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25 October 2003. A copy of the Geneva Accord has been added to the PRRN documents section.
23 Septembert 2003. An article by Marmor, Andrei, "Entitlement to Land and the Right of Return: An Embarrassing Challenge for Liberal Zionism", University of Southern California - Law School, 2003, has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
20 August 2003. An article by Oroub El-Abed, "The invisible Palestinians of Egypt Refugees face discrimination, poverty and no access to basic services", 18 August 2003, has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
15 August 2003. A speech by Bill Clinton, Clinton Speech on Mideast Peace Parameters, January 7th, 2001, has been added in the Documents on the Refugee Issue section.
15 August 2003. An article by Shikaki, Khalil, "The Right of Return", Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2003, has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
24 July 2003. The PRRN website is currently receiving an average of 234 visits per week, or over twelve thousand per year. To date, hits have been registered from 143 countries:
North America: 47.6%
Europe: 17.5%
Middle East/North Africa: 8.8%
Australasia: 3.5%
South and East Asia: 3.3%
sub-Saharan Africa: 0.4%
South and Central America: 0.3%
unknown: 18.6%17 July 2003. A link to an article by Hanafi, Sari, "Opening the Debate on the Right of Return" (Middle East Report 222, Spring 2002), has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to a paper by Salem, Tanja, "Palestinian Refugees: How Can a Durable Solution Be Achieved?" (Middle East & Euro-Med Working Paper no. 6, July 2003 - Free online PDF download) has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. An article by the Palestine Liberation Organization, "Palestinian Refugees in Iraq", has been added in the Documents on the Refugee Issue.
17 July 2003. A link to the IDRC: Stocktaking II Conference on Palestinian Refugee Research (17-20 June 2003, Ottawa) website has been added.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by ABU-LIBDEH, Hasan, "Statistical Data on Palestinian Refugees; Prospects for Contribution to Final Settlement," has been added.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Akram, Susan M., and Terry Rempel, "TEMPORARY PROTECTION FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES: A PROPOSAL," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Altaqi, Samir, "An opinion about the Host Country position regarding the Palestinian Refugees issue," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Alterman, Rachelle, "Land and Housing Strategies for Immigrant Absorption: Learning from the Israeli Experience," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Aronson, Geoffrey, and Jan de Jong, "Proposal summary: Israeli Settlements and the Palestinian Refugee Question: Evaluating the Prospects and Implications of Settlement Evacuation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency Rights, "‘Representative Research’ – A Practical Approach to Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees as Part of a Comprehensive Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Benvenisti, Eyal, "The Right of Return in International Law: An Israeli Perspective," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Brynen, Rex, "Refugees, Repatriation, and Development: Some Lessons from Recent Work," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Brynen , Rex, Eileen Alma, Joel Peters, Roula el-Rifai and Jill Tansley, "The 'Ottawa Process': An Examination of Canada’s Track Two Involvement in the Palestinian Refugee Issue," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Brynen, Rex, "The Roadmap and the Refugees," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Dumper, Mick, "An EU Study on the Return and Re-integration of Palestinian Refugees and Displaced Persons: A summary," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by El-Abed, Oroub, "Palestinians in Egypt," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Fischbach, Michael R., "The Usefulness of the UNCCP Archives for Palestinian Refugee Compensation/Restitution Claims," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to a presentation by Grinstein, Gidi, "Israel, Capping & the International Mechanism," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section (ppt format)
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Hanafi, Sari, "The impact of Social Capital on the Eventual Repatriation Process of Refugees: Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in the Palestinian Territories and Israel," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Hanssen-Bauer, Jon, and Laurie Blome Jacobsen, "Living in provisional normality – The living conditions of Palestinian refugees in the host countries of the Middle East," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Al-Masri, Hani, "Palestinian and Arabic Media and the Issue of Refugees," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Nabulsi, Karma, "Participatory Models of Democracy and the Refugee Issue Working Paper," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Nasser, Maher, "Palestine Refugee Records Project," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Nathanson, Roby, "Survey of Palestinian Refugee Real Estate Holdings in Israel: Legal Mechanisms after 1948 which Enable Accurate Identification of Real Estate Owned by Palestinian Refugees And a Proposed Compensation Model accordingly," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Nijem, Khalil, "Planning in Support of Negotiations: The Refugees Issue," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Parvathaneni, Harish, "Who are the refugees: social, economic and legal conditions," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Patel, Vandana, "A Comparative Analysis of Mass Claims Mechanisms," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Rabbani, Mouin, and Jalal Al-Husseini, "PALESTINIAN REFUGEES: POLITICAL MOBILISATION AND PERMANENT SETTLEMENT," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by SALAMEH, SAJI, "Engaging the Public Opinion," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Shehadi, Nadim, "Who Can Discuss What? The need for a comprehensive mechanism," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by Shiblak, Abbas, "Statelessness among Palestinian Refugees," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
17 July 2003. A link to an article by The World Bank, "HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE: SCENARIOS FOR REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS," has been added in the Research Materials on the Refugee Issue section.
16 May 2003. A link to an article by the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, PLO: Displaced Persons (interim issues), has been added.
16 May 2003. An article by the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, PLO: Frequently Asked Questions on Refugees, has been added.
16 May 2003. A link to an article by the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, PLO: Refugees (permanent status issues), has been added.
4 March 2003. A paper by Yehuda Shenhav, "What do Palestinians and Arab-Jews Have in Common? Nationalism and Ethnicity Examined Through the Compensation Question", has been added.
4 March 2003. A paper by Yehuda Shenhav, "Jews from Arab Countries and the Palestinian Right for Return: An Ethnic Community in Realms of National Memory", has been added.
21 January 2003. A link to an article by David Radler, Understanding the roots of the problem, "Refugees forever? Issues in the Palestinian-Israel Conflict", Jerusalem Post, 2003. has been added.
2002
24 July 2002 An article by Akiva Eldar, "The revolutionary road to 194." (Ha'aretz Monday, July 22, 2002) has been copied to PRRN.
19 July 2002. An article by Yossi Beilin, "What really happened at Taba", (Ha'aretz, July 16th, 2002) has ben copied to PRRN.
1 June 2002. A debate in the New York Review of Books, June 13th, 2002 by Benny Morris. "Camp David and After: An Exchange (1. An Interview with Ehud Barak)" and Hussein Agha & Robert Malley "(2. A Reply to Ehud Barak), have been copied to PRRN.
31 May 2002. A paper by Michael Lynk, "The Right to Compensation in International Law
and the Displaced Palestinians", has been added.20 May 2002. An article by Ian Lustick, Lustick, Ian S. "Through Blood and Fire Shall Peace Arise" (Tikkun Magazine, May/June 2002), has been linked via Tikkun.org)
4 May 2002. A report by Human Rights Watch, "Israel, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority Territories / Jenin: IDF Military Operations". HRW 14, 3 (E) (May 2002), has been linked to the PRRN research documents section.
4 May 2002 In May 2002, Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet will enter its sixth year of activity. During this period, over 100,000 visitors have visited the PRRN website (http://www.prrn.org), or the associated website of the Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator (http://www.unsco.org).
As of 31 March 2002, there had been some 60,058 visitors to PRRN and 32,655 visitors to UNSCO. An average of 850 persons per week visit the sites. The websites have been accessed by users in at least 120 different countries around the world [1].
Monitoring of visitors to PRRN suggests that 41.9% of all visitors are located in Canada and the US, 15.7% in Europe, 8.5% in the Middle East, 19.6% elsewhere in Asia, Africa, or Latin America, and 14.3% are unknown. Monitoring data shows that visitors have come from at least 17 different countries in the region, including several (Iran, Syria, Sudan, Yemen) where access to the latest international research on the Palestinian refugee issue might otherwise be problematic. In the case of the UNSCO website, 13.2% of visitors are located in the Middle East (most in Israel or Palestine).
Users continue to report a high degree of satisfaction with the PRRN website. Of the respondents who have completed the online survey since January 2001, 45% indicated that they found it "very useful," 55% found it "useful," and none found it "not useful."
In the case of the FOFOGNET email digest (on Palestinian refugees) and PALDEV email digest (on West Bank/Gaza development issues), some 3,000 issues have been distributed to date. At an average of 3.5 items per digest, this is approximately 10,500 articles, announcements, and other news items disseminated since the inception of the project. Presently, a total of 579 subscribers from 22 countries [2] belong to the two lists.
[1] Andora, Antigua, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Khazakstan, Kuwait, Kyrgistan, Lebanon, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Macedonia, Maldives, Mexico, Moldavia, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Rumania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Surinam, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, UAE, UK, US, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
[2] Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, UK, US, South Africa, Sweden, plus the EU and UN agencies.
27 April 2002. A survey, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL AID DURING THE SECOND INTIFADA (Report III, December 2001) An Analysis of Palestinian Public Opinion in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on their Living Conditions (15 June - 31 October 2001) has been added. .(PDF file, 657KB)
20 April 2002. A paper by Ian S. Lustick (University of Pennsylvania), entitled "Negotiating Truth: The Holocaust, Lehavdel, and al-Nakba", has been added.
20 April 2002. An editorial by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley."A solution is possible now: Middle East negotiations have failed. But the US can make a final deal stick". (The Guardian, Friday March 29, 2002) has been copied to the research papers section. Their article in Foreign Affairs 81(3), May 1st, 2002, entitled "The Last Negotiation: How to End the Middle East Peace Process", has also been copied to PRRN.
20 April 2002. An article by Ellen Siegel, "After Nineteen Years: Sabra and Shatila Remembered". (Middle East Policy Council: Middle East Policy 8(4) December 2001) has been linked to the research papers section.
10 April 2002. A copy of the Beirut Declaration (March 2002), has been added to the PRRN documents section.
17 March 2002. An article by Sari Hanafi, "Opening the Debate on the Right of Return", from Middle East Report (Spring 2002) has been copied to PRRN.
16 March 2002 A link to a map by Philippe Rekacewicz, "Palestinian refugees living in the middle east". Le Monde diplomatique, February 2002, has been added.
15 February 2002. An article in the February 14th, 2002 issue of Ha'aretz by Akiva Eldar, "'Moratinos Document' - The peace that nearly was at Taba", has been copied to this site.
15 February 2002. An article by Simon Haddad, "The Palestinian Predicament in Lebanon" from Middle East Quarterly Vol. 7(3) pp. 29, has been posted.
14 January 2002. A full-length version and a smaller briefing paper by Gail J. Boling, "The 1948 Palestinian Refugees and the >Individual Right of Return: An International Law Analysis"have been posted at BADIL in PDF format.
14 January 2002. An article by Yossi Alpher for Ramallah Online, "Refugees Forever?", has been added to the Research Papers section.
2001
29 December 2001. A chapter by Emanuel Marx, "Marx, Emanuel. "Refugee Compensation: Why the Parties have been Unable to Agree and Why it is Important to Compensate Refugees for Losses" (Pp. 102-108 in Palestinian Refugees: Old Problems - New Solutions, Joseph Ginat and Edward J. Perkins (eds.). Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001) has been reprinted here.
5 November 2001. The Ajial Center has released a report entitled "Non-Governmental Organizations in the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon."
31 October 2001. A link to an article by Efraim Karsh, "Rights and Wrongs: History of the Palestinian 'Right of Return'" (The Review, Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council. June 2001) has been posted.
2 September 2001 A copy of the "Report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee" [Mitchell Report], from 30 April 2001, has been added to the Basic Documents Section.
1 September 2001 Documents related to the January 2001 Taba Declaration have been copied in Le Monde Diplomatique
28 August 2001 The Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information has relased a survey report on Palestinian Refugees and the Negotiations for Permanent Status (August 2001)
25 August 2001. A paper byRosemary Sayigh, "No Work, No Space, No Future: Palestinan in Lebanon" Middle East International, 10 August 2001, has been added.
25 August 2001. The Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine has released an information brief by Atif A. Kubursi, "Palestinian Losses in 1948: Calculating Refugee Compensation".(August 2001)
24 August 2001. A March 1999 Oxfam GB Briefing Paper: Palestinian Refugees and the UN Relief and Works Agency, is now available.
02 June 2001. A transcript of former US President Bill Clinton's remarks at the Israel Policy Forum Gala on January 7th, 2001 has been added.
01 June 2001. An article in Ha'aretz (Tuesday, May 29, 2001) by Akiva Eldar, "How to solve the Palestinian refugee problem", has been reprinted at PRRN, along with a follow-up article, Sir, if you please, tear down your house" (Ha'aretz, Thursday, May 31, 2001)
30 May 2001. The background page on Refugees in the Middle East Peace Process has been updated.
15 May 2001. A Report by the Labour Middle East Council, Conservative Middle East Council, Liberal Democrat Middle East Council of the United Kingdom, Right of Return: Joint Parliamentary Middle East Councils Commission of Enquiry - Palestinian Refugees (London, March 2001.), has been posted.
(PDF File, 1.44 MB)27 January 2001. A paper by Jerome Segal of the University of Maryland, "Right of Return Confusions", has been posted to the PRRN research pages.
2000
17 November 2000. A June 2000 paper by Dr. Hamad Said al-Mahed, entitled "The Palestinian Refugees in Syria: Their Past, Present, and Future" (prepared for the Expert and Advisory Services Fund - International Development Research Centre) has been added. (PDF file - 281KB)
17 November 2000. A June 2000 paper by Dr. Hamad Said al-Mahed, entitled "The Palestinian Refugees in Syria: Their Past, Present, and Future" (prepared for the Expert and Advisory Services Fund - International Development Research Centre) has been added. (PDF file - 281KB)
31 October 2000. A paper has been added by David Newman, entitled "Palestinian Refugee Resettlement: Learning from the Israeli Development Town and Mass Immigration Experience of the 1950's and 1990's", (prepared for Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet, July 2000.)
30 October 2000. Papers by Randa Farah, "Report on the Psychological Effects of Overcrowding in Refugee Camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip", prepared for the Expert and Advisory Services Fund - International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and Mona Marshy, entitled "The Social and Psychological Effects of Overcrowding: in Palestinian Refugee Camps in the West Bank and Gaza Literature Review and Preliminary Assessment of the Problem", prepared for the International Development Research Centre), have been posted.
30 October 2000. A paper by Nahla Abdo, "Engendering Compensation: Making Refugee Women Count!", prepared for the Expert and Advisory Services Fund International Development Research Centre, has been released.
02 October 2000. A paper by Thomas Hammarberg entitled "The Palestinian Refugees: After Five Decades of Betrayal - Time at Last?" (Stockholm: Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2000) has been released.
10 August 2000. An article by Elia Zureik entitled "Palestinian Refugees Must Be Allowed to Choose -
Middle East: Israel's rejection of the right of return goes against international law" has appeared in the Los Angeles Times.17 July 2000. A paper by Maren Zerriffi (FOFOGNET Digest 197), Preliminary Thoughts on US Financing of a Compensation Regime for Palestinian Refugees, has been added to PRRN publications.
14 May 2000. A new paper by Simon Haddad on "Palestinians in Lebanon: Towards Integration or Conflict" has been posted to the papers section of PRRN.
14 April 2000. The final report (and associated papers) are now available for PRRN's workshop on "The Future of UNRWA"
