Palestinian refugees and the search for peace
Posted on 5 November 2009
Karen Koning AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, will deliver this year's El Hassan bin Talal Annual Lecture in Post-war Reconstruction and Development at the University of York.
She will use her lecture to review the conditions in which Palestinian refugees live and discuss the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the implications for human rights and international law.
Ms AbuZayd will offer her assessment of the trends of the peace process to date and the prospects for a negotiated settlement in the light of recent developments in the region. She will also raise questions about the place of the refugee issue in the search for peace.
The Commissioner-General has led UNRWA since 2000. From her base in Gaza, she helps to oversee education, health, social services and micro-enterprise programmes for 4.6 million Palestinian refugees.
This is the second annual lecture in a series launched last year by Prince El Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan and hosted by the University’s Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit.
Admission to the lecture, on 6 November, is by free ticket only available from the University of York Communications Office on (01904) 432622 or publiclectures@york.ac.uk.
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The Post-war
Reconstruction and Development Unit is dedicated to the study of war-torn
societies and their recovery and linking theory with practice. In 2009 staff members have launched research initiatives
across a range of areas in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon,
Jordan, Nepal and the Philippines among others.
- More information about the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency can be found at www.un.org/unrwa/.
- Details of the wide variety of public lectures on a range of subjects hosted by the University are available at www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/public-lectures/.
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