Gaza Symposium: Health, Human Security and Welfare in the Gaza Strip
Saturday 29 March 2008
12:00 - 4:30 PM
12:00 - 12:15 Registration and refreshments
12:15 - 12:20 Welcome and Framing of the Symposium
Hilary Rantisi, Director, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
12:20 - 12:40 Introduction to Health, Human Security and Welfare in the Gaza Strip
Sara Roy, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,Harvard University
12:45 - 1:30 Gaza and the Political Equation
Rami Khouri, Editor-at-large, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, Dubai Initiative Fellow (HKS), 2002 Nieman Fellow
1:40 - 2:25 Human Security and the Gaza 2010 Project
Naz Modirzadeh, Senior Associate at HPCR (The Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research) at the Harvard School of Public Health
2:25 - 2:35 Two short films on the political economy of agriculture and fishing in the Gaza Strip
By Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2:45 - 3:30 Arrested Development: Control over Gazans
Darryl Li, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
3:40 - 4:30 Health conditions and services in the Gaza Strip
Deema Al-Arafah, Harvard Medical School
Supporting Health and Human Security in Gaza, from Boston
Nancy Murray, President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation, Inc.
RESOURCES on Gaza from the Symposium
Reports
Gaza: One Big Prison
B’Tselem, March 2005
www.btselem.org/Download/200705_Gaza_Insert_eng.pdf
The Gaza Strip: A Humanitarian Implosion
Amnesty International, CARE International UK, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Médecins du Monde UK, Oxfam, Save The Children UK and Trócaire; 6 March 2008
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/oxfam_gaza_lowres.pdf
The Occupied Palestinian Territories: Dignity Denied
International Community of the Red Cross, 13 December 2007
http://www.icrc.org/eng/palestine-report
Population Projections for Socioeconomic Development in the Gaza Strip
Gaza 2010 Project, Harvard School of Public Health; June 2006
http://www.hpcr.org/pdfs/HPCR_-_Working_Paper_No_1_-_Demography.pdf
World Health Organization recent reports on Gaza
http://www.who.int/hac/crises/international/wbgs/en/index.html
http://www.emro.who.int/palestine/
Books
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Co, 1999 (original title: Lishtot mehayam shel’Aaza, 1996)
Roy, Sara. Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2007
Roy, Sara. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2001.
Symposium Materials
Schedule
Speaker Biographies
Map of Gaza
Speaker Presentations and Articles
Sara Roy - Article to be published soon as the introduction to The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, Volume XIV, 2008
Rami Khouri - Rami Khouri's profile at the Harvard Kennedy School, including links to articles
Darryl Li - Arrested Development: Control Over Gazans
Nancy Murray - Supporting Health and Human Security in Gaza, from Boston
