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This edited volume explores Canada's foreign policy relationship with the Palestinians and broader Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). Canada was intensively involved from 1992 to 2000 in peacebuilding as a mediator in the multilateral part of the MEPP.
List of contents
1. Talking with the PLO: Overcoming political challenges 2. False start: the 1956 Palestinian refugee movement to Canada 3. Has President Trump killed the Middle East Peace Process? 4. Assessing Canada's foreign policy approach to the Palestinians and Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, 1979-2019 5. The international community's role and impact on the Middle East Peace Process 6. Canada, the United Nations, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 7. "The personal is political!": exploring the limits of Canada's feminist international assistance policy under occupation and blockade 8. Canada's economic assistance to the OPT: ideology, politics, and flawed responses 9. Normative Canadian foreign policy towards consensus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
About the author
Jeremy Wildeman, PhD (Exon), is Fellow at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, and adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Queens University. At the universities of Exeter, Bath and Ottawa, he has carried out major research projects on foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, human rights in the Middle East, and Canada's relationship to the Middle East.
Emma Swan is Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and doctoral candidate at the University of Ottawa. Emma has consulted for several organizations in the Middle East and is interested in contributing to conversations seeking to articulate gendered power dynamics and exploring the role they play in shaping policy/practice.
Summary
This edited volume explores Canada’s foreign policy relationship with the Palestinians and broader Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). Canada was intensively involved from 1992 to 2000 in peacebuilding as a mediator in the multilateral part of the MEPP.
