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October typically marks the peak of the olive harvest season in Lebanon, a time when families across the south come together to harvest, mill, press, and refine olives into olive oil. Yet, this year, for many residents of South Lebanon, October has become a painful reminder of loss: this year is..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

In this conversation, Jack Goldstone addresses the troubled transition after the 2020 election, and the potential turbulence during the next two years. He also addresses implications for US Democracy as well as US “exceptionalism.”

Recent research on revolutions has thus grappled with why revolutions turn violent, whether such violence helps or hinders the success of revolutionary movements, and how international interventions shape revolutionary episodes. Theoretical work on revolution and social protest has engaged deepl..

In the past four days, Israel has killed three young Palestinian boys in Gaza raising the death toll to 139 since Palestinians began the Great Return March on 30 March 2018. The renewed escalations follow Israel sealing of Kerem Shalom, the only commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip and Israeli ..

Despite objections from human rights organizations in Morocco and France, on 23 June 2015, the National French Assembly adopted a bill that requires judges to refer legal complaints regarding criminal acts committed in Morocco to Moroccan ..

[The following article was originally published on Tadween Publishing`s blog.&..

Last week at the UN General Assembly, Barack Obama, President of the world`s most powerful country, exalted the United Nations and the ideals upon which it was built. Namely, that 

"people can resolve their differences peacefully, that diplomacy can take the place of ..

In early August 2012, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to renew the United Nations statehood bid in September:

"Even if this step conflicts with other parties` interests … [W]e will not step back. . . . Israel neither halted settlement activities,..

This brief report provides information related to three recent developments in international law related to Israel and Palestine: 

1. The International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s decision as to whether Palestine qualifies as a state for purposes of accepting the co..

The resurgence of mass demonstrations in Egypt, in Tahrir Square and beyond, has raised many question marks in the minds of outside observers about what has often been described as “Egypt’s democratic transition.” Many question how Egypt will be able to advance its so-called journey toward democ..

“Reports come and go. This is one of the tragic truths of the literature of human rights violations. Hard-working researchers scour the rubble of war zones for fragments of evidence — of war crimes, crimes against humanity, other violations of life and freedom — only to watch their findings sink..

The Goldstone Report gained its prominence because of its UN auspices and the high credibility of Richard Goldstone as the Chair of the Fact Finding Mission appointed by the Human Rights Council. Other reputable inquiries (John Dugard’s parallel mission set up by the Arab League, Amnesty Interna..

On December 27, 2008, Israel began aerial strikes on the Gaza Strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians, three-quarters of whom are refugees, who could not, because of Gaza’s sealed borders, become refugees of war. Within a week, amidst the rubble of hospitals, mosques, government ministries, fact..

The political dymamics surrounding the report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (commonly known as the Goldstone Report) provide a number of interesting insights into the recent evolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ..

While the impact of Justice Goldstone’s op-ed on accountability and justice remains to be seen, one thing has already been made clear: his contentious and vague editorial has worked to place Israel’s Winter 2008/09 offensive back on center stage. Like Israel’s..

On Friday April 1st, justice Richard Goldstone wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post that seemingly retracts his report ..

On Monday March 28th, the Stanford International Law Society hosted a debate on the legacy of the Goldstone report and the larger application of international law to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict featuring Just..

On the evening of March 24, the board of directors of University of California – Hastings College of the Law held an emergency meeting that lasted until midnight. The putative emergency was a two-..

As tensions between Israel and Hamas build in the wake of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza this week that killed eight and renewed rocket fire, the Goldstone Report, the landmark investigation into war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, remains the subj..

On Tuesday September 21^st, the Human Rights Council released an advance version of its report on the Independent Expert Commission created to assess the..