| Archives: 2002-2003 2003
25 October 2003. A copy of the Geneva
Accord has been added to the PRRN documents
section.
23 September 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.
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.
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