions are passively helping to maintain those war industries for only short term gain causing long term pain for everyone.

  5. @REBAT_ISLAM_AL_SALAM

    June 2, 2026 at 11:23 am

    Sis u r scientificly right but
    U made a system without power to do it
    U r stil defective
    As a muslim arab Egyptian
    I felt u don’t know how to apply any of ur ideas or any idea
    Bcz u lack power
    Egypt didn’t get sinai back out of ideas but unity cooperation , coordination then fight endlessly till death
    After that we got sinai
    Other than that Israel would now be killing Muslims in sinai
    But not bcz of power not rooms

  6. @francesbernard2445

    June 2, 2026 at 11:55 am

    That over-beurocratised peace, besides tax money, runs mostly on political propaganda that spans from east to west designed only to maintain that unfinished business.

  7. @arkangelmodx

    June 2, 2026 at 12:21 pm

    She talking a whole lot to not running a whole country.

    • @arkangelmodx

      June 2, 2026 at 12:22 pm

      *to not run*

  8. @ExistentialWolf

    June 2, 2026 at 12:42 pm

    In conflict resolution you need to be clear on scope. Time moves on with a winner or it stalls with equality.

  9. @josefshopovich7584

    June 2, 2026 at 5:36 pm

    Because there’s a difference between peace between governments and peace between people.
    To have peace between people, both nations have to stop hating the citizens of the other people.
    Like actually change their educational system.

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