The following message came through the CampusConsultNet Service to students, faculty and the community. Mrs. Wanner, a student of Political Science at the University in Salzburg can be reached at sonja.wanner@sbg.at

Ladies/Gentlemen:

My name is Sonja Wanner and I’m writing my diploma in political science about the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) to show how and why this organization failed to adequately handel the refugees and their problems. My working title is “UNRWA – From Humanism to Terrorism”. Because there are only few academic research papers/books or studies about this organization in English or German available and because the whole archive of the UNRWA has moved to Ramallah, I have only the internet-presentation of the UNRWA and some (old) books as resources.

The resources I do have (preliminary bibliography) are:

Books:

Dr. Walter Pinner, “The Legend of Arab Refugees” (1967)
Yearbooks of the UN from 1946 to 2002 and the UNRWA incomplete internet service
Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel
Lex Takkenberg, The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law
Helena Lindholm Schulz, Juliane Hammer; The Palestinian Diaspora: Formation of Identities and Politics of Homeland
Yezid Sayigh; Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
Francis A. Boyle; Palestine, Palestinians and International Law
J. W. Wright; Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process: Historical Contexts
Shaul Mishal, Avraham Sela; The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence
Meron Benvenisti; The West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel’s Policies
Don Peretz; Palestinians, Refugees and the Middle East Peace Process
Don Peretz; Israel and the Palestine Arabs
Donald R. Taft, Richard Robbins; International Migrations: The Immigrant in the Modern World
Augustus Richard Norton; Hizballah: from Radicalism to Pragmatism?
Emmanuel Sivan; Religious Radicalism and Politics in the Middle East
Samir Khalaf; Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of
Communal Contact
L. K. Hyde Jr.; The United States and the United Nations, Promoting the Public Welfare: Examples of American Co-Operation, 1945-1955
Gil Loescher; Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis
Thomas M. Franck; Nation against Nation: What Happened to the U.N. Dream and What the U.S. Can Do about It
John George Stoessinger; The Refugee and the World Community
Shlomo Gazit; Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories
George L. Harris, Moukhtar Ani, Mildred C. Bigelow, John Cookson, Sheila C. Gillen, George A. Lipsky, Charles H. Royce, Alex H. Westfried, Percy Winner; Jordan, Its People Its Society, Its Culture
Amnon Cohen; Political Parties in the West Bank under the Jordanian Regime, 1949-1967
Aref Abu-Rabia; The Long Walk III-Pastoral Nomads and Anthropology: An Interview with Emanuel Marx
P. Edward Haley, Lewis W. Snider; Lebanon in Crisis, Participants and Issues
Naomi Joy Weinberger; Syrian Intervention in Lebanon: The 1975-1976 Civil War

Magazines/Journals and Newspaper articles:

UN: Patron of Palestinian Terrorism, The New American, Vol. 18
Archive of the NYT
Sectarian Attitudes as a Function of the Palestinian Presence in Lebanon, Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 22
Power in Numbers: A Call for a Census of the Palestinian People, Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 18
U.S. Economic Aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the Politics of Peace, Middle East Policy, Vol. 4
Palestine Post online archive

So my request is: who can help with resources about the the different aspects of UNRWA, as:

Statistics
Political theory
History
Law (status of refugees, status of refugee camps etc., status of UNRWA)
Comparison between UNHCR and UNRWA
Weapons and refugee camps
Terror-organizations and the camps
Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and the camps

Thank you very much in advance for any help.

Respectfully yours

Sonja Wanner