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Human Rights Watch and the Center for Lebanese Studies: Discussion on Egypt, Syria and Lebanon
Join us for a panel discussion and dinner with HRW Egypt Director Heba Morayef and associate editor and Middle East editor of the Financial Times Roula Khalaf, moderated by David Mepham HRW UK Director Thursday, 3rd October 2013 | 7:00pm BLUEBIRD RESTAURANT 350 Kings Road London SW3 5UU Phone: 020 7559 1000 RESERVATIONS Tickets cost…
Read articleBreaking the Cycle – Civil Wars in Lebanon
A three day international conference was held in Lebanon at the Al Bustan. The proceedings have been published in a book ‘Breaking the Cycle – Civil wars in Lebanon’, by the CLS and Stacey International, London, 2007.
Read articleRethinking Education for Social Cohesion: International Case Studies
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (AUB) cordially invite you to the book launch of Rethinking Education for Social Cohesion: International Case Studies Editor: Maha Shuayb (2012) Palgrave Macmillan Including a panel and open discussion with Maha Shuayb,Dina Kiwan & Mark Farha Thursday, February 7, 2013 |…
Read articleConference on Healing the wounds of history: Rwanda
Under the High Patronage of His Excellency The Prime Minister Najib Mikati The Centre for Lebanese Studies at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, The Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, in partnership with The Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation at the Lebanese American University, have co-convened an international conference entitled: “Healing the Wounds of History:…
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Historical Thinking: An Approach for Teaching History in Conflict Areas-Lessons from the Greek Cypriot – Turkish Cypriot Experience”
In October 2012, The Centre in collaboration with the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies. And the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, organized a workshop on “Historical Thinking: An Approach for Teaching History in Conflict Areas-Lessons from the Greek Cypriot – Turkish Cypriot Experience” Historical Thinking seeks to develop…
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Teaching and Learning the Civil War
The Lebanese Association for History (LAH), in collaboration with In collaboration with The Centre for Lebanese Studies, the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, Open Society Foundation Education, and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. The workshop took place at the American University of Beirut on the 18-19 June 2013. The workshop focused…
Read articleNational Reconciliation in Lebanon: an Assessment
The purpose of this joint project between the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding (CAABU) and the Centre for Lebanese Studies was to undertake a one-year research programme, which aimed to collate and evaluate information about efforts towards national reconciliation in Lebanon since 1989. Lebanon’s population, especially the youth, emerged from the years…
Read articleCurrent Research on Lebanon
A workshop organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies and was held in collaboration with the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. It brought young scholars working on Lebanon in Britain, France and the United States together with established academics in order to assess the state-of the-art of Lebanese studies. Participants included Dr…
Read articleConsensus and Conflict in Lebanon
A two day conference held at St. Antony’s College Oxford. The launch of a programme of revision of Lebanon’s history. This conference, organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies was essentially a re-examination and a re-assessment of Lebanon’s history. The aim of the conference was to investigate the nature, causes and limits of the alternations…
Read articleContemporary Lebanon
One-day seminar organised jointly with the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS, University of London The seminar brought together a number of scholars and specialists to discuss the economic and social issues prevailing at the time and analyse the political situation and Lebanon’s international relations. Participants addressed the issue of inflation and…
Read articleRebuilding State and Society in Lebanon
A conference organised jointly by the Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in co-operation with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. The conference aimed to analyze the aftermath of the war in Lebanon and to think about the process of healing and recovery…
Read articleL’Avenir du Liban dans le Contexte Regional et International
A conference organised jointly by the Centre for Lebanese Studies, the Centre d’etudes de l’Orient Contemporain (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III), the Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes, and the Centre d’etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain. It sought both to analyse the complexity of the Lebanese crisis and to look for…
Read articleLebanese Emigration
A three-day conference which launched a long term programme of interest in Lebanese Emigration and brain drain issues. The programme developed to include several publications and the Transfer of know-how through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN) project in collaboration with UNESCO and UNDP. The conference brought together an international group of scholars to discuss the history of…
Read articlePeace Building and Development in Lebanon
A conference organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in collaboration with the International Peace Research Association, UNESCO, the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), the Permanent Delegation of Lebanon to UNESCO, and the Movement Break the Silence. The aim was to bring together Lebanese and international NGOs in order to promote and develop co-ordination between…
Read articleLebanese-Syrian Relations
The Centre for Lebanese Studies organised a special panel on Lebanon at the BRISMES/AFEMAM conference. Participants included Prof Leila Fawaz, Dr George Jabbour, Dr Yann Mens, Dr Chibli Mallat.
Read articleThe Lebanese in Africa
A two-day conference brought together scholars who had worked on the subject of Lebanese emigration in sub-Saharan Africa, journalists, concerned Lebanese-Africans as well as officials. The conference aimed at encouraging frank and constructive debate on issues confronting African countries such as Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Senegal,…
Read articleState and Society in Syria and Lebanon, 1919-1991
A conference organised jointly with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The conference brought together a number of specialists who analysed the various issues that southern Lebanon faced at a critical period of the country’s history. The conference dealt with the following issues: the country’s regional importance, its strategic significance and its security implications…
Read articlePeace-keeping, Water and Security in South Lebanon
A conference organised jointly with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The conference brought together a number of specialists who analysed the various issues that southern Lebanon faced at a critical period of the country’s history. The conference dealt with the following issues: the country’s regional importance, its strategic significance and its security implications…
Read articleThe Reconstruction of Beirut
A one-day conference on the master plan for the reconstruction of the Beirut Central Business District and its implementation by a private real estate company held at the Town and Country Planning Association. The aim of the conference was to have an open and structured discussion with the participation of experts who have been studying…
Read articleParliamentary Elections in Lebanon
A two-day conference organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in co-operation with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the International Peace Academy. The discussions were aimed at assessing the impact of Lebanon’s first parliamentary elections in twenty years and discuss the issue of international monitoring. The conference addressed the geo-political and diplomatic settings;…
Read articleLebanon in the 1950s
A conference organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in co-operation with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The aim of the conference was to bring scholars working on the period of the 1950s, together with diplomats who served at that time, in order to exchange information and…
Read articleLebanon in International Politics
The Centre for Lebanese Studies organised a special panel on Lebanon at the inaugural pan-European conference on Middle East studies where the European Association of Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) was launched. The panel addressed various topics such as The French Expedition of 1861; Civil Conflict in Comparative Perspective; Lebanon and the Conference for Peace in…
Read articleThe French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
A workshop organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College. The aim of the workshop was to bring together scholars currently working on the topic with established experts who have written on the period. The conference addressed issues such as the National Pact; the nationalism…
Read articleThe Palestinians in Lebanon: Core-Group Meeting
A three-day workshop on the Palestinians in Lebanon organised jointly by the Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Refugee Studies Programme. It brought together representatives from the European Commission, UNRWA, various foreign ministries as well as scholars, human rights lawyers and experts on the affairs of the refugees in order to set the agenda for…
Read articleElectoral Systems Conference on Lebanon
A three-day workshop organised jointly with the Electoral Reform International Services (ERIS). It brought together specialists on Lebanon, international experts on comparative electoral systems and Lebanese Members of Parliament in order to assess the Lebanese electoral system, identify ways in which the current system might be modified, and discuss alternative electoral systems and their applicability…
Read articleThe Palestinians in Lebanon
An international conference was organised jointly with the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. Building on the research commissioned in an earlier phase of the project, the conference sought to discuss the future of the Palestinians in Lebanon. Participants included Palestinian and Lebanese experts; representatives from the European Commission; various local and international non-governmental organisations…
Read articleEmerging Lebanon: A New Role for the Future
Lebanon emerged from a state of war which suspended the function and role fulfilled by the country in the region. With recovery well on its way one needs to examine the new parameters that govern the shaping of a new role for Lebanon. The post war period now entering its eighth year, gives us hindsight…
Read articleThe Arab Image in the West
The conference was designed to enable a group of Arabs and Westerners to engage in a ‘brainstorming’ to examine the nature of preconceptions and prejudices, the reasons oral oxandrolone for sale for their formation and the ways in which they can be combated and replaced with more positive images under the patronage of HRH Prince…
Read articlePrivatization in Lebanon
The second of a series of meetings examining current issues in the Lebanese economy. Sponsored by the World Bank, the Ford Foundation and the UK FCO.
Read articleThe Refugee Issue in the Middle East Peace Process
Workshop organised jointly with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. The launch of a two year project on this important issue for Lebanon. Sponsored by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the International Development Research Centre of Canada.
Read articleScenario Building Exercise on the Refugee Issue
Organised jointly with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Part of the two-year project on the Refugee Issue in the Middle East Peace Process. Sponsored by the Swiss Foreign Ministry and the UK FCO.
Read articleIndividual Rights in the Palestine Question
Organised jointly with the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. Part of the two-year project on the Refugee Issue in the Middle East Peace Process. International Development Research Centre of Canada.
Read articleAfter the July War 2006 – Prospects for Lebanon
A one day conference organised in London in association with the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).
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Negotiation of Space: The Politics of Destruction and Reconstruction in Lebanon
This piece of research, culminating in a conference, sought to understand through the multidisciplinary analysis of space and the processes of planning and reconstruction,in a historical context, and to reveal the various practices of space negotiation from a number of perspectives and scales, in an attempt to provide a fresh understanding of the making and…
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Education for Social Cohesion in Lebanon
Introducing hands-on civic education and critical thinking to curricula, while promoting student councils at schools, will enhance social cohesion among students of various religious and ethnic backgrounds in Lebanon. These were some of the main recommendations made by a three-day international conference and workshop on education and social cohesion which wrapped up over the weekend.…
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“Healing the Wounds of History” Conference
“Healing the Wounds of History” Conference November 11-13, 2011 at LAU Byblos in Lebanon This three-day conference initiated by the Centre for Lebanese Studies launched the “Healing the Wounds of History” Program. The main concepts addressed at the conference were the following: 1) causes for violence are rooted in recent but also older and even…
Read articleLebanon’s contemporary borders/boundaries
Workshop Program 18-19th May 2012 Centre for Lebanese Studies – MEC/ St Antony’s College – Oxford University This workshop focused on Lebanon’s contemporary borders/boundaries and their relationship with identity building. It aimed at studying three dimensions that ‘border studies’ used to separate for research purposes. First, the physical aspects of territorial delimitations and their implications…
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Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon
The goal of the conference was to understand violence and conflict in the country, and how these are perceived and inhabited in everyday life. The conference analyzed current political divisions, politics of sectarianism, affects of violence, civil society activism, and the everyday workings of clientalism that all serve to further our understanding of the socio-political…
Read articleConference on Healing the Wounds of History: Rwanda
Under the High Patronage of His Excellency The Prime Minister Najib Mikati The Centre for Lebanese Studies at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, The Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, in partnership with The Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation at the Lebanese American University, have co-convened an international conference entitled: “Healing the Wounds of History:…
Read article12th-14th June 2012 – Healing the Wounds of History: Addressing the Roots of Violence
Inspired by hearing of the success of the November 2011 HWH Conference in Lebanon, The Rwandan Government”s NURC (National Unity and Reconciliation Commission) invited many members of the HWH team, including Alexandra Asseily of the CLS, to go to Kigali in June for another 3-day Conference Workshop. This was funded by the GHFP and several Rwandan…
Read articleBorders, Boundaries and Identity Building in Lebanon
Workshop Program 18-19th May 2012 Centre for Lebanese Studies – MEC/ St Antony’s College – Oxford University This workshop focuses on Lebanon’s contemporary borders/boundaries and their relationship with identity questions. It aims at studying three dimensions that ‘border studies’ used to separate for research purposes. First, the physical aspects of territorial delimitations and their implications…
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