16.3.3 Participation in government research
1- Department of Political Science holds seminar on Israeli elections
The Department of Political Science and the Master Program in Public and Cultural Diplomacy held a seminar entitled: "Israeli Elections, Reading the Results". This seminar comes to discuss Israel's internal variables and their impact on the Palestinian cause. The seminar addressed three main interventions on the elections and their results, and was attended by dozens of students from different faculties at the university.
2- Hebron University and Independent Commission for Human Rights organize Seminar on Role of Media in Promoting Civil Rights
In the context of their efforts to promote media freedoms and civil and political rights in Palestine, the Media Department and the Independent Commission for Human Rights organized a seminar entitled "Media Freedoms in the Light of the Information Society" in the presence of Mr. Islam Al-Tamimi, Director of Awareness, Training and Advocacy at the Independent Commission, and Mr. Alaa Ghaith, field researcher in the Independent Commission, faculty members in the Department of Media and Applied Geography, and a number of students of media and applied geography.
3- Publishing a Peer-Reviewed Article on the Special Law for Palestinian Refugees
Dr. Mutaz M. Qafisheh, Associate Professor of International Law at the College of Law and Political Science of Hebron University has led the publication of a peer-reviewed article, titled ‘The Lex Specialis Regime Pertinent to Palestinian Refugees’, in Global Jurist (a Scopus-listed journal, Cite-Score 0.7), Berlin and Boston, October 2022, along with Dr. Rama Sahtout, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK; Ms. Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Geneva, Switzerland; and Dr. Lex Takkenberg, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development, Amman, Jordan, and Fordham University, USA