Back Channel Negotiation: Security in Middle East Peace ProcessWanis St. John takes on the question of whether the complex and often perilous, secret negotiations between mediating parties prove to be an instrumental path to reconciliation or rather one that disrupts the process. Using the Palestinian Israeli peace process as a frame work, the author focuses on the uses and misuses of "back channel" negotiations. Wanis St. John discusses how top level PLO and Israeli government officials often resorted to secret