BADIL 2003 – 2004 Expert Forum for the

Promotion of a Rights-Based Approach to the Palestinian Refugee Question

  List of Participants

‘Housing and Property Restitution

in Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees’

Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED) Geneva, 2-4 October 2003

• Salman Abu Sitta, President, Palestine Land Society, London;

• Susan Akram, Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law;

• Muthanna Amous, UN Compensation Commission, Geneva;

• George Bisharat, Professor of Law, Hastings College; Al-Awda North America

• Riccardo Bocco, Research Director, Graduate Institute for Development Studies (IUED), University of Geneva;

• Gail Boling, Senior Research Affiliate, Birzeit University Institute of Law;

• Matthias Burchard, Chief, UNRWA Liaison Office, Geneva;

• Michael Dumper, Reader in Middle East Politics, University of Exeter;

• Walpurga Englbrecht, Research Officer, Protection, Policy & Legal Advice Section, UNHCR, Geneva;

• Michael Fischbach, Professor of History, Randolph-Macon College;

• Barbara Fontana, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs (PD IV);

• Madeline Garlick, Civil Affairs Political Officer with the United Nations in Cyprus;

• Usama Halabi, Advocate, Jerusalem;

• Safwat Ibraghith, Palestinian Delegation, UNESCO, Paris;

• Mahmoud Issa, researchers, Palestine Right-of-Return Coalition, Denmark;

• Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, director, BADIL Resource Center;

• Lisa Jones, Special Assistant, UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Cyprus;

• Ursula Keller, Program Coordinator Middle East, Christian Peace Service (CFD);

• Hugh Massey, Information Officer (Research), Protection Information Section, Department of International

• Protection, UNHCR, Geneva;

• Franziska Mueller, Communication Officer, CFD;

• Marise Pegat-Toquet, Coordinator, Research Department, IUED, Geneva;

• Jean du Plessis, Deputy Director, Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE);

• Paul Prettitore, Legal Advisor, OSCE Bosnia-Herzegovina;

• Terry Rempel, Coordinator, Research and Information, BADIL Resource Center;

• Joseph Schechla, coordinator, Housing and Land Rights Network, HIC;

• Susanne Scheidt, Journalist, Arabmonitor; Al-Awda Italy;

• Maria Siemens, UNHCR Madrid, Spain;

• Mays Warrad, Coordinator of Secretariat, Refugee Coordination Group (PLO-PNA);

• Issam Younis, Director General, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Jabalya Camp, Gaza;

• Khaled Zo'abi, Chairperson, Arab Association for Human Rights, Nazareth;
   

The following persons were unable to participate but wished to remain informed:

• Christian Berger, European Commission, Political Advisor - Near East;

• Marwan Dallal, Advocate, Adalah Center for Legal Services;

• Hussein Abu Hussein, advocate, Arab Association for Human Rights;

• Saji Khalil, Director General, PLO Department for Refugee Affairs;

• Karma Nabulsi, Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford;

• Khalil Nijm, Director General, Strategic Planning Directorate, PNA Ministry of Planning;

• Mieke Zagt, ICCO;

• Leila Hilal, legal advisor, PLO Negotiation Affairs Unit;

• Reem Alsalem, protection officer, UNHCR Jalalabad;

• Mohamed El-Sayed Said, Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies;

• Lex Takkenberg, Deputy Director of UNRWA Affairs-Syria;

• Agnes Bertrant, ECCP;

• Salim Tamari, Institute for Jerusalem Studies;

• Monty Roodt, Rhodes University, South Africa;

• Michael Molloy, former Special Coordinator to the Middle East Peace Process, DFAIT Canada.