Rights in Principle – Rights in Practice

This collection demonstrates the importance of a law-based approach to resolving the situation of the Arabs displaced from Palestine in 1948. The collection is the more important in light of the paucity of serious analysis of this issue from the standpoint of relevant international law principles. In any peace process, the legitimate expectations of the parties and other stakeholders should be at the forefront of consideration. If such expectations are ignored, a resulting peace may turn out to be ephemeral, because it may not be accepted by those whose rights have not been respected.