Lebanon

Mohammad Sammak

Mohammad Sammak is Secretary General of the Committee for Islamic-Christian Dialogue. He has academic training in Political Science and Islamic Thought. He is also counsellor to the Mufti of Lebanon. Highly involved in inter-confessional dialogue, he has authored several books on the subject, including Islam and the Conflict of Civilizations, Introduction to Christian-Muslim Dialogue, and Living together in Christianity and Islam. 

Dima de Clerck

Dima de Clerck is a PhD candidate in History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She also holds an MBA, and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. Her thesis subject is the sectarian memories of Christians and Druze in post-war Lebanon. She is also a researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient and the author of several published and forthcoming articles.

Jamil Mouawad

Jamil Mouawad is a PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has an MA and MRes from Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

Marie-Noëlle AbiYaghi

Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her dissertation tackles the issue of alternative globalisation activists and movements in Lebanon. She is also a research associate at Institut Francais du Proche-Orient. 

Ahmad Beydoun

A native of South Lebanon and leftist intellectual in the pre-war period, Ahmad Beydoun holds a doctorate from the Sorbonne and taught sociology at the Lebanese University. He has authored a dozen remarkable books on Lebanese historiography, its political system, its civil war and the quest for a Lebanese national identity. He is among the most respected historians and sociologists in his country.

Liliane Kfoury

 

Liliane Kfoury has an MA in economic and social history and is the head of the research program on memory in the Centre d’Etudes pour le Monde Arabe Moderne at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Her research focuses on migration, borders, identity issues and cultural heritage.
 

Sune Haugbølle

Sune Haugbølle is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Copenhagen University. He has written extensively on Lebanon and is the author of War and Memory in Lebanon (Cambridge University Press, 2010). His work also deals with truth and reconciliation in the Middle East.

Whose Lebanon? A post-war history of people, power and peace initiatives

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
In this article, Accord 24 co-editors Alexander Ramsbotham and Elizabeth Picard offer a brief reflection on Lebanon's recent history. They outline the challenges facing a durable peace in Lebanon, including a lack of political reform, threats to Lebanese sovereignty, and an inegalitarian economic development.

Looking back to move forward in Lebanon

Lebanon’s model of post-war power sharing and liberal economic growth has been widely praised, but it has failed to deliver for most people. More than 20 years on from the Taif agreement that ended the civil war, Lebanon is not a post-conflict society. Our new Accord analysis – which comes as insecurity in Syria poses a renewed threat to Lebanon’s precarious stability – examines options for developing a more positive peace. An accompanying policy brief sets out priorities for change.

Introduction - Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciling society; reforming the state; realising sovereignty

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
Accord 24 co-editors Elizabeth Picard and Alexander Ramsbotham provide an introduction to the publication, offering a brief elaboration on the structure and principal themes of the publication, and introducing the focus of the publication's subsequent articles.

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