MF CASR Lunch with Nadim Khoury

Oslo Peace Process and the Politics of Memory

In September 1993, the PLO and Israel signed the Declaration of Principles, inaugurating the Oslo peace process. According to its architects, proponents, and critics alike, the process was premised on putting history aside.  In this talk, Nadim Khoury challenges this prevailing narrative and explores the politics of memory constructed by the peace process. He argues that negotiators, mediators, international organizations, and NGOs made history by setting a specific kind of memory politics in motion, focused on productive forgetting, narrative borders, mnemonic fronts, and counter-memory.

Nadim Khoury is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Philosophy, and International Studies at the Inland School of Business and Social Sciences (INN), where he teaches courses in the history of political thought and international relations.