PASSIA is not affiliated with any government, political party or or ­ ganization, and maintains a completely independent financial and legal inde ­ pendent status.

A major component of PASSIA ’ s activities is its Roundtable Meetings Program, and with over 100 publications to its credit, many of which include the minutes of these meetings, PASSIA has proved most successful at promoting understanding of international relations as they affect the Palestinian struggle for justice and peace.

As part of its Religious Studies Unit PASSIA also holds regular meetings with religious leaders ( mainly local Muslim and Chris ­ tian dignitaries, but also involving Jews and foreign scholars ) in an effort to foster schol ­ arly under ­ standing.

Considered to be of equal importance by those familiar with PASSIA ’ s activities is its Semi ­ nar Program, which provides a much-needed venue for Palestinian graduates to benefit from the ex ­ perience and knowledge of local and foreign experts of the highest caliber.

PASSIA ’ s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: In ­ ternational Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democ ­ racy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Com ­ munication Skills.

In these meetings, as during all other events held at PASSIA, it is the desire to promote communication, coop ­ eration and coordi ­ nation between those with an interest in the fate of this region that overrides any other con ­ sidera ­ tion, and which inevitably results in a dia ­ logue that is as stimulating as it is productive.

Now in its 25th year, PASSIA is proud to be able to say that its publications have become a sought-after reference source for academics, diplomats, professionals, libraries and anyone with an interest in Palestine, the field of international affairs, and developments in the Middle East.

PASSIA hosts regular work ­ shops that address different but inter-connected issues pertaining to Je ­ rusalem, such as freedom of access, Israeli settlements, and the various religious, politi ­ cal, cultural, historical, and civil as ­ pects of life in the city, in addition to municipal ar ­ rangements for Jeru ­ salem as the capital of two independent states.

From the beginning, PASSIA has dedicated a large part of its various program and project activities to the provision of background information, in-depth studies and documentation on issues of concern, as well as the promotion of a better understanding of the Palestinian cause.

PASSIA seeks to present the Palestine Question in its national, Arab and international contexts through academic research, dialogue, education, documentation and publication.

The authors of PASSIA pub lica tions throughout the years have been as diverse as the subjects cov ered and include Palestinian, Arab, Israeli and inter national academics, scholars and experts.

) Training and Education in International Affairs ( proceedings of PASSIA seminars on international affairs ), ( III.

The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs ( PASSIA ) was founded in Jerusalem in March 1987 by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi and a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals.

It is also the fo ­ cus of the majority of PASSIA ’ s activities due, in part, to its centrality to the Palestin ­ ian-Israeli struggle and the now inevitable establishment of a Palestinian state.

* PASSIA Diaries and Annual Reports: Every year since 1988, PASSIA publishes its “ Diary ”, a unique annual resource book combining a comprehensive directory of contact information for Palestinian and interna tional institu tions operating in Palestine, a day-to-day calendar, and an agenda containing facts and figures, graphs, statistics, chronologies and maps related to Palestine and the Palestinians.

PASSIA works to achieve its goals through the implementation of the following regular programs: Research, Dialogue, Training and Education in International Affairs, Civil Society Empowerment, Religious Studies, the Question of Jerusalem, and the annual PASSIA Diary.

* Research Studies: Studies – in English or Arabic-conducted by researchers commissioned by PASSIA on a huge diversity of subjects relevant to the Palestine Question.

PASSIA publications aim to be specialized, scientific and objective, yet they often address controversial or neglected issues and allow the expression of a wide range of perspectives.

* Meetings and Seminar Proceedings: Occasional compilations containing full length or summarized versions of lectures and presentations given at PASSIA during a certain period or as part of a special project.

PASSIA ’ s Annual Reports contain information on PASSIA projects, ongoing activities and research, as well as other work undertaken by or involving PASSIA each year.

Yet his concern even here is with a slowly changing socio-economic order in general, and he never deals with such specific aspects of this change as the urban and industrial impact.

after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

Before them stalked the beadle, proclaiming as he went, `` Thus the Council deals with those who break its laws -- adulterers, thieves, murderers, and lewd persons.

Third, the upper portion deals with only two indicators of developmental level, Onset and Completion.

We have chosen to give it at the end of the section since it deals with differential equations and thus is not purely linear algebra.

One other paper deals with a phonologic problem: Vowel Harmony In Igbo, by J. Carnochan.

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The earlier part of my statement deals with the court orders that resulted in desegregation.

Volume 1, deals with 2991 compounds belonging to the tetragonal, hexagonal and trigonal, and orthorhombic systems ; ;

Part 1, deals with the classification of crystalline substances by space groups and is not a numerical data compilation.

The situation in which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which deals with the Salem witch trials.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be.

Additionally, he further illustrates the human reaction towards the " absurd "; The Plague represents how the world deals with the philosophical notion of the Absurd, a theory which Camus himself helped to define.

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

Category theory deals with abstract objects and morphisms between those objects.

Garuda Purana, a book solely deals with what happens to a person after death.

Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.

However, physicists distinguish between atomic physics — which deals with the atom as a system consisting of a nucleus and electrons — and nuclear physics, which considers atomic nuclei alone.

The school deals primarily with the premodern world ( before the French Revolution ), with little interest in later topics.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

The remaining twenty pieces cover problems in physics and ethics, of which the largest group deals with questions of vision and light, and the final four with fate and providence.