The Palestinian struggle  for  liberation have gone through a shift in the last two decades, after the signing of the Oslo agreement between the Israeli government and the PLO. The Oslo agreement was signed in 1993 and was meant to be an interim agreement which grants Palestinians some sort of an autonomy, leaving some issues for future negotiations.  
Palestinians have soon realized that the Oslo agreement wasn’t a „peace agreement“ but rather a well architected process to weaken the Palestinian will to resist, and turn the cause into a development issue. Abir Kopty will talk about the current situation, its probable future effects and how especially young  people  get involved in this process and to which extent social media play a role.  
Abir Kopty is  is a leading social, feminist and political activist born in Nazareth. She completed her BA at Haifa University in Economic and accountancy. She then moved to work in the media and communication field in Palestinian civil society organizations. In 2006-2007 she was a Chevening Scholar of the British Council and completed her MA in Political Communication at the City University of London. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carola Richter. Her research interest includes political participation and the New Media.
Plakat:
Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen der 15. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen statt. Veranstalter:  www.suedwindsalzburg.at