Mark Perry is a Director of the Conflicts Forum and a military, intelligence and foreign affairs analyst and writer. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications and he is the author of six books. He is currently working on his seventh book (Penguin Press), which is a history of the Marshall-Eisenhower military partnership during World War II.

During the late 1970s and early and mid-1980s, Mark Perry served as editor and Washington bureau chief for a number of publications. He also served as editor for Washington D.C.’s City Paper, and for six years, as editor of The Veteran, the largest circulation newspaper for veterans. Perry authored an article for Regardies magazine on the CIA’s program to destabilize Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

He has served as a consultant to CNN on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was the recipient of the University of California’s prestigious “Censored Award.” He is currently Washington correspondent for The Palestine Report, a foreign policy internet magazine focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He founded and was President of the Institute for Conflict Resolution Studies and is a leading expert on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.