| Title | 4. Can Palestinians Regain the Initiative for Ending the Occupation? |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Kamel Hawwash(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0345.05 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0345/chapters/10.11647/obp.0345.05 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Kamel Hawwash |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2023-06-26 |
| Long abstract | In this chapter I describe the work of the Palestine Strategy Study Group (PSSG). I received an invitation to a workshop joining a group of Palestinians from the West Bank and the Diaspora at the Dead Sea, Jordan. The approach came from an International Peace and Security think-tank, the Oxford Research Group (ORG), based in London. The approach seemed interesting because the proposal was to get together a group of Palestinian politicians, academics, businessmen and activists from different political backgrounds and from different regions of the world. Prior to this most initiatives were about ‘dialogue’ between Palestinians and Israelis and have singularly failed to produce a positive outcome. The title of the project was ‘Regaining the Initiative: Exploring Palestinian Strategic Options’. |
| Page range | pp. 55–68 |
| Print length | 14 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 1 illustration |
Kamel Hawwash, who gave the fourth Hurndall Memorial Lecture in 2008, is a British-Palestinian Professor of Engineering based at the University of Birmingham, originally from Jerusalem. He is Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), a founding member of the British Palestinian Council (BPC) and a founding member of the National Campaign for Rebuilding the PLO.