PhD defence by Libby Leher

Her research focuses on the 1993 Oslo I Peace Accord aimed to promote economic development in the Palestinian Occupied Territories by enhancing economic interdependence, as the way forward to overcome the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and achieve a lasting peace. 

As part of the Oslo I Accord, the agreement regulating the interim economic arrangement between Israel and Palestine was signed on 29 April 1994. This agreement, The Protocol on Economic Relations to the Oslo Accords (commonly known as Paris Protocol) established the legal framework of the bilateral economic relations between the conflicting sides, and in many ways regulated the de facto economic regime already in place since the 1967 Occupation into a de jure one.

She presents a pathway to peace through an economic diplomacy framework that incorporates economic interdependence and incentives, and international law, i.e., positive sanctions and international law.

Doctoral Board

Chair

Professor Ruard Ganzevoort

Doctoral dissertation supervisor

Professr Peter van Bergeijk
Professor Nico Schrijver, Leiden University
Dr Binyam Demena

Full Doctoral Committee

• Dr Sajjad Faraji Dizaji, Tarbiat Modares University
• Professor Karène Sanchez-Summerer, University of Groningen
• Professor Jaap de Wilde, University of Groningen
• Professor Martijn Eickhoff, University of Groningen
• Professor Emeritus Jan Pronk 
• Dr Georgina Gomez
• Dr Elissaios Papyrakis