Background Papers

Overcoming Direct and Structural Violence: Truth and Peacemaking in the Palestinian Experience
Sabeel Document No. 2, 2004
By Jean Zaru, the presiding clerk of the Ramllah Friends Meeting (Quakers) in Palestine.

Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict
(Reprinted with permission from "Truth and Reconciliation: Voices for Peace in the Holy Land," Canadian Friends of Sabeel, Ottawa, 1999.)
By John Sigler, Adjunct Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The Wall and the Settlements
(Published in Implementing the ICJ Advisory Opinion (New York: United Nations, 2005)
By Michael Lynk, who teaches law at the University of Western Ontario and served with the United Nations in the West Bank in 1989.

Israel, the Wall and International Law
By Michael Lynk, who teaches law at the University of Western Ontario and served with the United Nations in the West Bank in 1989.

Settling the Law: International Law and the Israeli Settlements
September 2004
By Michael Lynk, who teaches law at the University of Western Ontario and served with the United Nations in the West Bank in 1989.