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WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Saturday 10 - Sunday 11 March 2012
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford3 Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3TB
This two-day, non-residential, workshop places the Palestinian refugee case
study within the broader context of the international human rights regime. It
examines, within a human rights framework, the policies and practices of
Middle Eastern states as they impinge upon Palestinian refugees. Through a
mix of lectures, working group exercises and interactive sessions,
participants engage actively and critically with the contemporary debates in
international law and analyse the specific context of Palestinian refugees in
the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza).
The workshop commences with the background of the Palestinian refugee crisis,
with special attention to the socio- political historical context and legal
status of Palestinian refugees in the region. This is followed by a careful
examination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights including its
philosophical underpinnings and ensuing human rights instruments in
international law. The key themes, which have taken centre stage in the
debate on the Palestinian refugee crisis, are statelessness, right of return,
repatriation, self-determination, restitution compensation and protection.
These themes are critically examined along with current discussions about the
respective roles of UNRWA, UNHCR and the UNCCP in the Palestinian refugee
case.
Instructors:
Professor Dawn Chatty is University Professor in Anthropology and Forced
Migration and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
She is a social anthropologist and has conducted extensive research among
Palestinian and other forced migrants in the Middle East. Some of her recent
works include Children of Palestine: Experiencing Forced Migration in the
Middle East (ed. with Gillian Lewando-Hundt), Berghahn Press, 2005, and
Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Dr Susan M. Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law,
teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human
rights law She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington
DC (JD), and the Institut International des Droits de l?Homme, Strasbourg
(Diploma in international human rights). She is a past Fulbright Senior
Scholar in Palestine, teaching at Al-Quds University/Palestine School of Law
in East Jerusalem
Maximum twenty-five places on the workshop.
Fee: £300
For further information contact: Heidi El-Megrisi,
Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development,
University of Oxford, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)1865 281728
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