Alternative Strategies for Realizing Justice In Palestine 13-15 December 2015 Organized by: Institute of Law at Birzeit ; Trans-Arab Research Institute; Mada al- Carmel; the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem; Stop the Wall; and the Arab Studies Institute at George Mason.
Day One Date: Sunday, 13 December 2015 : 430pm - 730pm Location: Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem, Palestine 4:30pm - 4:50pm Opening Remarks Speaker: Sama Oweidha, The Civic Coalition For Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem Noura Erakat, Assistant Professor, George Mason 4:50pm - 6:35pm Roundtable One (focus on Jerusalem) Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Director of Gender Studies, Mada Al-Carmel o Joseph Schechla, Coordinator, Habitat International Coalition's Housing and Land Rights Network o Walid Atallah, Chairperson, Department of Humanities, Bethlehem o Bernard Sabella, Professor of Sociology, Bethlehem o Kutaybah Odeh, Bustan Cultural Center Silwan 6:35pm - 7:45pm Reception
Day Two Date: Monday, 14 December 2015 : 8:30am 5:30pm Location: Institute of Law at Birzeit, Annex, Room 243, Birzeit, Birzeit, Palestine 8:30am - 9:00am Registration & Coffee 9:00am - 9:30am Opening Remarks Speakers: o Ghassan Faramand, Director, Institute of Law, Birzeit o Abdel Latif Abu Hijla, President, Birzeit 9:30am - 10:15am Keynote Addresses o Anti-Colonial Legalities: Tactics & Strategy o Settler Colonialism in Relation to Other Forms of Colonialism: Some Strategic Implications Speakers: o John Reynolds, Lecturer, Department of Law, Maynooth o Patrick Wolfe, ARC Australian Research Fellow and Charles La Trobe Research Fellow, La Trobe 10:15am - 11:45am Roundtable Two: Legal Strategies o Noura Erakat, Assistant Professor, George Mason o Raji Sourani, Director, Palestinian Center for Human Rights-Gaza o Reem Al Botmeh, Senior Researcher, Institute of Law at Birzeit o Michael Kearney, Lecturer in International Law, Sussex o Mudar Kassis, Professor of Philosophy and Director of Human Rights and Democracy MA Program, Birzeit 11:45am - 12:00pm Coffee Break 12:00pm - 1:00pm Roundtable Three: Diplomatic Strategies o Ghada Madbouh, Professor of Political Science, Birzeit
o Camille Mansour, Senior Researcher, Institute of Palestine Studies o Majed Bamya, Director International Treaties' Department Multilateral Relations Sector Ministry of Foreign Affairs o Nadim Rouhana, Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Director of Mada al Carmel o Vijay Prashad, Professor of International Studies, Trinity College 1:00pm - 2:15pm Lunch 2:15pm - 3:45pm Roundtable Four: Economic & Popular Resistance o Samia Botmeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Institute of Women s Studies, Birzeit o Sobhi Samour, Researcher, MAS-Palestine o Linda Tabar, Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies, Trinity College o Nora Lester Murad, Co-Founder, Aid Watch o Jamal Jumaa, Coordinator, Stop the Wall Campaign 3:45pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break 4:00pm - 5:30pm Roundtable Five: International Solidarity o Omar Barghouti, Co-Founder, BDS Movement o Haidar Eid, Associate Professor, Al-Aqsa, Gaza o Cecilia Baeza, Professor at the Institute of International Relations of the PUC-São Paulo, the Catholic Pontifical of São Paulo o Kristian Davis Bailey, Journalist and Activist, Black Lives Matter o Ingrid Jaradat, International Advocacy Consultant, BDS Movement
Day Three Date: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 : 10am 215pm Location: Al Ein Hotel, Nazareth 10:00am - 10:30am 10:30am 12:00pm Opening Remarks Roundtable Six: Struggle from Within o Yousef Jabareen, Joint Arab List o Hanin Zoabi, Joint Arab List o Raef Zreik, Lecturer, Carmel Academic Center o Huda Abu-Obeid, Human Rights Activist Speaker o Nadim Rouhana, Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies, Fletcher School, Director of Mada al Carmel o Suhad Bishara, Senior Attorney and the Head of the Land and Planning Unit, Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel 12:00pm 13:30 Lunch Break 13: 30pm 15:00pm Roundtable Seven: Restoring Unity, Restoring Rights Jamil Dakwar, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program (HRP) o Lisa Taraki, Professor of Sociology and Vice-President of Community Affairs, Birzeit o Basel Ghattas, Joint Arab List o Loubna Qoutami, Ph.D candidate, Department of Ethnic Studies at of California, Riverside and Member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) o Dalia Malki, Researcher, Institute of Law at Birzeit o Mohammad Matter, Youth Organizer, Gaza