Founded in 1990 by figures close to what would become the Oslo process, ECF was built on a simple conviction: that peace is not only a political act but a technical undertaking — one that requires detailed, implementable groundwork prepared long before any agreement is signed.
For more than thirty years we have done that work — much of it out of public view. We research the hard questions of permanent status, we plan the institutions and economics a settlement would require, and we sustain the back-channel relationships between Israelis and Palestinians that official diplomacy cannot always maintain.
We are independent and non-partisan. Our credibility rests not on advocacy, but on rigour, discretion, and the trust of partners across the divide and around the world.
