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2013 كتاب | آب
آفاق الدولة المدنية بعد الانتفاضات العربية من إعداد طارق متري, عطالله السليم, عماد الحوت, رضوان السيد, محمد علي مقّلد, و آخرون
 

Working Paper | August 2013
Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa: Between an Arab Winter and the Arab Spring by Shaden Khallaf
The Middle East and North Africa region has been rife with volatility and turmoil for decades due to inter-State conflict, military occupation, intra-State power struggles, international sanctions, strained economic systems, social transformations, high population growth, varying illiteracy rates, high unemployment and underemployment, poverty, gender inequalities, extremism, and an overarching lack of transparency in dealing with these daunting challenges...

Research Report | June 2013
Arab States and UN Human Rights Mechanisms by Fateh Azzam
The revolts that have rocked the Arab region in 2011 have focused on demands for dignity, social and economic justice, and political freedoms. As the protests unfolded and spread from one country to another, their chants gained remarkable consistency in their rejection of unaccountable leadership and exclusionary economic and development policies that had failed for decades. The revolts were a wake-up call to all those concerned with politics and development in the region, that development can no longer be...

موجز سياسات | حزيران 2013
ردود الفعل اللبنانية المتناقضة حيال قضية اللاجئين  السوريين في لبنان تشمل الإجهاد، والضيافة، والاستياء من إعداد منى كريستوفرسن وكاثرين ثورليفسون
ينظر موجز السياسات هذا في تأثير النزوح القسري للسوريني إلى لبنان وردود الفعل عليه، ويستند إلى عمل ميداني في 1 .يؤدّي تدفّق الالجئني بأعداد قرية ببنني السنية، وإلى استطالع آراء على صعيد البالد شمل عيّنة متثيلية من ٩٠٠ شخص كبيرة إلى تزايد املنافسة على فرص العمل النادرة في القطاع غير النظامي. يستفيد الالجئون السوريون من املساعدات واألجور املتدنّية مجتمعني، ما يتسبّ ب، عن غير قصد، بخسارة اللبنانيني األكثر فقراً على وجه التحديد...

Research Study | June 2013
Irish Peacekeeping in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) A Historical, Political, and Socio-Cultural Study by Rita Sakr
This study explores Irish peacekeeping within UNIFIL, since 1978 through the expanded UNIFIL after its formation in the aftermath of the 2006 Lebanon war, from historical, social, political, and cultural perspectives. The methodological approach relies mainly on interviews with a number of retired and active members of the Irish Defence Forces, academics, and journalists as well as primary and secondary sources including military...

Policy Brief | June 2013
Lebanese Contradictory Responses to  Syrian Refugees Include Stress, Hospitality, Resentment by Mona Christophersen and Cathrine Thorleifsson
​This policy brief examines both impact of and responses to Syrian forced displacement in Lebanon and is based on fieldwork in the Sunni-village of Bebnine and a national opinion poll with a representative sample of 900.1 The mass influx of refugees is causing increased competition for scarce jobs in the informal sector. The Syrian refugees can combine aid assistance with below-average wages. As an unintended consequence...

Working Paper | May 2013
Emerging Powers and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Case of Brazil and Venezuela by Guy Burton
What are the prospects of new rising powers to play a role in the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? At present the possibility of direct talks leading to a final settlement of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians looks far from promising. Negotiations between the two sides have been at a standstill since September 2010, when the two sides briefly met under US sponsorship. Expectations had been high that the US would once again take a leading...

Background Paper | March 2013
“Nabiha 5”: A Kuwaiti Youth Movement for Political Reform by F. Gregory Gause III
Among Arab states Kuwait is a leader in terms of political freedoms and the importance of its civil society organizations. Thus it should not be surprising that one of the few successful Arab youth movements advocating political reform should have arisen in the country. The success of the “Nabiha 5” movement (Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic for “we want it to be five”) in bringing about the change in the Kuwaiti electoral system from a 25 district to a 5 district configuration certainly...

Working Paper | March 2013
Lebanon: The Legacy of Sectarian Consociationalism and the Transition to a Fully-Fledged Democracy by Samir Makdisi and Youssef El-Khalil
Since independence in 1943 Lebanon’s political system has been based on a power sharing arrangement among its religious communities. Referred to as a consociational democracy, it was embedded in an unwritten national pact by the leaders of the independence movement which specified the division of parliamentary seats among the Christian and Muslim communities on the basis of a six to five ratio in favor of the Christian community.3...

ملخص نقاش | شباط 2013 
الطاولة المستديرة الثانية لـ"معهد عصام فارس" حول "الدولة المدنية" و"الربيع العربي
استكمل "معهد عصام فارس للسياسات العامة والشؤون الدولية" ما بدأه من بحث في مفهوم "الدولة المدنية"، خصوصاً بعد تطورات طاولت أكثر من بلد عربي. ولهذا الهدف، كان المعهد قد نظّم، في أيلول )سبتمبر( الماضي، طاولة مستديرة جمعت أكاديميين وباحثين وعاملين في الشأن العام، في محاولة لوضع أسس علمية لهذا المفهوم الذي قد يبدو إشكالياً وحديثاً في التداول العربي. والحاجة لبحث هذا المفهوم تزداد بعد جدل مستمر في بعض الدول، حول مواد معينة من الدستور تتعلق بدور الدين في الحياة العامة وما إذا كانت الشريعة مصدراً...