Pitt's Operations Professor wrote a book on resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, spending 10 years in interviews and crafting among a group of Palestinians and Israelis a path to an agreement for a Palestinian state.

But Hamas will not allow such an ending, Vargas says.

Vargas, who also founded and directs the  at the University of Pittsburgh, published with Springer in 2022: “,” T.L. Saaty, J.H. Zoffer, L.G. Vargas and A.N. Guiora. 

The book develops the roadmap to implement an agreement for a two-state solution: Israel and Palestine.

"It is obvious from our work that, at present, there are no concessions from both parties [Hamas and Israel] that could be used to find a compromise," Vargas says.