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Bethlehem, July 2007: BADIL
Resource Center announces the release of the
Fall 2007 issue of al-majdal
English-language quarterly magazine, which
focuses on
the role of accountability in the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
This issue aims to contribute
to the discussion on how Palestinian
refugees and internally displaced persons,
states, civil society and lawyers can and/or
do hold accountable their representatives,
Israel, the UN and other members of the
Quartet.
Included in this issue, among
others, is an analysis of the political
context on the eve of the Annapolis Meeting
and the need for Palestinian and
international civil societies to build an
anti-apartheid movement, including the
Boycott-Divestment-Sanction (BDS) campaign,
in order to hold Israel to account for its
continued violations of international law.
A comparative analysis of the Bosnian and
Palestinian peace agreements examines how
peace agreements have addressed remedies for
the crime of population transfer, while
another article discusses the role of
refugees in bringing about an 'agreed upon'
solution to the refugee question. Based on
the concept of a responsibility to protect,
an overview is presented of the actions
states and international organizations can
undertake to end Israel's violations of
human rights and humanitarian law. Finally,
the emerging principle of universal
jurisdiction and its applicability to the
Palestinian case is examined.
60 years after India's
partition and the failed UN partition plan
for Palestine, other
articles in this issue explore Israel's
manipulative use of the Indian case to
justify its discriminatory regime in
Palestine, assess the importance of building
a Palestine lobby in the US, and report
about current forced displacement of
Palestinians, as well as recent efforts at
building accountability.
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To download the
online PDF version of al Majdal:
http://www.badil.org/al-majdal/al-majdal.htm
Annual
subscriptions are available online (www.badil.org)
or from
admin@badil.org
for Euro 25 (for four issues) |
