Dr. TARIQ MUKHIMER - Bank of Ireland Fellow

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Currently working for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as a Human Rights Officer, Dr. Mukhimer earned his BA in economic and political science from Bir Zeit University, West Bank, in 1995. He completed a Masters in Public Administration and Organization Theory from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1997, and his PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 2005.

In 2011 Dr. Mukhimer was granted a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and in September of the same year he joined the Centre on a career-break from the OHCHR. Dr. Mukhimer has a deep experience of human rights investigation and reporting. He worked with the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict led by Judge Richard Goldstone in 2009, and with the International Commission of Inquiry on Libya led by Mr. Charif Bassiouni in 2011.  His main research area is “ Non-State Actors and International Human Rights Law”. In this context, Dr. Mukhimer is undertaking a piece of research at the centre titled: Hamas Rule of Gaza: Human Rights Perspective. The research seeks to analyse the mechanisms of Hamas’ interaction with Gaza’s civil society, and to show how such mechanisms were shaped and determined by a number of constraints, with relation particularly to the rights to life and security, freedom from torture, freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and freedom of association.

Dr Mukhimer will also deliver a Series of Seminars on

“The Palestinian Question: In search of a state”

The course will engage issues related to Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Palestinian search for a state since the beginning of the 20^thcentury to date. These include:

• Historical backdrop  to the conflict
• The establishment of the Jewish state in Palestine,
• The rise of Palestinian nationalism in 1950s and 1960s,
• The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967,
• The Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the subsequent rise of the Palestinian authority in 1994, the Gaza disengagement plan of 2005,
• The rise of Hamas to the political power in 2006 and the subsequent Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007,
• The Palestinian political system on the light of the political split between the PA in Ramallah and Hamas authority in Gaza, the Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and the Gaza’s blockade.

Sessions of the course will be launched on  13 February at 12:30 – 2pm, and will continue to take place at the following dates and times

Friday 17 February, at 17:00-18:30

Monday 20 February, at 12:30-14:00

Monday 27 February, at 12:30-14:00

Friday 2 March, at 17:00-18:30

Monday 5 March, at 12:30-14:00

Thursday 8 March, at 18:00-19:30

Monday 12 March, at 12:30-14:00

Friday, 16 March, at 17:00-18:30

Monday, 19 March, at 12:30-14:00

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