Contents: Foreword by Hilal Khashan, American University of Beirut; Introduction: Lebanon's Confessional Structure and Palestinian; The Refugees, Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; Regional Actors and Peace with Israel; Integration, Repatriation or Resettlement?; The Palestinian Factor in the Lebanese Conflict; Obstacles to Integration and Resettlement; Methodological Criteria: Studying Immigration, Discrimination and Integration; Measuring Attitudes toward Immigration and Immigrants; The Research Method; Basic Political Views of Palestinians; The Socio-Economic Integration of...

This book, the third in the series Studies in Peace Politics in the Middle East, is an expert assessment on what went wrong with the Oslo peace process - a process that began in euphoria and degenerated into disaster. The contributors provide a wide-ranging, albeit very different, retrospective of the pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian peace, and analysis of how negotiations should best proceed from here on. Contributors include: Mustafa Abu Sway, Professor and Director of the Islamic Research Center, Al Quds University, an eminent authority on the Islamic position on the Arab-Israeli conflict;...

Distinguished academic and practitioner contributors from the Middle East, Europe and the US present a range of social science oriented options to get the peace process back on track. Using the history of the last half century of talks and negotiations, and contributor experience in negotiations, suggestions, proposals and formulas are presented to the contending parties that would develop a greater level of mutual empathy, understanding and trust that is required to jump-start the stalled peace talks into sincere and serious negotiations needed to achieve a comprehensive, lasting Middle East...

Despite major political advances in the Middle East, there has been little progress on the refugee problem. This is because of official Palestinian public positions, other Arab countries' approach to the right of return of all Palestinian refugees, and the contrasting Israeli public policy of not allowing any refugees to return to Israel. Such conflicting approaches can never resolve this difficult and longstanding humanitarian problem. By working collectively, the world's leading experts from Arab countries, the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Europe and the United States have developed a...

Despite major political advances in the Middle East, there has been little progress on the refugee problem. This is because of official Palestinian public positions, other Arab countries' approach to the right of return of all Palestinian refugees, and the contrasting Israeli public policy of not allowing any refugees to return to Israel. Such conflicting approaches can never resolve this difficult and longstanding humanitarian problem. By working collectively, the world's leading experts from Arab countries, the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Europe and the United States have developed a...