This event is the culmination of two years of research funded by the British Academy and carried out by the Council for British Research in the Levant’s East Jerusalem research centre, the Kenyon Institute.
This project analysed the impact of 20 years of the Oslo framework on all those living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, looking at what the agreements and negotiations, economic protocols, and international donors have achieved as well as what they have not.
In the context of an increasingly hostile debate regarding the feasibility of a two-state solution, and in the absence of a political solution and end to the occupation, this project focused on analysing the contradictory dual processes of separation and unification that have taken place economically, politically and culturally – and how different communities have responded to them. The result is an assessment of the situation as it affects those communities living between the river and the sea, as well as an assessment of the contemporary feasibility of implementing a two-state solution and its possible alternative outcomes.
Event Details
Speakers: Dr Mandy Turner, Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL); Dr Cherine Hussein, CBRL; Dr Mansour Nsasra, CBRL; Dr Toufic Haddad, SOAS; Dimi Reider, European Council on Foreign Relations; Raja Khalidi; Diana Buttu.
Chair: Alaa Tartir, LSE
Date: Wednesday 2 September 2015
Time: Lunch will be provided at 13:30
14:00 - 15:45 Panel 1
15:45 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 18:00 Panel 2
Location: Room 9.04, Tower 2, Clement's Inn, LSE
Event Hashtag: #LSEOslo
Attendance: Registration for this event has now closed.
Speaker
Mandy Turner is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Director of the Kenyon Institute, CBRL.
Cherine Hussein is Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University's International Relations Department. She is also Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Kenyon Institute, CBRL.
Mansour Nsasra is Research Fellow at the CBRL. Before joining the CBRL, Mansour was a Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Conflict Resolution at the University of Exeter.
Dr Toufic Haddad is editor and co-author of Between the Lines: Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. “War on Terror” (Haymarket Books, 2007).
Dimi Reider is an Israeli journalist and an Associate Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
Raja Khalidi is a Palestinian development economist who served with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1985–2013. He currently lives and works as an independent researcher in Palestine.
Diana Buttu is a lawyer specializing in negotiations, international law, and international human rights law. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, and the Stanford Center for Conflict Resolution and Negotiation.