EUMENIA aims to bring scholars into the different classrooms of European and Middle Eastern universities, thus fostering exchanges between academics and students. The latest teaching visit organized in the framework of EUMENIA, saw Dr. Daniela Huber, Head of the Mediterranean and Middle East Programme at …
The Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute for International Studies organised a roundtable on the subject of Palestinian Refugees in the Palestinian Media on 13-14/03/2019. More information here (in Arabic).
The international conference “70 years of UNRWA in a Middle East in turmoil: hopes and challenges for Palestine refugees” was organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) with the participation of Pierre Krähenbühl, Commissioner-General, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on 02/04/2019 in Rome, Italy.
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New EUMENIA Policy Paper by Dr. Daniela Huber “A New Venice Declaration from a “Coalition of the Lead Donors” on Israel/Palestine”, 23/04/2019. The article is available here and the pdf here.
Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Daniela Huber participated in the international conference “The International System with Trump: to Where?” organized by the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, 16-17 April 2019. You can see more here
“Unintended Consequences of State-building Projects in Contested States: The EU in Palestine” by Dr. Dimitris Bouris, published in The International Spectator.
ABSTRACT: The existing literature on state-building has focused mainly on post-conflict cases and ‘conventional’ examples of statehood, without taking into consideration the particularities of states that remain internally and/or externally contested. The EU’s engagement in Palestinian state-building through the deployment of EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah has generated various types of unintended consequences: anticipated and unanticipated, positive and negative, desirable and undesirable, some of which fulfill and some of which frustrate the initial intention. These have important reverberations for the EU’s conflict resolution strategies in Israel and Palestine, the most important being the strengthening of power imbalances and the enforcement of the status quo.
The full article is available here
Dr. Dimitris Bouris and Dr. Daniela Huber visited Birzeit University and offered lectures on the European Union’s Foreign Policy. Dr. Dimitris Bouris spoke about the Future of the EU in International Politics and Dr. Daniela Huber spoke about the EU’s role in the Palestine Israel …
Nabil Shaath, the foreign policy adviser of the Palestinian President, gave a lecture at Birzeit University on the Palestinian quest for independence within an international context, on Wednesday, November 7th, 2018. Learn more about the event.
Khaled Al-Hroub, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Northwestern University in Qatar, gave a lecture on the impact of colonial powers on Palestinian statehood, and the historic plan to delegitimize the Palestinian quest for independence, at Birzeit University on Thursday, October 4th 2018.
See more on the event at Birzeit University.