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Land of Blue Helmets
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Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Karim Makdisi and Vijay Prashad
pa rt on e
di plom ac y
1 • The Role of the UN Secretary-General:
A Historical Assessment 21
Andrew Gilmour
2 • Palestine, the Third World, and the UN as
Seen from a Special Commission 58
Lori Allen
3 On Behalf of the United Nations: Serving as
•
pa rt t h r e e
h u m a n i ta r i a n ism a n d r e f uge es
11 • The UN Human Rights Game and the Arab Region:
Playing Not to Lose 253
Fateh Azzam
12 • The Politics of the Sanctions on Iraq and the
UN Humanitarian Exception 278
Hans-Christof von Sponeck
13 • An Agency for the Palestinians? 301
Jalal Al Husseini
14 •Challenged but Steadfast: Nine Years with Palestinian
Refugees and the UN Relief and Works Agency 318
Filippo Grandi
15 • The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the
Iraq Refugee Operation: Resettling Refugees, Shifting the
Middle East Humanitarian Landscape 335
Arafat Jamal
16 • The Syrian Refugee Crisis in the Middle East 359
Shaden Khallaf
17 • The Middle East: A Mandatory Return to
Humanitarian Action 372
Caroline Abu Sa’Da
pa rt fou r
de v e l opm e n t
18 • The UN, the Economic and Social Commission for
West Asia, and Development in the Arab World 389
Omar Dahi
19 • The United Nations, Palestine, Liberation,
and Development 409
Raja Khalidi
20 • Peacebuilding in Palestine: Western Strategies in the
Context of Colonization 430
Mandy Turner
21 • The International Labour Organization and
Workers’ Rights in the Arab Region:
The Need to Return to Basics 448
Walid Hamdan
22 • Peacekeeping, Development, and Counterinsurgency:
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and
“Quick Impact Projects” 460
Susann Kassem
23 • The Protective Shields: Civil Society Organizations and
the UN in the Arab Region 481
Kinda Mohamadieh
This book grew out of the United Nations in the Arab World research pro-
gram directed by Karim Makdisi at the American University of Beirut’s
(AUB’s) Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
(IFI). Thanks to the platform offered by IFI, the reputation of the AUB, and
the dynamism of Beirut, scholars, students, affi liates, UN practitioners, dip-
lomats and the general public mingled to explore and argue over the UN
legacy and politics in the region.
We would like to acknowledge a number of people at IFI for their support.
Rami Khouri—founding director of the IFI—facilitated the creation of the
UN program, dug into his considerable networks, and ensured the uninter-
rupted funding of the program. Tarek Mitri, who succeeded Rami as IFI
director as this book was taking off, shared his experience in, and knowledge
of, the UN. Sarine Karajerjian’s support in all administrative and financial
aspects of the program was exemplary from the start. Dania Abbas, Rima
Rassi, Rayan El-Amine, Nasser Yassin, Amir Richany, Zaki Boulos, Rabih
Mahmassani, and Michael Huijer have all been of great assistance. Finally, and
most importantly, we have relied on and benefited from the excellent UN in
the Arab World program managers (and former AUB students) Muneira
Hoballah, Susann Kassem, and Samar Ghanem, as well as a number of capable
research assistants. They have been meticulous and stimulating colleagues.
For this book, special thanks and deep gratitude must go to Samar
Ghanem. She often participated in the early brainstorming sessions with us,
helped organize the book structure, read many of the chapters, and followed
up diligently with the contributors.
Karim is grateful to Vijay, who first joined IFI’s UN in the Arab World
program as a senior fellow in 2014 and quickly worked his magic. Vijay’s
ix
warm friendship, incredible enthusiasm, and infectious positivity have been
invaluable. Karim thanks all the contributors, many of whom are colleagues
and friends, for their fine essays, their valuable insights, and their goodwill
during this long process. All my friends at the UN have shared their many
experiences with me and sharpened my understanding of this “indispensable”
institution, and I am grateful for that. To Filippo Grandi, thanks for spending
your sabbatical year from the UN with us and for all the stimulating discus-
sions and insights. To my dear friend Georges Nasr: you were taken much too
early from your family and friends, and you are deeply missed. You exempli-
fied all that is noble about service to the UN and all that is good in us.
Tamerian and Dannoush, thanks for the support. Finally, Karim is very for-
tunate for the constant support of his parents Jean and Samir, his brothers
Saree and Ussama, and above all his amazing wife Hala and daughters Layla
and Iman. This is for them.
Vijay thanks Karim for bringing him along for the ride, introducing him
to the world of the United Nations in the region, and helping him better
understand the complexities of this institution. He is especially grateful to
Rima Khalaf for her wise counsel. Nada al-Nashif, Walid Hamdan, Raja
Khalidi, Rabi Bashour, Mustafa Said, and Omar Dahi played a central role
in helping him find hope where none seemed possible. For Lisa, Zalia, and
Rosa, again.
x • ac k now l e d g m e n t s
a bbr ev i at ions
xi
HDI Human Development Index
HRC Human Rights Council
HRW Human Rights Watch
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IBSA India, Brazil, and South Africa
ICC International Criminal Court
ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights
ICESCR International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights
ICPPED International Convention for the
Protection of All Persons from Enforced
Disappearance
ICRC International Committee of the Red
Cross
ICRMW International Convention on the
Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers and Members of Their Families
IFIs international financial institutions
IHL international humanitarian law
ILO International Labour Organization
IMF International Monetary Fund
IS Islamic State
ISIL Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
LAF Lebanese Armed Forces
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MSF Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors
without Borders
NAM Nonaligned Movement
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NFZ No-Fly Zone
NGO nongovernmental organization
NIEO New International Economic Order
OCHA Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs
IS RA EL IRAQ
A le xand ria Port 'Amman
Said
30°
Cairo Suez JORDAN Al
Al 'Aq aba h
LIBYA
Al M in ya
As yut
EGYPT
25°
As wan Medi na
S A U D I A R A BR A
Jedd ah Mecca
20°
Red
Sea
SUDAN
-
Jizan
15° Khartoum
ERITREA Sanaa Sa
Asmara (San'a' (Sa
The boundaries and names shown and the designations used
on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by Al Hudaydahdayd
the United Nations.
* Final boundary between the Republic of the Sudan and the Republic
of South Sudan has not yet been determined.
Ad
DJIBOUTI I
Djibouti outi
10° ET HIO PIA
map 1. Middle East, Map No. 4102 Rev.5, November 2011. Courtesy of the United Nations.
among the P5, and between the P5 and the rest of the member states of the
UN. It is, in the final analysis, the politics of the member states that has
limited the potential of the United Nations as an institution.
Over the past sixty years, the politics of the United Nations has depended
upon the vicissitudes of global geopolitics. The historian Mark Mazower has
traced the very idea of the UN to the British Empire’s vision of world order
embodied eventually through the creation of the League of Nations and then
reborn in San Francisco in 1945.10 Palestine’s partition exemplified this order.
In the throes of the Cold War, however, the animosity between the West and
the East and the avenues for democracy in the United Nations system allowed
the newly independent and assertive nations to insert their anti-imperial
agenda into the interstices of the agencies and into the General Assembly.11
The Cold War between the United States and the USSR cooled the bon-
homie of the early years in the UN. The USSR largely withdrew from the fray,
taking the view that the West had already dominated the institutions. The
main tussle in the UN in these early decades was, therefore, not between
the United States and the USSR—which is what is almost always the
assumption—but between the West and the Third World. There is no better
testimony to this than the emergence of the Nonaligned Movement (1961), the
UN Conference on Trade and Development (1964), and the Group of 77
(1964), the bloc of the South. These institutions—one of which was a UN
specialized agency—would be the main sources of pressure on the West.
The main arena of conflict was over the ideas of economic development,
as represented by the General Assembly’s Declaration for the Establishment
of a New International Economic Order (1974), which was rejected by the
Western bloc.
With the collapse of the USSR and the global debt crisis of the 1980s, the
West seized power over the management of world affairs. Under the name of
globalization, the West was able to push an ideological agenda in the various
development agencies. The creation of the World Trade Organization and
the marginalization of the UN Conference on Trade and Development illus-
trate this. By asserting itself through human rights interventionism, the West
was able to bend the UN Security Council to its view of dangers in the world.
The long conflict with Iraq from 1990 to the present highlights this. Political
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