{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64523cd4476bb50011d58871/667a6f9ba2475610ca57816e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Intractable State Formation Projects: Israel and Palestine in a Comparative Regional Perspective","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64523cd4476bb50011d58871/1719299983311-cc1ff44b11699d34bb71c599540a918a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Developments in Palestine between 1905 and 1948 can be analysed with reference to increasing tensions between two different colonial pacts emerging in the same territory. One was between Britain and the Palestinians, the other was between Britain and the Zionist movement.</p><p><br></p><p>In this seminar, the dual process of state formation in the Levant is compared with other processes of state formation in the region at the same time, in particular with settler colonialism in Algeria and with the kinds of colonial pacts that evolved in other states formed in the former Ottoman Arab area (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq).</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Speakers</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/personer/tilkn/fen/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fredrik Engelstad</a>, Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo and Institute for Social Research</li><li><a href=\"https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/personer/vit/larsmj/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lars Mjøset</a>, Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo</li><li><a href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TvltAAC/andrew-bennett\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Bennet</a>, Professor, Georgetown University</li><li><a href=\"https://www.jus.uio.no/smr/personer/vit/stvnb1/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nils Butenschön</a>, Professor,&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.jus.uio.no/smr/english\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Norwegian Centre for Human Rights</a>, University of Oslo</li><li><a href=\"https://www.hiof.no/hvo/vlo/personer/und-forsk-ansatte/raniamak/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rania Maktabi</a>, Associate Professor, Østfold University College</li></ul><p>The panel discussion will be moderated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.prio.org/people/3472\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kristian Berg Harpviken</a>, Research Professor, PRIO</p><p><br></p><p><em>This event was co-hosted by&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://mideast.prio.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>the PRIO Middle East Centre</em></a><em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Institute for Social Research</em></a><em>.</em></p>","author_name":"Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)"}