1st Edition

What Lies Ahead? Canada’s Engagement with the Middle East Peace Process and the Palestinians

Edited By Jeremy Wildeman, Emma Swan Copyright 2022
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

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, as chair of the Refugee Working Group, and sponsor of Track II negotiations. This all changed after a significant mid-2000s discursive and policy... Read more

1. Talking with the PLO: Overcoming political challenges 
Andrew N. Robinson 
2. False start: the 1956 Palestinian refugee movement to Canada 
Michael Molloy 
3. Has President Trump killed the Middle East Peace Process? 
David Viveash 
4. Assessing Canada’s foreign policy approach to the Palestinians and Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding, 1979–2019 
Jeremy Wildeman 
5. The international community's role and impact on the Middle East Peace Process 
Michael Atallah 
6. Canada, the United Nations, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 
Amelia C. Arsenault and Costanza Musu 
7. "The personal is political!": exploring the limits of Canada’s feminist international assistance policy under occupation and blockade 
Emma Swan 
8. Canada’s economic assistance to the OPT: ideology, politics, and flawed responses 
Ruby Dagher 
9. Normative Canadian foreign policy towards consensus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 
Timea Spitka 

Biography

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.