BADIL 2003 – 2004 Expert Forum for the

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

  List of Participants

Rights-Based Durable Solutions for Palestinian Refugees:

Ways Forward

Hosted by the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies
and the Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced (ADRID)
Haifa, 1 - 4July 2004

• Ibrahim Al-Baz, Palestine ROR Coalition-Europe;

• Riccardo Bocco, Institute of Graduate Development Studies, Geneva;

• Gail J. Boling, independent legal researcher working in affiliation with Birzeit University’s Institute of Law (speaker);

• Eitan Bronstein, Zochrot (speaker);

• Nihad Boqai, BADIL Research and Information;

• Rola Hamed, Batshalom;

• Brigitte Herremans, Middle East Desk Officer, Borderlijk Delen/Pax Christi, Belgium;

• Isabelle Humphries, PhD candidate, St. Mary’s College, Surrey, UK;

• Leila Hilal, legal advisor, PLO Negotiations Support Unit;

• Hazem Jamjoum, al-Awda Canada; Law and International Relations student, University of Toronto;

• Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, director, BADIL (speaker);

• Shlomit Kafri, Bar’am-Bir’im initative (speakers);

• Michael Kagan, lawyer, consultant, BADIL Resource Center (speaker);

• Ya’el Lerer, Andalous Publishers;

• Einat Luzati, Bar’am-Bir;im initiative (speaker); 

• Ameer Makhoul, director, Ittijah – Union of Arab Community Based Associations, Haifa;

• Molly Malekar, director, Bat Shalom;

• Tayseer Mar’i, head of foreign affairs desk, Golan for Development Association;

• Celia McKeon, Accord Programme Manager, Conciliation Resources (speaker);

• Khader Musleh, European Commission, Social and Civil Society Sector;

• Karma Nabulsi, Nuffield College, Oxford, U.K. (speaker);

• Jessica Nevo, sociologist, graduate of Humphrey Fellowship Program on Restorative and Transitional Justice and Human Rights (speaker);

• Ed Nyce, Assistant Country Representative, Mennonite Central Committee-WBG;

• Ilan Pappe, ETI (speaker);

• Terry Rempel, coordinator, BADIL Research and Information (speaker); 

• Frederik Rosen, Danchurch Aid; fredrik@svanenet.dk

• Nadim Ruhana, director, Arab Center for Applied Social Research (MADA);

• Areej Sabbagh: researcher, MADA;

• Bernard Sabella, Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR), Middle East Council of Churches (MECC);

• Joseph Schechla, HIC Land Rights Project;

• Alistair Wallbaum, Political Officer, Canadian Representative Office, Ramallah;

• Nahida Zahra, Bir’im-Bar’am initiative;

Rapporteurs

• Muhammad A.I. Daraghma, Hiba Tahhan, Firas Baydoun (Al-Ayyam newspaper);

• BADIL team.

Assistant Coordinator

• Sylvia Shalev, ETI; yeshalev@bezeqint.net

Unable to attend, but wishing to remain informed:

• Awad Abdelfattah, Secretary General, Tajamoa-BALAD;

• Hussein Abu Hussein, advocate, HRA;

• Amneh Badran, director, Jerusalem Center for Women;

• Gudrun Bertinussen, Resident Reprensentative, NPA-Palestine;

• Anat Biletzky, professor of philosophy, Tel Aviv University;

• Coordinating Committee, Al Awda Palestine ROR Coalition, North America;

• Odeh Bisharat, Secretray General, Democratic Front for Peace and Equality;

• Karen Koning Abuzayd, Deputy Commissioner General, UNRWA;

• Marwan Dalal, advocate, Adalah;

• Usama Halabi, advocate (MADA);

• Lynn Hastings, legal advisor, UNSCO;

• Mughir Hindi, Al-Awda Canada;

• Mahmoud Issa, coordinator, Palestine ROR Coalition-Europe;

• Rama Mani, Associate Faculty, Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP); (speaker);

• Suheil M. Miari, member of Managing Committee, Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel/ADRID, (speaker);

• Sami Mshasha, public relations, UNRWA;

• Paul Prettitore, former legal advisor, OSCE-Bosnia;

• Rana Qumsiyeh, public relations and advocacy officer, YWCA-Palestine;

• Hanna Swaid, Director General, Arab Center for Alternative Planning;

• Lex Takkenberg, Deputy Director, UNRWA-Syria;

• Mirjam Vanbelle, Flemish Palestine Committee and Oxfam Solidarity, Belgium;

• Muhammad Zeidan, director, Arab Association for Human Rights, Nazareth;  

• Khawla Zoabi, Ittijah;