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From: Raed Bader <bader_raed@hotmail.com>
List Editor: Nora Lafi <nora.lafi@CMS.HU-BERLIN.DE>
Editor's Subject: To attend in Bir Zeit: The Palestinian Nation Building After Oslo
Author's Subject: To attend in Bir Zeit: The Palestinian Nation Building After Oslo
Date Written: November 2, 2009
Date Posted: Tue, 02 Nov 2009 02:39:08 -0500



« After Oslo - The Palestinian Nation Building, between State and Diaspora »

November 3rd, 4th, and 5th – Birzeit University and An-Najah University
Palestine


Tuesday 3rd of November – Birzeit University (Institute of Law)



09:00 – 09:30     Registration



09:30 – 10:00     Opening speeches

Pr. Nabil KASSIS               President of Birzeit University

M. Frédéric DESAGNEAUX         Consul General of France in Jerusalem

Mme Aude SIGNOLES              Scientific organizer of the conference





I.    Palestinians Outside the Occupied Territory: Between Refugees and
Diaspora

  First panel (10:00 – 12:30, refreshment break at 11:00)



Chair: Ghassan FARAMAND, Director of Institute of Law, Birzeit University



Saleh ABDELJAWAD, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Public Administration,
Birzeit University

 Opening lecture: The Palestinian Society Facing the Occupier: Apartheid
or Socio-cide?



Jalal AL HUSSEINI, IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient) – Amman (Jordan)

The Status of Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East: Maintaining or
Losing National Identity?



Falestin NAILI, Department of History, Université de Provence,
Aix-Marseille I

    The Displaced Palestinians of 1967: Refugees in the Making?



Respondents:

Abaher AL-SAKKA, Department of Sociology, Birzeit University

Sami MSHASHA, Chief Public Information Officer, UNRWA



Debate with audience





 Second panel (14:00 - 16:30, refreshment break at 15:15)



Chair: Elisabeth LONGUENESSE, Director of Department of Contemporary
Studies at IFPO (Institut français du Proche-Orient) - Beyrouth (Lebanon)



Mohammad SHALALDEH, Dean of Law School, Al-Quds University

            International Protection of Palestinian Refugees under
International Public Law



Cécilia BAEZA, CERI (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales), Paris
  The Palestinians of Chile and the Palestinian National Question



Denys CUCHE, Professor of Sociology, Université Paris Descartes

      The Palestinians of Peru: A Particular Diaspora



Nicolas PUIG, Institute of Research for Development (IRD)

  Aesthetics of the Memory: Music, Politics and Expressiveness in the
Palestinian Camps in Lebanon



Respondent:

Jalal AL HUSSEINI



Debate with audience




Wednesday 4th of November – An Najah University (Korean Institute)





09:30 – 10:00    Welcome speech: Dr. Kherieh KHAROUF, Vice-President of
International Relations, An-Najah University

       Reminder of conference objectives: Aude SIGNOLES



II.                Looking back on Palestine as seen by the Oslo Accords:
Legal, Territorial and Political Issues





ð     First panel (10:00 – 12:30, refreshment break at 11:00)



Chair: Nayef ABU-KHALAF, Director of the Department of Political Science,
An-Najah



Ingrid JARADAT, Director of Badil Resource Center for Palestinian
Residency and Refugee Rights

            A Right Based Approach to the Palestinian Refugee Question



Joni AASI, Palestinian Academy for Security Sciences (Jericho) and Bir
Zeit University

            The Legal Framework of the Palestinian Security Forces



Vincent ROMANI, IREMAM (Institut de recherches et d’études sur le Monde
arabe et musulman), Aix-en-Provence / University of Quebec, Montreal

            Administrative Coercion and Identity Transactions in the
Occupied Territories



Edouard CONTE, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern
(Switzerland)

            Equity vs. Predictability - The Role of the Qadi in the
Palestinian Territories



Respondents:

Mohammed SHARAKA, Law Faculty, An-Najah University

Akram DAOUD, Dean of the Law Faculty, An-Najah University



Debate with audience



 Second panel (14:00 – 17:30, refreshment break at 15:20)



Chair: Paul EDLEMAN, Visiting Professor at An-Najah University (PhD in
Political Science, from Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs)



Ali Sha'ban ABDELHAMID, Planning Department, An-Najah University

The Current Situation of Urban Planning in the Palestinian Territories



Emilio DABED, Ph.D. Candidate at Sciences Po Aix-en-Provence and at IREMAM
(Institut de recherches et d’études sur le Monde arabe et musulman)

A Constitution for a Non-State - The False Hopes of the Palestinian
Constitutionalism (1988-2007)



Aude SIGNOLES, Department of Political Science, Galatasaray University –
Istanbul (Turkey)

The Local Institutions, Support for a Future State or Instrument of
National Liberation?



Benoît CHALLAND, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies

A Battle at Three Levels: International Donors, State and Civil Society in
Palestine - The Case of Charitable Organizations



Respondents:

Vincent ROMANI

Faysal AL-ZANOUN, Department of Sociology, An-Najah University



Debate with audience



Thursday 5th of November – Birzeit University (Institute of Law)





III.    Views from Inside – Current Issues within Palestinian Society





09:05 – 09:15     Introduction: Review of the conference themes

09:15 – 13:30     Closing panel (refreshment break at 10:30)





Chair: Aude SIGNOLES





Elisabeth MARTEU, Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor at University of
Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne

    To Be a Palestinian in Israel in 2009



Islah JAD, Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies, Birzeit University

    New Elements in the Construction of the Palestinian National Identity



Julien SALINGUE, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Paris
8 – Researcher at Labtop

After the Congress in Bethlehem: Where is Fatah going?



Vincent LEMIRE, IREMAM (Institut de recherches et d’études sur le Monde
arabe et musulman), Aix-en-Provence

 Technical and Political Networks and the Palestinian National Identity in
Jerusalem





Respondents:

Moussa ABOU RAMADAN, Institute of Law, Birzeit University

Raed BADER, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit
University





Debate with audience





Academic cooperation between Palestine and France





Elisabeth LONGUENESSE  Presentation of the works of Palestinian Ph.D.
researchers currently studying in France





Closing conference





Pr. Alain JOXE, Academic Supervisor at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales), President of CIRPES (Centre Interdisciplinaire de
Recherches sur la Paix et d'Etudes Stratégiques), member of the Sponsoring
Committee of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine



The Armed Conflicts in Middle East: Strategic and Ethical Problems

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