United Nations and Palestine
16 October 2025. From 18:30 | Conference | English | IEMed
A debate co-organised by Áula Árabe Universitaria, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CEARC) and IEMed within the framework of the Aula Mediterrània lecture series with:
Sonia Boulos is an Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and International Relations, Nebrija University. She holds a Doctorate in Juridical Science from the University of Notre Dame (USA), obtained through a Fullbright grant. The international protection of human rights is her main field of research. In addition to participating in several international and national research projects, she has served as the Principal Investigator of the Nebrija team, in two European research projects funded under the Horizon 2020 program. She is the Principal Investigator of SEGERICO (Research Group on Security, Risk and Conflict Management), also at Nebrija University. Outside this institution, she is part of the Security in Context research network and co-editor of Palestine/Israel Review, published by Pennsylvania State University.
Recent publications include “The “G Word,” Liberal Israeli Elites, and the Prospect of Decolonization (Journal of Genocide Research); Smokescreen Recognition: How “Statehood” Can Mask Complicity and Contain Decolonization (Security in Context) and ¿Puede existir ciudadanía sin derecho a la autodeterminación?: el caso de los palestinos en Israel (Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos).
Ardi Imseis is a scholar and practitioner of public international law. He is currently an Associate Professor at Faculty of Law at Queen’s University (appointed in 2018). Before joining academia. He spent twelve-year career with the United Nations in the Middle East, serving first with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and later as a Member of the UN commission of inquiry on Yemen (2019-2021). He has served as legal counsel and advocate in cases before the International Court of Justice His main areas of research include International Law, the question of Palestine, and the role of the United Nations in the development and enforcement of International Law. One of his most well-known publications is the book The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Mutaz M. Qafisheh is Professor of International Law and the founding and former Dean of Hebron University College of Law and Political Science, Palestine. He established 14 legal clinics at Hebron University. He also advises several organizations, including the United Nations and Palestine Liberation Organization. In the past he has worked as Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Beirut, and Ramallah. He was director of Legal Education for Palestine Law Schools, Jerusalem, and Legal Advisor for Palestinian Parliament. He has also authored and edited six books and some 50 peer-reviewed articles published by international publishers and journals. Currently, he chairs the Board of Trustees of UK-based Law for Palestine Organization and is Deputy President of the Palestinian Research Council.
Qafisheh’s research relates to International Law generally, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, migrations, refugees, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Law of the Sea, among others.
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