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Twenty Five Years since Oslo: Contemporary Forms of Governance, Control and Resistance 
in Israel and Palestine

Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Oslo process, it seems that the trajectories of conflict and peace between Israel and Palestinians are entering a new phase. The Trump “Peace to Prosperity” plan and Israel’s intention to go forward with the annexation of parts of the occupied territories cast serious doubt on the possibility of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the bases of mutual agreement. However, the working hypothesis of this workshop is that the reality on the ground in the last two decades suggests that on the micro-level, state apparatuses, organizations and individuals have been adopting novel forms of governance, control and resistance in the occupied territories long before these current events. In this reality, the occupation is developing towards not only the stabilization and entrenchment of Israel's forced control over the Palestinians, but also towards the normalization of such control as an acceptable reality that “works” on the ground. In this developing reality, novel practices, arrangements and forms of governance and control constantly emerge on different social and spatial scales, all of which merit attention as an actual and developing base-constellation for any future political prospects..

Program

Wednesday, July 22, 16:00 – 17:30: Recording is available here
Realities on the ground: governance, control and resistance

Chair: Prof. Eli Salzberger, Head of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa.

Dr. Rottem Rosenberg Rubins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions.
From a state of exception to hyper-legality: Israeli counterterrorism law in the post-two-state era.

Dr. Rami Nasrallah, IPCC – International Peace and Cooperation Center, Jerusalem.
East Jerusalem: Occupation, urban resilience and the illusion of sovereignty.

Dr. Oren Shlomo, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions; The Open University of Israel.
From Contested Sovereignty to urban politics? Palestinian protest and urban right claiming in post-Oslo East Jerusalem.

Monday, July 27, 16:00 – 17:30: Recording is available here
Emerging forms of governance, control and resistance

Chair: Prof. Nurit Kliot, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa.

Prof. Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa. Non-Presenting Co-Author Quamar Mishirqi-Assad 
Rule and Resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Legal Geographical Analysis of the Transformation of the Shafa-Yatta شفا يطّا Region Between 1967 and 2000 as a Test Case

Dr. Yael Berda, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University.
Citizenship as a mobility regime: a new paradigm for security – equal rights and freedom of movement

Amal Zuabi, coordinator, area C., Bimkom – planners for planning rights
Techniques of preventing development: Eliminating the law and creating novel situations that aim at displacement

Wednesday, July 29, 16:00 – 17:30: Recording is availabale here
Resistance and future paths to political change

Chair: Dr. Itamar Mann, PI at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa.

Adv. Sari Bashi, Human rights lawyer, writer, analyst at independent consultant.
Demanding accountability from the regime you wish to topple?

Samer Abdelrazzak Sinijlawi, Chairman, Jerusalem Development Fund.
Is the one state solution emerging among Palestinians? Why, when and how will it be the dominant and majority choice?

Dr. Shaul Arieli, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and the Hebrew University
Annexation and its impact on Israel

Prof. As'ad Ghanem, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa.
The Israeli third republic: The consolidation of the Israeli right dominant bloc system and the prospects for the future of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Wednesday, July 29, 17:30-19:00:
Future prospects and political horizons for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Chair: Prof. Deborah Shmueli, PI at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions,Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa.

Prof. Gad Barzilai, PI at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions,Faculty of Law, University of Haifa.
The feasibility and construction of confederate and federal solutions.

Prof. Efraim Inbar, President, Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
Conflict management in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Prof. Rassem Khamaisi, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Haifa.
From back-to-back to face-to-face: Spatial development of Israel/Palestine.

Dr. Itamar Mann, PI at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa.
Concluding remarks.

See here for short biographies of participants

organizers:
Dr. Rottem Rosenberg Rubins (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), and Dr. Oren Shlomo (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

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