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Summary | September 2012
The Question of the 'Civil State': An Arab Public Policy Roundtable Discussion in Light of the Arab Uprisings
On September 4, 2012, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) convened a roundtable discussion on the 'Civil State'. A highly topical subject due to recent Arab uprisings, IFI and the participants hoped that ideas tabled during the discussion would generate further research and working papers. It was also hoped that the discussion could provide the inspiration for a more...

Working Paper | September 2012
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL): International Justice Dissected by Omar Nashabe
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) was created by the UN Security Council in 2007 to prosecute those responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and others in 2005. It has been controversial since its inception, with supporters claiming its very creation would ensure impunity. This paper offers a critique of the history, structure and procedures of the international criminal investigation and the establishment of the STL. Its central...

2012 ملخص |  أيلول
"​طاولة مستديرة حول السياسات العامة العربية نظمها معهد عصام فارس: إشكاليات "الدولة المدنية" في ظل "الربيع العربي
دعا معهد عصام فارس للسياسات العامة و الشؤون الدولية في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت ، إلى "طاولة  مستديرة حول السياسات العامة العربية

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...

Summary Booklet | June 2012 Arab Uprisings Symposium Summary Critically Assessing the Changing Landscape of Power and Players IFI by Maureen Ali This symposium is part of the AUB-wide Arab Uprisings Research Initiative, which was launched and is supported by the Office of the Provost and managed by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs. AUB has invited over twenty scholars from the Arab world and abroad to this Symposium to discuss critical themes that have emerged to date, and to help shape our future research agenda. The symposium will highlight shifting power...

Author: Clairissa RadykoLebanese Emigration Research Center   SYNOPSIS: The author analyzes American migration policy toward Lebanon as it changed in tandem with the events that have unfolded in Lebanon since 1975 in order to understand what impact each factor played in shaping actual Lebanese migration to the United States. Certain events endogenous to Lebanon have served as push factors in the course of Lebanese migration to the United States, but American immigration policy has played, as well, a prominent role in determining the levels of actual migration. The result of these mutual...

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...

يعرض هذا الكتيّب الاصلاحات التي تتبناها الحملة المدنية للاصلاح الانتخابي وتطالب باعتمادها في اي قانون انتخابي جديد لما يتناسب والمعايير الدولية لديمقراطية الانتخاباتكالنظام النسبي، الدوائر الانتخابية المتوسطة ، الكوتا النسائية، ، اعتماد هيئة مستقلة لادارة الانتخابات، اقتراع غير المقيمين، خفض سن الاقتراع والترشح، ضمان سؤية الاقتراع، تنظيم الاعلام والاعلان الانتخابي،الانفاق الانتخابي

القانون الانتخابي الذي اعدّته الحملة المدنية للاصلاح الانتخابي  للانتخابات النيابية القادمة والذي يشمل جميع الاصلاحات التي تطالب بها اهمها القانون النسبي، تقسيم الدوائر مع الخرائط، الكوتا النسائية، الهيئة المستقلة لادارة الانتخابات، البطاقات الطبوعة سلفاً اضافة الى سلّة متكاملة من الاصلاحات

قانون الهيئة المستقلة المنظمة للانتخابات المقترح من قبل الحملة المدنية للاصلاح الانتخابي اعضاؤها، مدّة ولايتها، افسامها، قواعد عملها، ماليتها، قرارتها   وجميع التفاصيل الخاصة بآلية تشكيلها،وعملها

   This study targeted the prisons in South Lebanon within the provinces of Tyre (Tyre prison) and Nabatiye (Nabatiye and Tebnin prisons). Its human and material limits were wide as it included most of the inmates in the three prisons and their families- whether living in or outside the south (Beirut, Baalabek, and Zahle) and remaining Lebanese regions. The main target was to detect and acquire knowledge about the social, educational, medical and economic needs of these families, to follow them up, and shed light on them through a program on which all public and private community stakeholders...

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%...

Mada, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency through the Regional Human Rights Peace building Fund is happy to present you the study: “The Voice of Akkari Youth: Calling for a Better Tomorrow” The study aims to provide an insight into the reality of young man and women living in the marginalized region of Akkar, the challenges they face in their daily life and what they need to be able to reach their full potential. This document is a helpful tool for any donors, development or governmental actors, who wish to work on youth issues in Akkar. The study addresses 5 key areas of...

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...

2012 سلسلة أوراق عمل #6 | شباط
​بحث في تأثير مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية من إعداد زياد حافظ
هدف البحث هو إبراز دور مركز الدراسات العربية في صياغة الخطاب القومي المعاصر وقياس قدر اإلمكان تأثيره على الفكر القومي العربي المعاصر وتحديد أهداف محددة للعمل القومي العربي. من جهة أخرى سيحاول البحث توضيح دور المركز في إنشاء مؤسسات على الصعيد القومي ساهمت وما زالت في توجيه مسار العمل القومي
 

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...

Link to orginial post: http://www.helem.net/node/188 Written by: Doctor Wahid Al Farchichi: Law Professor at the Tunisian University, Professor Nizar Saghiyeh: Lawyer and Independant Law Researcher Contents: The law and homosexuality A survey and an analytical study of the legislation of most Arab countries  Part one: The discrepancies in the Arab legislations in the criminalization of the homosexual act Part two: The disparities of the sanctions for the homosexual acts in the Arab legislations  Conclusion Law and homosexuality: any ways for reconciliation?  List of references Homosexuals in...

Between May and June 2012, DRC field teams surveyed 771 households – 432 in Tripoli and 339 in the Akkar region.

This study, supported by UNFPA, assessed the reproductive health and gender-based violence among displaced Syrian women in Lebanon between July and September 2012.

The research will provide better understanding on the legislations and laws that authorities are using to control or oppress any movement or any type of activism on gender and sexuality issues in JORDAN.