REFUGEES IN LEBANON: SETTING A RESEARCH & ADVOCACY AGENDA

16 July 2015
Beirut
On 16 July, 2015, The Arab Studies sponsored the first annual workshop for the Refugees and Migrants Project in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference “Refugees in Lebanon: Setting a Research and Advocacy Agenda," was the first in a series of Country Assessment Roundtables the project aims to accomplish. This project seeks to assess the relationship between states and their residents as well as engendering new discussions about refugees and migrants in the Middle East. “Refugees in Lebanon” focused on refugees, including stateless persons, and internally displaced persons (IDPs), but not on migrants. It aimed to propose a set of critical research questions and/or components of advocacy initiatives for scholars, agencies, organizations, think tanks, and institutions concerned with refugee populations in Lebanon. This report details the proceedings that took place throughout the conference, bringing together a wide array of practitioners and scholars based both within and beyond the region. The cross-cutting theme of the conference was to encourage scholarly production, advocacy efforts, and political awareness concerning transitory populations across the Middle East. It aims to address pertinent questions regarding applicable law, the socio-political status of these communities, as well as the political initiatives necessary to address their pressing needs.
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Highlights

Organizers
Noura Erakat
Omar Dahi

Speakers
Noura Erakat
Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes

Ziad Abdul Samad
NGOs and Refugees

Rabih Salah
Housing and Property

Moe Ali Nayel
Humanitarianism and Corruption

Sari Hanafi
National Governance & Self-Governance

Fouad Fouad
Public and Medical Health

Jomanah Merhey
Gender-Based Violence

Wafa Al Yasir
Palestinian Refugees & Refugees from Syria

Firas Talhouk
Durable Solutions, Protection Gaps, and International Institutions

Coline Grunblatt
Durable Solutions, Protection Gaps, and International Institutions

Perla Issa
From Objects to Subjects: Refugees Producing Knowledge on Refugees

Mona Fawwaz
Urban Planning and Urban Refugees

Rabih Shibli
Housing and Property

Mahmoud Haidar
Policy-making and Policy Vacuums in Lebanon

Samir Khoury
​Labor and the Right to Work