Palestinian refugees the right of return

Humanitarian diplomacy practitioners and their craft

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi -- Introduction / Larry Minear and Hazel Smith -- The craft of humanitarian diplomacy / Larry Minear -- Humanitarian diplomacy : theory and practice / Hazel Smith -- Protecting Palestinian refugees : the UNRWA experience / D. Sena Wijewardane -- Negotiating for results in the Lebanon / André Roberfroid -- Negotiating the legitimacy of humanitarian action in Iraq / Claudia Rodriguez -- NGOs break the Cold War impasse in Cambodia / Brian Walker -- Negotiating with the Taliban / Antonio Donini -- Principled humanitarian action in the East Timor crisis / Toni Pfanner -- Steep learning curves in the DPRK / David Morton -- Steering through insurgencies in Nepal / Erika Joergensen -- Nurturing humanitarian space in Sudan / Masood Hyder -- "Military humanitarians" in Liberia / 'Funmi Olonisakin -- Negotiating the release and rehabilitation of child soldiers in Sierra Leone / Omawale Omawale -- Blurring of mandates in Somalia / Karin von Hippel -- Protection through diplomacy in Colombia / Lizzie Brock -- The Balkans : the limits of humanitarian action / Nicholas Morris.…”

Local politics and contemporary transformations in the Arab world governance beyond the center

Table of Contents: “…Bardawil -- Bringing the local back in : local politics between informalization and mobilization in an age of transformation in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Negotiating (informal) institutional change : understanding local politics in Jordan / Malika Bouziane -- Morocco between decentralization and recentralization : encountering the state in the useless Morocco / Anja Hoffmann -- Revisiting politics in spaces beyond the centre : the case of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Hala Caroline Abou-Zaki -- Political participation in Algeria beyond the polling stations : insights from Tizi-Ouzou / Naoual Belakhdar -- Tribes, revolution, and political culture in the Cyrenaica region of Libya / Thomas Hüsken -- Conclusion / Cilja Harders, Anja Hoffmann, Malika Bouziane…”

The refugee crisis and religion secularism, security and hospitality in question

Table of Contents: “…Augustine, Pope Francis and the refugee crisis / Mariano Barbato -- The refugee experience as existential exile : hospitality as a spiritual and political response / Jean-Marie Carriere -- A right to neighbourhood : re-thinking Islamic narratives and practices of hospitality in a sedentarist world / Tahir Zaman -- The limits of hospitality : finding space for faith / Sadia Kidwai -- Religious justifications for an overlapping consensus on Palestinian refugees' human rights : at intersection of faith, gender, sexuality and asylum / Claudia Baumgart-Ochse -- The faith-gender-asylum nexus : an intersectionalist analysis of representations of the "refugee crisis" / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh -- Loving God vs. wrathful God: Religion and LGBT forced migration / Max Niedzwiecki and Siobhan McGuirk…”

1948 a history of the first Arab-Israeli war by Morris, Benny 1948-