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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...

UN-Related Publication | January 2013
Benghazi so Far: A View from Inside the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) by Georges Nasr
I joined the UN Support Mission in Libya, known by its acronym UNSMIL, in early 2012 as Head of Office in Benghazi. Established by Security Council resolution 2009, the Mission’s mandate is to support Libya’s democratic transition by facilitating political dialogue and delivering targeted technical support in the areas of electoral assistance, constitution drafting, human rights, transitional justice and public security. UNSMIL also has a mandate to...

Lecture | December 2012
International Intervention in Lebanon and Beyond by Maureen Ali
As part of its United Nations and the Arab World Program, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs initiated a series of panels and lectures entitled, “International Intervention in Lebanon and Beyond.” The series analyzes the role played by international institutions in conflict and post-conflict zones in the region and seeks to contextualize military, civilian and humanitarian stands that are often interlinked or sometimes so blurred as to obscure the reality on the ground...

Interview | October 2012
Insight into the UN in Libya
Dr. Tarek Mitri, Senior Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), on October 15th 2012, began his appointment as the Special Representative for the Secretary-General at the United Nations, and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL). Dr. Mitri will be spending the year in this capacity, working closely with the Libyan government and civil society, aiding the process of institution building and security stabilization, as well as work with international actors playing a role in...

Working Paper | August 2012
 The Politics of International Justice  – US Policy and the Legitimacy of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by John Cerone
Assessing the state of US policy toward international criminal courts is a complex, if not impossible, undertaking. Indeed, there is no coherent U.S. policy on international criminal courts generally. This is attributable on the one hand to the multifaceted nature of international criminal courts, and on the other to the fact that U.S. policy is an amalgamation of diverse views reduced in some cases to written form, which is itself subject to...

Working Paper | May 2012
Women’s Citizenship Rights in Lebanon by Maya W. Mansour and Sarah G. Abou Aad
This paper tackles citizenship rights of Lebanese women married to foreigners, from an international human rights perspective at first, as consecrated over and over by multiple conventions and treaties; to move afterwards to a more practical approach in exposing the provisions of the Lebanese Constitution, the nationality law and regulations, while pointing out the consequences and challenges in addition to the movements of the civil society facing such trials. The analysis used in...

Tobacco Control Research #2 | March 2012
A Smoke Free Campus: Lessons Learned from AUB by the AUB Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB-TCRG)
Following the adoption of a No Smoking Policy (NSP) by the American University of Beirut (AUB), the vast majority (90%) of undergraduate and graduate students surveyed, and over a third (36%)of them who smoked were satisfied with the new policy; with a full compliance (respecting the designated smoking areas) rate of 73% among the smokers surveyed. In addition, 1 in 6 smokers reported receiving a warning ticket when smoking in nondesignated areas. And, 20%...

Policy Series: Tobacco Control Research #1 | March 2012
The Transnational Tobacco Industry Effectively Hampers Tobacco Control Policy-Making in Lebanon by the AUB Tobacco Control Research Group (AUB-TCRG)
Lebanon is still considered one of the weakest countries in the region with regards to regulating tobacco use, despite having ratified the World Health Organisation’s Framework convention on Tobacco Control in 2005. Lebanon has failed numerous attempts to introduce a national tobacco control policy, including banning smoking in closed public areas, banning advertising and sponsorship, and...

Working Paper Series #7 | February 2012
The Dynamics of Policy Innovation and Diffusion in the Gulf Cooperation Council:  A Case Study of Three Specialized Cities by Hiba Khodr
This study examines a recent phenomenon in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) referred to as Specialized Cities (SC). A Specialized City is a “city in-the-city” that has the main purpose of implementing innovations in selected policy areas, in addition to being a new town. This paper goes beyond describing the spread of SC in the Arab Gulf region to answer to a broader question: what motivates a GCC country to adopt...

2011 ملخص تنفيذي | تشرين الثاني
​ جيل التغيير: واقع الشباب العربي بين التطلعات والتحديات | ملخص تنفيذي
​من إعداد رامي خوري, شاهدة أظفر, تشارلز حرب, ناصر ياسين, موسى شتيوي, يزن دخقان, عبلة غوجاندي, دينا شحاته, بربارا ابراهيم, غريغوري غاوسي, كريستين أسعد, جاد مالكي, منيرة حب الله, مارك ليفين, وعد ابراهيم, رودا ليغ, إيفانا تشالمرز, كارين ابي صعب, ساره طياره, جو خليل, زينه صواف, كارين علاف, دايان سنغرمان, نيكولا بل, شيرين الفقي, لوكاس نيلسن, أيمن زهري, محمد يونس, أحمد يونس, ليه بايبس, تيم جاكوبي, الين قطب, سايسي فولك, زافيريس تزاناتوس, و كامل نابلسي

The brief of this qualitative exploratory study was to conduct targeted interviews with female employers of migrant domestic workers, psychiatrists, lawyers and institutional stakeholders in Lebanon.

This report will provide a description of the assessment conducted by IMC’s Mental Health and Psychosocial team in the region of Wadi Khaled following the displacement of Syrians into the northern villages between the Lebanese-Syrian borders as a result of the internal conflic

Working Paper Series #3 | July 2010 Describing the Lebanese Youth:  A National and Psycho-Social SurveyCharles Harb The present research investigates socio-demographic, socio-cultural and social-psychological profiles of a representative sample of Lebanese youth. The study thus provides a first assessment of youth in Lebanon, with a clear hope to replicate this research in other parts of the Arab world. This report does not aim to provide a comprehensive model testing between levels of analyses, but rather focuses on a more descriptive profiling of such variables in a way that may be useful to...

Information on the health service in Lebanon including availability of access and availability of drugs and treatment. Information on treatment of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, post traumatic syndrome, including psychiatric treatment.

IFI Paper | January 2009 UNIFIL II: Emerging and Evolving European  Engagement in Lebanon and the Middle EastKarim Makdisi, Timur Göksel, Hans Bastian Hauck, and Stuart Reigeluth There has been a long-standing debate on the merits and drawbacks of UNIFIL, the UN “interim” peacekeeping operation established by UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 425 and 426 in the aftermath of Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, this debate intensified as UNIFIL’s original mandate was made more “robust” by UNSC Resolution 1701, which marked a new phase of UN peacekeeping...

The Assessment of Psychosocial Needs of Iraqis Displaced in Jordan and Lebanon was conducted between November 2007 and January 2008, with the aim to assess the mental health and psychosocial needs of Iraqis displaced in Jordan and Lebanon, to investigate the provision of servi

This study was envisioned by KAFA in partnership with Save the Children Sweden following the encounter with several child sexual abuse victims at the end of the July 2006 war.

This paper explores some faces of globalization by using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction (psychological and emotional as well as biological) and the activities and attitudes of care that give moral resources for response to systemic tragedy, not only fo

A committee constituted of stakeholders in both KRC and EL-NADIM visited some villages in south Lebanon between September 4th & 7th, 2006. This post-war exploration tour extended to Marjeyoun, Tyr & Bint Jbeil.

Response International (RI) undertook a comprehensive assessment of mental health needs within the refugee camps and larger “gatherings”.