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Talk from the Second Annual Conference of Research Centers in the Arab World, Doha, Qatar, 7-9 December 2013, The Palestinian Cause And The Future Of The Palestinian National Movement
Richard Falk
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or coauthor of over 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Since 2005 he chairs the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
A brief look at some of those situations of conflict that generate particular concern at this time
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