Balfour Project: Peace, Justice and Equal Rights in Palestine/Israel

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs who lives in Washington DC. In 1984, Cambridge U.P. published her seminal study The Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Three of her six other sole-authored books dealt with political and strategic developments in the Arab-Israeli theatre, the rest with more global matters. For 17 years she contributed a regular column on global issues to The Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London). In 2010 she founded Just World Books, which has published ground-breaking titles by Palestinian, Zionism-questioning Jewish, and other authors; and in 2016 she was a co-founder of Just World Educational, which she now serves as president. Her most recent book, co-authored with Rami G. Khouri, is Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters (OR Books, 2024.)

Sir Vincent Fean on Times Radio on 8 October 2024

Tamara El-Halawani is a research assistant at the SOAS ICOP project and a recent MSc graduate in International Politics from SOAS University, London. She is currently completing a dissertation on ‘The Erasure of Palestinians on social media.’ Prior to joining ICOP, she worked as a reporter for The Conduit in London and served as a parliamentary staffer for her local constituency in the House of Commons. Tamara also holds a BSc (Hons) in Molecular Genetics from the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Zahira Jaser is an Italian-Palestinian Associate Professor at the University of Sussex Business School. She is the Director of the MBA programme. She has been researching the impact of anti-Palestinian racism in organisations and society. Her research and writings have been featured in Science, the Financial Times, The Guardian, the BBC, Wired, the Harvard Business Review and many academic journals. She holds a PhD in Management from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) and a MSc in Organisational Behaviour from the London School of Economics, and received her BA with honours in Political Science and Economics from Università Di Padova, Italy.

with Kristyan Benedict, Crisis Response Manager for Amnesty International UK

Kristyan Benedict manages Amnesty International UK’s Crisis Response Programme, focusing on armed conflict, mass repression, and UK foreign policy. His work has involved working with and supporting activists and human rights defenders from a range of countries and regions, including Israel/Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, China, and Myanmar. He’s worked on Israel/Palestine at a high level since the early 2000s, with a particular focus on justice and accountability and developing the End Israeli Apartheid Campaign.

Dr Phyllis Starkey (Vice Chair, Balfour

Closing Statement -Dr Phyllis Starkey

Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there

How young people bring about change—The Balfour

Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there

Keynote Speaker – The UN, Human Rights and Gaza Dr Agnès

Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there

The Gaza War: A Humanitarian Disaster with

Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there

The challenges ahead

Part of our Peace with Justice – how to get there