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The paper deals with books written about Oslo and the peace process since the Madrid Peace Conference after 1991. Since 2000, up to 40 books have been written on the peace process and negotiations, and this paper highlights some of the literature that has been written. Despite the fact that peace negotiations have been effectively at a standstill since the second Intifada in the year 2000, academics, experts, ex-officials, Israelis, Americans, Europeans and some Arabs continued to write books about the nature of diplomatic negotiations. The paper shows the vibrancy of writings from across the globe range from academics in Norway, to the United States, and Israel. "The secret Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations in Oslo" by Steve Behrendt, is a testament to what academics think they can learn about peace-making process. And in his book "Peace-making is a Risky Business: Norway's Role in the Peace Process in the Middle East", the Norwegian Henriksen Waage, examines politics of peace and neutral states power to bring parties to talks. Whilst Norway and more so the United States are leading the literary production, it is Israeli academics and Jewish writers that have been particularly interested in writing whether in the form of documentary writing, analysis or in the memoir form. It appears that they have taken the lull in the peace process to "recharge" as it were their political establishment, in the hope that once the train of negotiations starts again, their political cadre, officials, and diplomats would be up-to-date and ready. The proliferation of books on Oslo, peace negotiations, the diplomatic style, the relations from around the world suggests however that nearly everyone is interested in the different tracks of peace and the paper is about that interest.
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